Widescreen Gaming Forum

Who has tried it?

Who likes it?

Who hates it?

Who has discovered that it deletes their game data? (Race 07/Borderlands/HL2/Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2/et al.)

Who misses the Compact Games list?

Did anyone spot an offline mode?

...

And after Valve broke offline mode at the weekend with an update, who got the 'fix' today and found that... it doesn't work?

I don't like it. Looks far too imposing. I prefer much cleaner interfaces.

It deleted my games too, which I'm not best pleased about.

And I NEED to have mini-games list to at least make it look slightly neater.

So overall I'm not that impressed BUT I am glad they're at least trying to update it a bit as certain parts were looking a bit dated.

Dont like it, and in the process they have managed to wipe my entire friends list, leaving with JUST my groups, bit of a fail, but hopefully will be fixed soon. :(

Who has tried it?

Who likes it?

Who hates it?

Who has discovered that it deletes their game data? (Race 07/Borderlands/HL2/Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2/et al.)

Who misses the Compact Games list?

Did anyone spot an offline mode?

...

And after Valve broke offline mode at the weekend with an update, who got the 'fix' today and found that... it doesn't work?

I like it.

I don't hate it.

It didn't delete any of my game stuff aside from Half life 1 which needed to download for a few seconds after updating.

I never used the compact games list, I find it to be a burden, an extra steam window, I find it easier to use the tabs in the main window to hop between the games list and stuff like the community site rather than being stuck with what reminds me of IE6 back in the day. Multiple windows.

Steam (eh.. File) -> Go Offline; I would assume that when you launch with no internet it also goes offline automatically. There's probably a launch option to start offline automatically as well.

That being said it does need some major improvements all around, I'm really not feeling the wasted space at the bottom of the friends list, or wasted space in the chat box. Stuff like that. But they seem to be listening to the users and it is infact a beta so I'm definitely excited to see where we end up. :)

Dont like it, and in the process they have managed to wipe my entire friends list, leaving with JUST my groups, bit of a fail, but hopefully will be fixed soon. :(

Yeah, that was actually unrelated but still a major fuckup.

I like it... didn't delete anything, the new game detail stuff is nice.

I wish you could add images and such to non-steam games you launch through Steam though, as that is mostly how I use Steam.

Haven't tried it. I'm usually not much of a beta person.

I have heard someone complain about severe performance issues though. Seems to be an isolated incident so far though.

Just got home and appears friends list is now fixed... yay :)
as for any layout changes, I dont notice any :| or are the changes in game?

Just got home and appears friends list is now fixed... yay :)
as for any layout changes, I dont notice any :| or are the changes in game?

You have to apply for the beta, you can check it out here:
http://store.steampowered.com/uiupdate/

Does anyone know if it scales up the interface in higher resolutions now?

Just tried it.

Sorta like it.

Don't hate it.

Didn't check on the deleted games (though I'm not playing any single player games in Steam at the moment).

Never used the compact games list.

The addition of all of the detailed graphics for the games list is very nice, and the tile mode listing the games actually made me want to replay some of them. The screenshot background in the "detailed games list" was very nice, although some titles were missing it. The little touches here and there feel nice, but in general it feels very bulky. Detailed, but bulky.

I could get used to it, but I much prefer the basic games list as an option if I'm just playing my games and not browsing through their details. Either that or alter the tiled window to sort out a "My Favorites" list and an "Installed" list instead of just showing everything.

It's ... a good start.

I like it a lot. It works perfect. No games or friends were deleted.

They also use WebKit for the web rendering engine now instead of IE. <3

:D

It's great.

I used the compact games list before but honestly I don't care if it's missing because I don't exactly leave Steam visible on the screen at all times to see the games. If I go to the games list it's to launch a game and then close the list. The in-game overlay is awesome.

I used the compact games list before but honestly I don't care if it's missing because I don't exactly leave Steam visible on the screen at all times to see the games.

They are probably going to add that back in, there's a very large number of people that want it.

You can get the game list we are use to seeing by going to (edit) *list* view and then right-clicking the title bar and unselecting image.

:)

You can get the game list we are use to seeing by going to (edit) *list* view and then right-clicking the title bar and unselecting image.

:)

But it's still a huge window, rather than the small box.

On my laptop I don't have the screen real-estate necessary for Steam to be a huge window, as the res is quite low. That said, I kinda like the beta, but I'd like the compact view back. I'd also like offline mode in the normal client to work again. "Fixed" my arse... they broke the workaround that was viable in the 19th Feb update, though. Select "Offline Mode" and get "Could not connect to Steam network, check your internet connection" well... no shit... "offline" shouldn't need to connect to steam networks. Bakayarou.

I found a couple of bugs - some of the graphics of the games aren't the little banners - Audiosurf, for example, is a tiny, tiny icon in the 'banner'.

Just realized the in-game overlay is much, much improved. That alone makes me almost want to buy games on Steam again.

Almost.

Of course there's bugs.

It's beta.

Here's an example:



Either it's lying or I'm amazing at compressing time.

Bugs like that are fairly minor. It's got some megabugs in it, too. Still, it's pretty good. It'll be awesome once it has the compact view again. :D

Tried the new UI for BFBC2 beta and Guild Wars, and a few seconds of L4D2. I have noticed after their latest update which was supposed to fix offline mode or something that the text isn't rendering right when using the Steam overlay. There doesn't seem to be any issue with it outside the game, which is to be expected. Of course there's the first-time issue of having to turn off automatic proxy detection over LAN for Steam's use of the IE engine. But I haven't seen anything that really breaks it... yet.

The new UI is finally something refreshing for a change. I just wish that they'd make creating Steam UI skins more easier to create so there would be a lot more to choose from. Having that dated green, grey, or whatever color is really getting old. I don't hate it nor do I love it. But at the very least, it's something different. Takes a few minutes to adjust, if you've used Steam a lot. Nothing completely different at least.

Of course there's the first-time issue of having to turn off automatic proxy detection over LAN for Steam's use of the IE engine.

They don't use IE anymore. They now use WebKit, the best web engine available. :D

I just wish that they'd make creating Steam UI skins more easier to create so there would be a lot more to choose from.

I don't know about the ease of creating skins, but they added a ton of options for skin-makers now.



Also, all of those rumors about a Mac OS X Steam seem pretty dumb. They included the three button icons that are used on OSX titlebars for minimizing, closing, etc. There's no reason to include these icons with applications because these are OS-controlled when you make OSX applications. They don't include a copy of those icons in every app made.

The reason for including those icons is simple. They're for a OSX-like skin for Windows. They have absolutely nothing to do with OSX itself.