Steam Beta client

OldBloke · February 08, 2008, 10:42:06 AM

New Steam Client BETA Available

QuoteStarting today, you're now able to participate in a new Steam client BETA. How do you opt into this? Simply go to your Steam settings and on the "Account" tab you should note an area that says "Beta Participation."

Click on "Change" and opt into the only one listed there. Why should you do this? Well, this update has the following fixes and changes included.
Fixed downloads becoming paused

Improved download speeds

Decreased application launch time

Fixed URL links in chats to not include trailing punctuation as part of the link

Changed group event notifications to open at most 8 dialogs

Gone_Away · February 08, 2008, 11:11:45 AM

coolness

Anonymous · February 08, 2008, 11:12:20 AM

Mmmmm! The words "steam" and "beta" together in the same sentence gives me a good reason to run away!

Gone_Away · February 08, 2008, 11:13:17 AM

Quote from: BlueBall;221764Mmmmm! The words "steam" and "beta" together in the same sentence gives me a good reason to run away!

chicken

kregoron · February 08, 2008, 12:08:00 PM

Gonna have a look at it, as it possible cant be worse, then the current build..

Updated:
The upstart time of steam have been dramatically decreased, it now loads almost instantly..
All game icon in the game list are missing tho...

BigFatCat · February 08, 2008, 12:09:20 PM

Hmm, so if you lumped together "steam", "beta" with a bit of "vista" and "overclock", who'd be left sane?

delanvital · February 08, 2008, 12:12:34 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;221764Mmmmm! The words "steam" and "beta" together in the same sentence gives me a good reason to run away!

That is true but...

Quote from: kregoron;221773Gonna have a look at it, as it possible cant be worse, then the current build..

So I am also up for it

Dr Sadako · February 08, 2008, 02:01:46 PM

Signed up and already having problems. When I use SDK and Hammer I can't compile my map. :g:

OldBloke · February 08, 2008, 02:45:54 PM

Quote from: Dr Sadako;221788Signed up and already having problems. When I use SDK and Hammer I can't compile my map. :g:

Cue a chorus of 'I told you so'. :doh:

kregoron · February 08, 2008, 03:31:54 PM

I kept getting booted from CSS servers every 5 mins, steam logon/ticket issues.. so im back to std

Sithvid · February 08, 2008, 03:37:05 PM

technophobic here, leave it alone.

Penfold · February 08, 2008, 03:53:26 PM

:withstupid:

PEN

Bastet · February 08, 2008, 05:22:48 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;221764Mmmmm! The words "steam" and "beta" together in the same sentence gives me a good reason to run away!

True that, if it aint broke, dont attempt to fix it.

kregoron · February 09, 2008, 01:23:43 AM

Quote from: Bastet;221813True that, if it aint broke, dont attempt to fix it.

You know we are talking about steam right.. possibly one of the most unreliable pieces of software this century

Browne · February 09, 2008, 02:06:31 PM

Quote from: kregoron;221861You know we are talking about steam right.. possibly one of the most unreliable pieces of software this century

Can't say I had a problem, last night was the first night in a long time I didn't have one lag spike, my FPS was through the roof and the game loaded in half the time it normally takes.