A new, opt-in only BETA for the Steam client has been made available a few days back. This update, which you can access within your Steam settings window, makes a number of improvements to connectivity and other community features.
- Initial Update
- Enabled ClearType fonts if they are enabled in Windows
- Improved in-game status and play time tracking for games with launcher apps
- Improved in-game overlay input handling in a variety of games that previously did not capture or block keyboard input correctly
- Added D3D10 support to the in-game overlay
- Made voice chat requests ignored if you've blocked communications from the caller
- Fixed the original Half-Life not getting to 100% complete downloading when it should
- Improved server selection logic for Friends and VAC server connections
- Improved Steam network connectivity in the face of dropped UDP packets
- Update 5/20/2008
- Fixed Guest and Gift Passes not showing up in the games list if you do not activate from the instant message
Update 5/20/2008
- Fixed Steam getting stuck when trying to launch certain games
Update 5/22/2008
- Improved overlay DirectX10 compatibility (Gears of War)
- Fixed the overlay not recognizing the Tab key in some games (breaking the default hot-key)
Update 5/22/2008
- Fixed unable to load Authentication Library error with GoldSrc games
- Improved Friends duplicate name collision detection
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