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A new Steam Deck Beta Client update was released yesterday, and it has some nice new features for the upcoming client features coming soon. The new Steam Families feature, which will replace Family Sharing, now gives Adults in the families the ability to allow and disallow specific games for children in the family, while you can now disable game recording on a per-game basis with the new Game Recording feature.

There were also some bug fixes that could result in the Steam Deck failing to boot or the Steam Client crashing on shutdown. We also have reduced the latency of some Steam Input API actions, making input lag disappear.

You can download the update yourself in the System Settings on the Steam Deck. Make sure your update channel is set to Beta or Preview.

Steam Deck Beta Client 8/13/24 Update Changelog:

General

  • Adults in Steam Families can now right click games in their library and allow/disallow those games for children with parental controls in their family. Also works with multiple games selected.
  • Fixed a rare bug that could result in SteamDeck failing to boot due to invalid symlinks in ~/.steam

Game Recording

  • Added support for disabling game recording on a per-game basis.
  • Fixed a rare crash on Steam Client shutdown.
  • Fixed an issue where the Jump 10 seconds forward/backward buttons could get stuck when viewing a clip or game recording

Steam Input

  • Reduced latency of Steam Input API Action Set/Action Set Layer commands. If any input issues are noticed in Steam Input API games please report them in the forums.
  • Reduced latency of Steam Input API rumble/haptics commands

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Noah Kupetsky
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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