Steam Client Beta Available - Aug 11 Update

[Banned4Ever]

I don't know if this is related to this beta, but I found probably bug:

Last item in my blotter is reversed. There is ".bulC otatop nedloG ot themmoc a dedda ozzidoC" instead of "Codizzo added a comment to Golden Potato Club.". Here is screenshot: http://i51.tinypic.com/2ce2edu.png

The origin of this issue is in nickname of this user (http://steamcommunity.com/id/codizzo/). He has some strange character at the start of his nickname and this character affects other text...
<Title> html tag from Chrome (screen (http://i55.tinypic.com/30d8dib.png) - I can't copy & paste properly. Forum replace this character with pink heart symbol):
<title>Steam Community :: ID :: ♥Codizzo</title>

Yea there is some symbol that reverts the name and also affects some places in the Community.

[michael89]

I can not trade Portal 2 items.

I´d throw a guess, that Portal 2 - item trading is not supported yet.

[marciohuser]

I can not trade Portal 2 items.
Are any of those itens an Achievable item? You can't trade those.

[ApeSpecter]

all of them are achievement items.

[Mr.Buttocks]

Can't sign-in since updating. :confused:

[Symmetric]

I can not trade Portal 2 items.

None of the items from Portal 2 should be tradable. They're all obtained either via achievement or from the store.

Perhaps the DLC coming this month will add new tradable items.

[Varsity]

Can't sign-in since updating. :confused:

I'm having a lot of failures too. It did succeed just now though.

[fyiiamaheavy]

its out thanks valve :D

[Peewi]

Why the "Add a Friend" from the bottom of the Friends window still not removed?

Probably because that dialog is still the only way to add a friend by email address.

[Justin7]

Probably because that dialog is still the only way to add a friend by email address.

Click on friends (at the top of your friends list) > Add a friend

[HarryHy]

Not directly related to the beta, but if someone invites you to a game causing a new chat window, and the game invite expires (such as the option closes), the chat window should also close. I'm tired of seeing 20 different empty windows open when I wake up from people inviting me to games when I'm not there.

[T@F]

oh great.
Now the beta has become final i have many games on paused,yet they was ok before the update.
ffs now i cannot play half my games until what ever files it needs to re-download.
this is not good when we are on a bandwidth cap.

Also the first and last game in small mode needs more of a gap above the first game name and below the last game name.
as the tip of the names seems to be slightly darker as there hitting the boarder.

[StanGe]

BUG (important)


Steam Trading is released, and now includes the a third-party game: Spiral Knights!
http://store.steampowered.com/news/6201/

A fix for the funky friends list issue is included. If you see more issues, about anything in the client, or on the web site please post. Thanks.

sorry but the funky friends list is still on board. and this is a major issue, its just happens. i´d like to help and get you guys the informations you need. simply contact me via pm. i allready delted the whole steam folder except for the steam.exe and the steamapps folder, to get a new and clean install, but this didn´t help. don´t know what else i could do. btw this only happens in the steam overlay. if im on my desktop, everything is fine.

here are some infos about my current friend list setup.

settings:

- sort by name: off
- show avatars: on
- show online friends only: on
- show everyone in the friends section: off
- i created 3 friend tags for all of my friends during the beta which im currently uses.

i´ll try to delete all the tags, and see if the "normal" friend list will work without any problems. i´ll report back.


EDIT: so i deleted all of my tags to get a "normal" friends list. this one looks good. didn´t noticed something weired. so i will restore my tags and see if this will bring back the funky list. report incomeing.


EDIT 2: fast one. i created a tag with 5 friends. and this one goes crazy. the "normal" friend list with the rest of my friends was stable. so it doesn´t matter how many friends are stored in a tag or if all friends are in tags. as far as i can see, the tags are buggy. btw. the game where i tested this bug was Portal 2.

and during my tests i noticed that the "view alias" dialog is still buggy. it still shows the 1/1/1970 as date for name changes and this applies to all of my friends not only a single one. http://www.abload.de/img/2011-09-07_00001c8ci.png
of course these bugs only happens via the steam overlay.

EDIT 3: so i did my last try. i deleted the dialogconfig.vdf because even after deleting the friends tags, they were still in there. so i created a new tag, but it didn´t changed a little bit. the friends list still wanna dance to funk music ;)

[HarryHy]

oh great.
Now the beta has become final i have many games on paused,yet they was ok before the update.
ffs now i cannot play half my games until what ever files it needs to re-download.
this is not good when we are on a bandwidth cap.
Yeah, I and a few others have mentioned this many times... I guess Valve just couldn't reproduce it or it was not a big concern for them.

PS: if you steam://install/8670 - you get http://i.imgur.com/UCNYK.png which is weird.

