A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed Left 4 Dead 2 gifts not showing up in recipients games list until after redemption via email even if sent directly to the account
- Fixed steam client displaying "scanning for updates" while decrypting newly unlocked content
- Prevent client from displaying or allowing a user to select an unavailable language for a game
- Improve game installation progress display
- Fixed games sometimes spuriously launching after they get updated
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Updates to support Left 4 Dead 2
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Improved completing installation process
- Improved Steam Service repair process
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixes for Incomplete Installation(35) and (16) for Left 4 Dead 2 demo
- Improved reconnect to Steam logic during Steam Cloud synchronization
- Increased client side timeouts for Steam Cloud requests to improve reliability for users in remote locations
- Fixed a case where cloud files would believe they were up-to-date and not sync if you had been disconnected from Steam on a first machine, played elsewhere, then reconnected and run again on the first machine without restarting Steam
- Fixed a crash in the in-client web control if you hit backspace while a flash movie has focus
- Fixed a rare crash for users with long path names containing non-ascii characters
- Fixed a rare crash when failing an attempt to create a new account
- Only show Dragon Age CD keys that the user must manually enter into the Dragon Age site
- Fixed tab key press getting through overlay to game during shift-tab activation for games using win32 input messages
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed possible issues when launching the Left 4 Dead 2 Demo
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Improve the steam service update process
- Fix a case which could cause a decryption failure for newly released games
- Fixes a crash when the Left 4 Dead 2 Demo starts
- Fix a rare crash on receiving a chat message from a user you don't know as a direct friend
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- The Windows 7 Recently Played list should be repaired for people who play many games
- Friends Status now part of tasks on Windows 7, so they won't shuffle it away
- Fixed performance issues on Windows 7 for users with many friends and groups
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Steamworks improvements for upcoming titles
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed voice chat in Left 4 Dead lobbies
- Improved overlay screen size detection for D3D9 games with multiple swap chains with different size back buffers
- Fixed rare bug with retail installer which could significantly lengthen install time
- Fixed a crash on activation of a Left 4 Dead 2 4-pack gift
- Update Windows 7 video driver version detection
- Fix urls in chat windows sometimes not being clickable
- Fixed a case where incorrect achievement or avatar images are displayed
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed a crash in the chat introduction dialog
- Add SSE 3 and SSE 4 detection support to the hardware survey
- Overlay work to support upcoming games
- Steamworks API fixes
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed "Incomplete Installation" error for Bionic Commando and Terminator Salvation
- Updated Steam ticket expiration logic
- Fixed changing game language or validating game files not working for some games until restarting Steam
- Improved support for displaying third-party DLC CD keys
- Fixed mouse wheel scrolling in the store when intellipoint is installed
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A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed issue with scroll bars on HTML pages not showing after javascript DOM modification changed page height
- Fixed issue where Steam can not be closed after playing Section 8
- Fixed Champions Online keys not always being available when Steam first starts
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed regression in yesterday's Steam client update that caused some users to have problems with retail installs
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Added contact email account verification by request and on new account creation
- Improved account security with verified contact email to prevent phishing
- Added mod support for Killing Floor
- Fixed memory leak
- Added 'officers-only chat' mode to group chats
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Made connections to misbehaving content servers timeout and retry a new server correctly
- Fixed the client sometimes forgetting a game exists after a content update on Steam
- Fixed several rare crashes and memory corruption bugs
- Workaround for a Firefox 3.5 bug where they activate random windows after minimizing which would confuse the state of some Steam windows
- Fixed internet tab in the in-Steam ServerBrowser not updating sorting as more servers are refreshed
- Fixed the first time launch "Installing ..." dialog which is shown while installing things like DirectX for a game taking too much CPU and making the install take a long time
- Fixed the sorting of the games list to be case insensitive and fix the mini-games list to use the same sorting method as the full games list
- Fixed Change User menu option not logging you out correctly
- Fixed one case of downloads getting stuck
- Fixed a potential crash in D3D8 games switching between windowed and full screen caused by the in-game overlay
- Fixed unnecessary minidump when in offline mode
- Fixed overlay bug where opening the overlay from an in-game menu (ie, Invite Friends in a L4D lobby) could result in the overlay opening and closing immediately if you had previously used the "Close" button in the overlay itself
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Add D3D9Ex support for the in-game overlay (for ArmA 2)
- Fix unneeded assert/mdmp creation when Steam connection falls back to TCP
- Fix lobbies/chats trying to update metadata while disconnected from Steam servers
- View available downloadable content link on game's DLC tab now goes to game's DLC page in store
- Fix a potential memory leak with lots of friends notifications being triggered while a full screen window has covered the desktop
- Add a limit of queued friends notifications to show of no more than sixteen
- Fix a potential case of dropping input events in the in-game overlay
- Improved overlay compatibility with OSD from recent versions of RivaTuner
- Fixed Cloud sync issues when in offline mode
- Fixed filtering by a mod in the server browser making it unable to retrieve servers from the master server
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Improved Steam startup performance
- Fixed a crash when clicking on very long URLs in friends chat
- Fixed the in-game overlay not showing over some D3D9 games that set a texture as the render target
- Fixed a case where the overlay could go temporarily unresponsive due to using a skin that generated bad geometry
- Fixed some cases of trying to send data to Steam servers while disconnected
- Fixed chats in the overlay which have existing text from out-of-game not scrolling to the bottom by default
- Fixed log files from in-game overlay corrupting some output
- Fixed app cache download issue for users with slower connections
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed issue where apps would not appear in the Games list
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Changed the Steam service to warn users when it's disabled
- Added Steam HD usage to the hardware survey
- Changed system information dialog & hardware survey wizard page to show before system info gathering starts
- Fixed system info summary showing the last of the text, instead of starting at the top
- Tools tab can now be opened with steam://open/tools
- Clicking on the download complete notification for a movie now opens the media tab, and a tool opens the tools tab
- Fixed server browser crash when trying to add a favorite
- Fixed the in-game overlay not capturing/blocking input in some games using buffered Win32 raw input
- Improved the reliability of reconnection attempts after a dropped connection to the friends/VAC servers
- Fixed locking and unlocking of group chats
- Fixed incorrect reporting of rate in bandwidth graph dialog
- Fixed potential crash on game launch
- Fix potential issues during screen resolution change
- Improved URL detection in friends chats to
- Fix memory leak in some Steamworks apps
- Fixed a bug where if you had received multiple gifts or guest passes you may only see a pop-up notice about one of them on starting the client
- Fixed the "Failed to open key" error when trying to update Steam
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed reconnect issues with chat rooms
- Fixed clients in chat rooms getting into 'ghost chats' if they disconnect and reconnect from the Steam servers
- Fixed client hang if the server browser window was closed while the "Add server" window was open
- Fixed the name of mods being played not always showing to friends
- Fixed switching between fullscreen and windowed mode in a DX7 game with the overlay enabled
- Fixed texture corruption in OpenGL games with the overlay enabled
- Steamworks: added more logging & warning info for the networking API
