Steam Beta Client Update: October 1st

We have just shipped an updated Steam Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused an empty "Steam Family Activity" group to appear in notification settings

Remote Play

• Improved the automatic Pyrowave bitrate calculation to improve visual quality
• Added convars @PyrowavePSNR and @PyrowaveHeightFactor to tune automatic bitrate calculation (see https://github.com/Themaister/pyrowave/blob/master/eval-results/objective-bitrate-evaluation.md for details)
• Pyrowave manual bitrates can be increased up to 1 Gbit/s (more bandwidth increases latency!)
• Pyrowave bitrate has been reset to the automatic default
• Fixed gradually increasing video latency when using Pyrowave on slow network links
• Reduced audio dropouts when using Pyrowave
• Added a dialog to recover if your network isn't able to handle current streaming settings
• Added a Steam menu option to stop desktop streaming

Steam Input

• On Linux switch to reshuffling gamepad input when the last running game exits instead of on game launch to avoid issues when running multiple apps at the same time

Game Overlay

• Fixed crash when Vulkan games recreate their swapchain

Steam Controller Firmware

• Fixed an issue where some Bluetooth BLE connections could disconnect repeatedly, especially on Steam Deck
• Improve the time needed to fully connect the device in Steam
• Fixed an issue where pairing via a puck connection could fail