[nojohnny]

1.
if "Friend-list" window is open then it results into 25 to 75% CPU usage (on 1-2 cores)
note: ~290 to 300 users in friend-list
Was the maximum amount of friends increased from 250? If so, when did this happen? If not, how did you get more than 250 friends on your friends list?

[kakkerlak]

Was the maximum amount of friends increased from 250? If so, when did this happen? If not, how did you get more than 250 friends on your friends list?
read about hte facebook update.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/5644/

[nojohnny]

Will unlinking an facebook account decrease friends back to 250?

[nojohnny]

BUG

When I launch a game when Steam goes offline(not offline mode, but rather the Internet connection goes down or Steam Community downtime), even though I quit the game before Steam comes back online, when Steam does come back online it will show everyone that I am still ingame. I have to relaunch and requit the game in order to clear the incorrect ingame status.

[nojohnny]

Just a bit of feedback, it looked weird having the picture as part of the Update News displayed in the client when doing the update. I think its better to keep pictures to those popup windows you get when you start Steam.

[stoyan377]

- Added Steam Trade (see here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...6748-ETSG-5417) - Great, now have trading in TF2, Steam gifts, Spiral Knights and Portal 2

- Added Brazilian-Portuguese and Bulgarian language support - Finally, Steam is translated to my Bulgarian language!

[vempajor]

Why my friendslist showing one of my friend as online and his community page says he was online 12 hours ago last time. :confused:

[sand-hun]

My friend list looks rather weird after the update :/

It looks like this both in-game and on the desktop.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/204/fockisthis.jpg/

I used the beta for like one month and had no problem like this.

Any solution to this?

[heffebaycay]

My friend list looks rather weird after the update :/

It looks like this both in-game and on the desktop.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/204/fockisthis.jpg/

I used the beta for like one month and had no problem like this.

Any solution to this?I had the same issue on another Steam installation today. I fixed it by deleting all files and folders from the Program Files\Steam\ directory, except:


Steam.exe
steamapps folder

[kakkerlak]

looks like a custom skin problem to me.
but that could be because of the problem.

deleting all those folders will for sure fix it , changing skin too.

[StanGe]

any news on the buggy overlay friends list if you tag your friends? is this a global problem or does this just come up on a specific setup? i would like to use this new feature but this bug prevents me from doing so.

[MikeBlaszczak]

any news on the buggy overlay friends list if you tag your friends? Can you be more specific, please?

[StanGe]

i simply quote myself.


BUG (important)


Steam Trading is released, and now includes the a third-party game: Spiral Knights!
http://store.steampowered.com/news/6201/

A fix for the funky friends list issue is included. If you see more issues, about anything in the client, or on the web site please post. Thanks.


sorry but the funky friends list is still on board. and this is a major issue, its just happens. i´d like to help and get you guys the informations you need. simply contact me via pm. i allready delted the whole steam folder except for the steam.exe and the steamapps folder, to get a new and clean install, but this didn´t help. don´t know what else i could do. btw this only happens in the steam overlay. if im on my desktop, everything is fine.

here are some infos about my current friend list setup.

settings:

- sort by name: off
- show avatars: on
- show online friends only: on
- show everyone in the friends section: off
- i created 3 friend tags for all of my friends during the beta which im currently uses.

i´ll try to delete all the tags, and see if the "normal" friend list will work without any problems. i´ll report back.


EDIT: so i deleted all of my tags to get a "normal" friends list. this one looks good. didn´t noticed something weired. so i will restore my tags and see if this will bring back the funky list. report incomeing.


EDIT 2: fast one. i created a tag with 5 friends. and this one goes crazy. the "normal" friend list with the rest of my friends was stable. so it doesn´t matter how many friends are stored in a tag or if all friends are in tags. as far as i can see, the tags are buggy. btw. the game where i tested this bug was Portal 2.

and during my tests i noticed that the "view alias" dialog is still buggy. it still shows the 1/1/1970 as date for name changes and this applies to all of my friends not only a single one. http://www.abload.de/img/2011-09-07_00001c8ci.png
of course these bugs only happens via the steam overlay.

EDIT 3: so i did my last try. i deleted the dialogconfig.vdf because even after deleting the friends tags, they were still in there. so i created a new tag, but it didn´t changed a little bit. the friends list still wanna dance to funk music ;)


here is another one who can confirm this bug: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24903856&postcount=752

[Dragoon.x]

I hope I don't make myself a joke by requesting this, but can you update your steam.ico ? It's only 16x16 pixels and even the icon embedded in the exe file is only 48x48px.
A 128*128 or even 256*256 icon would be nice.

Just looks silly in Win7 when all icons are 128px and then this tiny Steam icon. I mean it's cute but I don't want cute.

[shazzz]

This bug still exists:

After buying a game and when on the receipt page I saved the print job (.ps file) to the desktop, instead of printing. Because of this Steam started to create files that were supposed to be on the main Steam folder on the desktop (gameoverlay.log, shortcuts.vdf etc) and the Steam browser stopped displaying images. I had to reboot pc to fix it. It's like using "print to file" will change the path that Steam uses.

