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Steam Deck Client Update 10/18/22

Yesterday, Valve pushed out a new update to the Steam Deck Client on the stable branch adding in some controller glyphs and more.

Yesterday, Valve pushed out a new update to the Steam Deck Client on the stable branch! This one adds in controller-specific glyphs to the lock screen, increased boot animation max length to 30 seconds, fixed a couple bugs, and more:

  • General
    • The Quick Access Menu will now open to the notifications tab when you have new friend chat messages, game invites, or voice chat invites
    • Notifications for Game Invites in the Quick Access Menu now have an option in the footer to accept them without having to navigate to the chat window
    • Added External Display Safe Mode to developer settings. When enabled, the next time an external display is plugged in Steam Deck will pick a low resolution configuration, which may help in some cases where the external display has issues.
    • Increase boot animation max length from 10 seconds to 30 seconds
    • Added controller-specific glyphs on the Lock screen
    • Don’t show the “switch to desktop” option in the power menu when the lock screen is active.
    • Fixed an issue where Steam group chats with long names or descriptions could cause break the layout of the chat screen
    • Fixed an issue on the Lock screen where you’d have to dismiss the On-Screen Keyboard manually if you slept the device while it was up
    • Fixed invoking the On-Screen-Keyboard while already in a full-screen keyboard input scenario causing bad behavior.
    • Fixed a case where the Performance Overlay would still show when set to off.
  • Steam Input
    • Restore the previous behavior of using stick deflection rather than the capacitive sensor for Radial Menus that don’t have center buttons bound
    • Fixed an in-game crash
    • Fixed an issue with editing command settings from inside the virtual menu screen

You can view the changelog and discussion over on Steam.

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A lover of gaming since 4, Noah has grown up with a love and passion for the industry. From there, he started to travel a lot and develop a joy for handheld and PC gaming. When the Steam Deck released, it just all clicked.

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