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New Steam Library Beta Out NOW!
- Thread starter R.T Straker
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Hey, I wanna know if anyone is having the same issue as me.
I don't know why, SteamVR is on the top of my library time. Seems as if Steam think I'm playing it all the time. Says that I have 66 hours played in the last two weeks. Only started happening when I installed the beta.
I don't know why, SteamVR is on the top of my library time. Seems as if Steam think I'm playing it all the time. Says that I have 66 hours played in the last two weeks. Only started happening when I installed the beta.
Beta updated:
The beta has been updated to correct an issue with some free uninstalled applications appearing in users' libraries.
The beta has been updated to correct an issue with some free uninstalled applications appearing in users' libraries.
You're not alone. I had to hide SteamVR from my library, but it's still pumping out the hours like crazy.
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If you hide all your games, then it will stay away forever. Probably, haven't actually tried.
Its been stuck at loading the library for the last few days on this machine.... Havent been able to see my games. Gotta launch them from the start menu.
I messed a bit with the disable community content/low bandwidth mode... and I can't tell the difference. What is low bandwidth mode disabling besides community content?
Are you using any skins?
None that I'm aware of.
Edit: Played with settings and was prompted to check the low bandwidth mode, and also enabled hardware video decoding, and after Steam restarted, it worked. I've done Windows updates over the past few days and restarted earlier today so I knew Steam had to restart as well, but I guess one of those settings 'fixed' it. Strange, but whatever!
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Hah, that's pretty random. I had some library errors in the first few weeks of the beta but they stopped since then.
It was answered multiple times in this thread.
Did they say they were going to do that somewhere? That would be great if they did that. I manually sort a pretty much all of my games and having to go to the Store page and then back to my Library to apply the tag is a bit of a pain.
Yes, the auto-collection stuff is nice, but I like to have some additional say in where some game go... especially since I've had these manually set up categories for years now.
Looks like they've been adding options to the right click menu without putting them in the changelogs. "Browse local files" is part of the "Manage" submenu now, and if you have a controller connected, so is "Controller configuration".
Bless. I've always hated that you needed to go to properties to find the local files link, great additions.
Hmm looks like there is no actual official support to change it but you can change it manually.
Go to: "Steam\appcache\librarycache". The file you want to change is named "APPID#_library_hero.jpg"
where do you go to submit issues? I share libraries with my sister and in the new side listing both libraries are listed together, so I don't know whos is whos.
I think you click the beta button in the home screen, top left corner.
*top right corner
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You can submit issues here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions
For a temporary workaround, the game-page of any given game should show if a game is your sister's, it will show "Shared from the Library of...", then you can manually add these games to their own collection, that's what I did.
thanks!
thanks!
I guess it doesn't show that anymore? I tried on two that I know aren't mine (one installed and one not installed) and I don't see that anywhere
Wow yeah they removed that it seems, I just checked myself. What the heck, that was one of the worst things Valve could have done o.o
Hiding a game seems to hide updates from it but that feels like a bad way of solving that particular issue. I hope they add a way to optout from individual games.
is the new Library interface kinda laggy for anyone else? One thing I've really noticed - trying to filter your games by typing into the searchbox has really poor performance. You can literally see Steam fall behind trying to filter the games after the 3rd to 4th character, and it takes 2 to 3 seconds for the rest of your keystrokes to appear and be processed.
Some people are having performance issues, yeah. Fine for me, though I don't own thousands of games :v
Non-beta did exactly what you described but the beta is super snappy for me. And that's with the included hidden games that the old version never showed on search which means it's now sifting through well over 1000 games with all the shared stuff I have.
Weirdly it's the opposite behaviour for me though. The non-beta feels much snappier even for the large library I have. Suspect it's linked to the loading of game icons in the listing though as the slowness seems to be more apparent when listing games that I haven't really scrolled to before.
Oh well, the new interface and the improvements to categorizing are still worth it IMO. Just wish they had an option to disable the game icons in the list.
I had performance issues only when the new library first dropped. After the first update it has been reasonably responsive for me.
welp, new update solve my shared library problem.
now just need to decide if I want animated thumbs or not.
now just need to decide if I want animated thumbs or not.
it now says if a game belongs to a shared library. they merged everything in the sidebar now.
and what warrock posted
Ah okay so they reverted the removal. That's still not ideal and I have to keep my manual made collections I made for my friends libraries but better than nothing
BUMP for an awesome addition to the already great new customization features of the new Library.
Does nobody realize that Valve just improved one of the few good things about this new update?
Turns out you can add custom banners and logos to the Details page for any steam game, including non steam games.
It works extremely well alongside custom steam grid images with Non-Steam games.
Does nobody realize that Valve just improved one of the few good things about this new update?
Turns out you can add custom banners and logos to the Details page for any steam game, including non steam games.
It works extremely well alongside custom steam grid images with Non-Steam games.
Yep. and now it'll help make the mods, non-steam games, fangames and such that I have added to my steam library fit right in with all my Steam games too.
Now they just have to make it easier to be able to reorganize your games in whatever order you want in both the usual sidebar as well as your collections and shelves, AND bring back the view button so that if you don't want the grid view and just want the list view, or the collections view, you can switch between views, and it'll be much better.