[RR10]

I think the new content system is broken.. I can download any games on my library approx. 300 kbps with the old content system.. But recently my Assassins creed brotherhood can't be downloaded.. It stucks at 1% and the speed is 0 bytes per second whole day.. Splinter cell conviction too, it uses the new content system and 0 bytes per second..

[HarryHy]

Yeah, the downloads are utterly broken and no one at Valve seems to care. Take for example MW2 - if you download just the MP version it starts off at 7 GB, not downloading the actual content files needed to play.

[2011-09-11 20:24:16]: Log session started
[2011-09-11 20:24:16]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloading for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:24:16]: AppID 10180 is now marked downloading
[2011-09-11 20:24:22]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloadingPaused for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:24:22]: AppID 10180 is now marked not downloading
[2011-09-11 20:25:57]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloading for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:25:57]: AppID 10180 is now marked downloading
[2011-09-11 20:26:00]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloadingPaused for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:26:00]: AppID 10180 is now marked not downloading
[2011-09-11 20:27:49]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloading for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:27:49]: AppID 10180 is now marked downloading
[2011-09-11 20:27:53]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloadingPaused for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:27:53]: AppID 10180 is now marked not downloading
[2011-09-11 20:29:17]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloading for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:29:17]: AppID 10180 is now marked downloading
[2011-09-11 20:29:21]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloadingPaused for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:29:21]: AppID 10180 is now marked not downloading
[2011-09-11 20:29:42]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloading for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:29:42]: AppID 10180 is now marked downloading
[2011-09-11 20:29:45]: Got eSteamNotifyAppDownloadingPaused for AppID 10180
[2011-09-11 20:29:45]: AppID 10180 is now marked not downloading
[2011-09-11 20:30:45]: Log session ended
then you get http://i.imgur.com/8aYWm.png ..

I got it working earlier but if you close your Steamclient while itäs downloading MW2 you get the infinite loop of it remaining on pause, and if you try to play it, it will say Steam servers busy in above image.

Here's some more


[2011-09-11 22:14:15] RequestAppInfoUpdate: nNumAppIDs 267, bForceUpdate 0
[2011-09-11 22:14:15] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 0, bRequestChangelist 1
[2011-09-11 22:14:16] RecvClientAppInfoChanges: m_nCurrentChangeNumber 55525, m_cNumApps 0
[2011-09-11 22:14:16] BYieldingRunAPIJob: request k_nGameIDWinUI sections 1
[2011-09-11 22:14:16] BYieldingRunAPIJob: receive k_nGameIDWinUI, sections 3
[2011-09-11 22:14:16] OnJobAppInfoDone: eResult 1, nAppsUpdated 268
[2011-09-11 22:14:16] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 0
[2011-09-11 22:14:17] RequestAppInfoUpdate: nNumAppIDs 2391, bForceUpdate 0
[2011-09-11 22:14:17] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 1
[2011-09-11 22:14:18] RecvClientAppInfoChanges: m_nCurrentChangeNumber 55525, m_cNumApps 0
[2011-09-11 22:14:21] OnJobAppInfoDone: eResult 1, nAppsUpdated 2124
[2011-09-11 22:14:21] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 0
[2011-09-11 22:14:39] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 1
[2011-09-11 22:14:40] RecvClientAppInfoChanges: m_nCurrentChangeNumber 55525, m_cNumApps 0
[2011-09-11 22:14:40] OnJobAppInfoDone: eResult 1, nAppsUpdated 1
[2011-09-11 22:14:40] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 0


[2011-09-11 22:15:03] RequestAppInfoUpdate: nNumAppIDs 267, bForceUpdate 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:03] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55495, bRequestChangelist 1
[2011-09-11 22:15:03] RecvClientAppInfoChanges: m_nCurrentChangeNumber 55525, m_cNumApps 3
[2011-09-11 22:15:03] OnJobAppInfoDone: eResult 1, nAppsUpdated 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:03] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:05] RequestAppInfoUpdate: nNumAppIDs 2391, bForceUpdate 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:05] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 1
[2011-09-11 22:15:05] RecvClientAppInfoChanges: m_nCurrentChangeNumber 55525, m_cNumApps 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:05] OnJobAppInfoDone: eResult 1, nAppsUpdated 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:05] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:09] RequestAppInfoUpdate: nNumAppIDs 1, bForceUpdate 1
[2011-09-11 22:15:09] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 1
[2011-09-11 22:15:09] RecvClientAppInfoChanges: m_nCurrentChangeNumber 55525, m_cNumApps 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:09] OnJobAppInfoDone: eResult 1, nAppsUpdated 0
[2011-09-11 22:15:09] BSendClientAppInfoUpdate: m_nLastChangeNumber 55525, bRequestChangelist 0

[Dragoon.x]

I have my games sorted in several categories. Most of these categories I keep in a collapsed state. Conveniently when I load up/restart STEAM client the categories last state are restored. So some are collapsed others expanded.

