Steam News

Steam client update released

June 22, 2009, 3:47 pm - Valve - Steam Client Update

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