Steam Deck Client 1/11/24 - Workshop Redesign and More

Yesterday, a new Steam Deck Client update was released, bringing over a wealth of changes from the beta branch. The Steam Workshop menus have been completely reworked, allowing you to sort and change the load order, disable, swap out items based on collections, and check detailed information about the mods you are subscribed to.

On top of that, there has been a reduction in black screen flashes when opening the Steam interface, the nearest scaling mode has been replaced with Pixel, and some crashes have been fixed. A small crash in Black Ops 3 was fixed, and the HDR visualization settings have been moved.

Overall, this is a welcome update with a fantastic redesign of how you can interact with Workshop mods easily.

Steam Deck Client 1/11/24 Update Changelog:

General

• Reduce the amount of black screen flashes that happen when opening the Steam interface while playing a game with a custom screen refresh rate setting.
• Replaced Nearest scaling mode with Pixel, a pseudo-bandlimited filter for upscaling pixel art to non-integer factors without introducing aliasing. Integer scale factors will still be Nearest.
• Fixed "Friends who Play" section not refreshing until the client was restarted
• Fixed a crash in "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" when switching maps.
• Fixed situations causing the Steam client to only download the Windows version of a title and later attempting to run it without Proton.
• Reset the HDR Visualization setting to None for all users.
• Moved the HDR Visualization setting from Display->Advanced to Developer settings.
• Adjusted the recent games page header so that it's visible when changing selection.
• Fixed left trackpad haptics triggering at wrong pressure for Steam Deck OLED.
• Fix "View Additional Artwork" button not properly showing content on soundtrack details pages.

Steam Workshop

• Re-designed the Workshop subscriptions list (accessible from Game Properties). It now includes the ability to sort by subscription date, last updated, size, name, and load order.
• Added ability to change the local load order of Workshop item subscriptions.
• Added ability to set the local order based on any Workshop item dependencies (must be set on the Workshop items themselves).
• Added ability to disable Workshop item subscriptions, which will hide them from the game.
• Added the ability to filter the Workshop subscriptions list by tag name. Use the same search field for filtering items by name.
• Show the name of the Workshop item being download in the game's tooltip on the Downloads page.
• Added functionality that allows swapping the items in your subscription list quickly using collections:
  • Added ability to save the filtered list of items to a new or existing Workshop collection. This will overwrite the contents of the collection with the contents of the list.
  • Added ability to overwrite the user's subscription list to just the contents of a Workshop collection.
  • Added ability to add items from a collection to the user's subscription list.

Steam Cloud

• Fix uploading for some apps which have a very large number of files
• Fix sync for some apps which store files in the Windows user home directory

Steam Input

• Fixed a crash related to non-Steam Shortcuts

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