Steam Client Update Released (October 7, 2013)

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  • Steam Client Update Released (October 7, 2013)

    An update has come out today for the Steam client. It includes some performance improvements and more.

    Changelog for Steam client for October 7, 2013

    Steam
    - Improve connection ping for selecting Steam servers to connect to on logon
    - Improved performance when updating lots of games metadata on startup
    - Added "My Games" library filter in desktop UI in case games from other uses are visible
    - Fixed game “Purchase” button to open the game store page
    - Fixed a bug where the user counts for various groups could overwrite each other and the friends list group tab would show invalid counts
    - Fixed CS:GO “Inspect in Game…” links working
    - Fixed various Family Sharing UI issues

    Big Picture
    - Fixed your own avatar in the Friends view being squished vertically
    - Fixed top entry in friends list having clipped outer glow on focus
    - Fixed some languages running words together in labels containing partial HTML (mostly store product descriptions in Russian)
    - Fixed crash when dismissing the movie playback controls in the store
    - Fixed the position of the play button when launching a game
    - Improved reliability of loading store game pages when encountering network errors
    - Fixed Big Picture not starting if Steam is set to start on windows startup and to start in Big Picture mode
    - Fixed rare crash due to thread safety issue in some timing functions

    Windows
    - Fixed Asian text input method (IME) candidate list selection being off by one
    - Implemented Asian text input in Steam embedded browser, both in client and in the in-game Steam overlay
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