However when I changed sorting in the library between "All Games" and "Recently Played, Favorites, Media or Tools" it expands all categories.
On contrary when switching between "All Games" and "Installed or Downloads" it does that not.

Would be great if STEAM could remembers categories last state in all circumstances and restore them.

[dmtdude]

For the love of god, can you please also make it so no one can impersonate trusted traders and admins in the community, this really needs to be addressed. No matter how many times I report impersonators nothing ever gets done about actually stopping people from being able to impersonate others.

[StaunchGamers]

VALVᴱ,


1st issue (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24633558&postcount=513) – I'm not so sure if this is fixed or not, no answers, but do some tests (with different regions) and try gave us a solution;


2nd bug – Purchased Four Packs are not showing correctly into the inventory. It saying that you have just a normal (one) copy, not 4;


3rd issue – No one can create a new Steam Account using this page: https://store.steampowered.com/join/ > remove or fix it to be able. Don't know why is visible on the main store page;


4th bug – Community Nicknames that are using very special characters (http://fsymbols.com/) are not showing correctly on the taskbar when you chat with a guy who are using them. His nickname is replaced with only "???????" (no matter what skin you're using or what OS, or normal steam or beta steam, it's const);


5th issue – You can't purchase more than 10 items at once in 24 hrs no matter what the Steam Support is replying to you, that there is no such thing like "lock" on the account (if a certain number of purchases is reached). If you purchase 10 games/packs for yourself or as gifts, you can't purchase more than that. This should be fixed, too.

Bump. I (we) don't see something to be fixed from any of these (except updates to many .html files on ValveSoftware.com (http://www.valvesoftware.com/)) even when there is a "Final Steam Trading" module released week+ ago.


Regards.

[MikeBlaszczak]

3rd issue – No one can create a new Steam Account using this page: https://store.steampowered.com/join/ > remove or fix it to be able. Don't know why is visible on the main store page; The link exists on the store page to help new users create accounts. I used this link to create an account without problem. Can you be more specific about what your problem is, and why you think nobody can use the feature?

4th bug – Community Nicknames that are using very special characters (http://fsymbols.com/) are not showing correctly on the taskbar when you chat with a guy who are using them. His nickname is replaced with only "???????" (no matter what skin you're using or what OS, or normal steam or beta steam, it's const);The Mac OS doesn't have a task bar; how are you reproducing the problem there? Can you provide a specific name (or better yet, a link to an account) with such a name? I'll also need to know which locale you have activated for your operating system, and which specific operating system you're using. Given enough information to reproduce the problem, I can have a look -- but it doesn't seem likely for us to fix it; if your OS doesn't have the required font to display the special characters, then they simply can't be displayed.

[StaunchGamers]

3rd - it seems to be working now. But it wasn't working till now (or 1-2 weeks for now, can't be 100% sure). But in the past was 100% NOT working, tested from me and many other members worldwide, even it's Google optimized (http://www.google.com/search?q=Your+account+creation+request+failed%2C+p lease+try+again+later).

4th - example (http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4656/sszchatt.png) [Windows 7 x64 SP1, no MacOS; settings other's party from Control Panel: Region and Language, Format: Bulgarian; Location: Bulgaria, Keyboards: Bulgarian and US, Display language: not installed, English by default, Language for non-Unicode programs: Bulgarian (Bulgaria); exactly the same situation with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprice Edition SP1]. Used characters from here (http://fsymbols.com/)). As you can see the Steam interface is in English on the screenshot but this doesn't matter because it's the same when you switch to any other (like Bulgarian), again ??????? on the taskbar. All UTF-8 websites, symbols, programs, etc. (except Steam) are working fine with "special character symbols".

My OS is again Windows 7 x64 with installed SP1 and Up-to-Date with all updates.

Will test these days with the development build (pre-beta) of Windows 8.

[BrX]

BUG:
After the "trade" update I and other users are having a problem with defragmentation of steam games. I posted thread here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2135833

Some ppl also confirmed the issue. Is there possibility to get it fixed? It's really annoying. Thanks.

[amckern]

Steam keeps crashing when launching a game with most recent update

Windows XP SP3 - reinstalled steam, and fresh beta update - same issues.

[amckern]

In addition, the link provided as 'report a bug' points to a very old thread.

[jello]

In addition, the link provided as 'report a bug' points to a very old thread.
While this might be true, why would you resurrect an even older thread when the newest (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2867654) is visible on the first page of the General Discussion forum?! :confused:

[Matt]

This is a really old thread and beta build.