Steam - New BETA Client Released

Valve has released a new BETA of their Steam client. To acquire the BETA, open your Steam client, go to Settings>BETA participation.

Changelog:

- 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

Steam - New BETA Client

A new (BETA) version of Steam client is available for users to try out. To use the Steam BETA client, go to Settings>Account>BETA Participation and select Steam client candidate.

Release notes:

• Fix incorrect display of error dialog “Steam has found a problem with your local game files” in cases where a server connection could not be made
• Reload list of content servers more frequently to improve download rate and fix cases of download stopping due to a stale list
• Fix case where Steam could display 100% loaded prematurely if files were manipulated externally to Steam
• These fixes should resolve the issue some users are having with Frontlines: Fuel of War claiming to be 100% when not all the files have been downloaded. Read more

  Tags: BETA, Content Servers, Frontlines Fuel Of War, Game Files, Participation, Release Software, Server Connection, Software Junkies, Steam Client