Steam Client Beta Details

[HardOCP News]

There is a brand new Steam Client Beta out now (dated yesterday) that has a handful of fixes, one of which was a bug causing DirectX12 games not being able to switch resolutions. The rest of the patch notes are below:

Overlay

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  • Fixed DirectX12 games not being able to switch resolutions

Streaming/Controller

• Fixed crash on startup with certain games such as Assault Android Cactus and Resident Evil 6.

Steam Controller

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  • Fixed rumble emulation getting stuck on in some circumstances.
  • Fixed Dragon's Dogma receiving both X-Input and Direct Input leading to incorrect prompts and input trouble.

 

[Xerack]

Wait...there are DX12 games out now?

 

[Comixbooks]

What is this thing actually a New Steam App or is it for Streaming couldn't find it on Youtube.

 

[Geef]

What?!? Haven't you heard of Atari and their game ET? I heard from "someone" its Directx12 Compatible !

 

[polonyc2]

some of those game-specific fixes seem pretty important so I'm not sure why this was put out as a beta

 

[somecallmeTim]

some of those game-specific fixes seem pretty important so I'm not sure why this was put out as a beta

Part of the testing process prior to rolling it out. Beta users are small percentage of the millions that use Steam. Rolling out untested patches would be a bad thing... a very very bad thing. Having had to clean up from untested patch rollouts... yeah. it's a bad thing.