I do think it's dumb that they changed the aspect ratio of game tiles, and not all developers have apparently supplied new tile images. That's just rubbish.
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After 2+ years of wait, the new Steam library UI has officially released and I think it kinda sucks
- Thread starter Rickenslacker
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Kind of a bizarre change, but since I'm still almost always using playnite for games management anyway it's mostly irrelevant to me. I don't think it's an improvement.
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Low bandwidth mode enables that by default, which again, is what I used when taking that picture.
I vastly prefer the new version. I always liked grid view, but the images loading from the web was slow on my garbage connection, so I was forced to choose between snappy and pretty. Now I can have both.
I honestly can't tell who's sincere and who is trolling on this forum anymore
not directly in yet but xou can turn it with
steam://open/minigameslist
It doesn't hide those things though. I've mentioned it twice elsewhere but my main beef is showing achievements with detailed descriptions.
Anyway, just give us customization options and it'll be... better. It's still pretty sluggish just scrolling through the text list. If one wants the visual flair there's already the big picture mode.
I tried that and it broke my ability to uninstall games (and therefore, who knows what else).
It took me a couple days to get used to it but I like it now.
That new shelf is good for games I play but don't keep super close tabs on development for when they do fun updates.
That new shelf is good for games I play but don't keep super close tabs on development for when they do fun updates.
I haven't updated Steam yet, but this is something I always do when I play a non steam game with the Steam Controller. I have to play them in big picture mode now (it's off and on when I have to do this depending on a update's tendencies, aggravating but what can you do), and I have a history of BPM sucking up up to 30% cpu which I think I found a fix for on reddit. I still rush to minimize BPM while the game is launching though, I don't want to take chances of a maximized BPM sucking up resources.
It was literally called and reference to as the "Library Update", so not seeing the problem.
I like the update but want more options for smart-collections and search
- search by dev
- search by pub
- sort by purchase date
- as above with smart collections
- when do we the event/calendar update
- expand the calendar update to also support individual user usage -eg organise between friends to schedule playing in said events etc
I like the update but want more options for smart-collections and search
- search by dev
- search by pub
- sort by purchase date
- as above with smart collections
- when do we the event/calendar update
- expand the calendar update to also support individual user usage -eg organise between friends to schedule playing in said events etc
I don't have as much beef with it but stuff like no way to straight up disable "what's new" is just crap.
Also the blurred art, no I'm not gonna sit and potentially update hundreds of games and while it seems like alot more games have proper art now compared to beta I can imagine that there's gonna be a truckload of older games that never get updated.
Also the blurred art, no I'm not gonna sit and potentially update hundreds of games and while it seems like alot more games have proper art now compared to beta I can imagine that there's gonna be a truckload of older games that never get updated.
I also don't like that the news section is now under community or whatever now. I'm probably in the small minority, but I did like seeing the latest related news for the selected game there on the main details page.
Oh no.
So that video showing how to revert, do you have to do it if you update again? Steam updates a ton. Is there a downside, security wise, to preventing the updates? I tend to want them because maybe they will allow me to use the Steam Controller for other launchers without having to use BPM again.
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I like. The point is, you need to customize to be just the way you like it.
I'm not a huge fan of it either, it still doesn't look anywhere near as good as the Metro skin I've been using for years and as a bonus it's also broken that so I can't use it anymore.
It's definitely an improvement over the old stock UI but that's about the nicest thing I can say about it.
It's definitely an improvement over the old stock UI but that's about the nicest thing I can say about it.
I much prefer the old list version so I reverted back to the old UI. Let's see how long that lasts, I would like to be able to update the launcher again someday...
In general I like the new library.
The problem is the update is just for the library. I expected them to overhaul the whole thing. Steam right now is just a big mess of what feels like at least four different design iterations. Client UI, Store UI, Library UI, community pages, chat, achievements all look different from each other now.
And changing from horizontal to vertical cover arts is just an awful idea when you already feature thousands of games on the store. 70% of my library looks like it was drenched in vaseline and I know it will stay that way for most of the older games.
The problem is the update is just for the library. I expected them to overhaul the whole thing. Steam right now is just a big mess of what feels like at least four different design iterations. Client UI, Store UI, Library UI, community pages, chat, achievements all look different from each other now.
And changing from horizontal to vertical cover arts is just an awful idea when you already feature thousands of games on the store. 70% of my library looks like it was drenched in vaseline and I know it will stay that way for most of the older games.
It's bad, and I would say a lot of the problems with it are easy to fix just by looking at Epic, GOG, and Xbox UI; but they took years just to do this.
Yeah, the blur effect on games with horizontal icons is pretty garbage. I haven't played around with it much but it feels like they're following modern graphic design trends but haven't figured out basic things that other storefronts have. But Steam has always been visually unappealing, so I'm not particularly surprised?
I'm glad I'm not the only one that liked the old UI. I really just like the simplicity of it. Maybe I just need to give the new one a chance.
This is the part that bugs the crap out of me.
However, I've always used list view and have something selected so I don't think I'll be seeing the new additions too much. From my perspective they just made game pages look prettier once selected like OP demonstrated here:
I don't quite understand the complaint here, what else would you want? It has the same functionality as before, with even more links/options now.
Thats basically the old skin. The skin i was using kinda changed the interface and according to the steam group steam has beenslowly taking steam customization away
So yeah uh
Rip steam user skins
I mean the OP has a point. If you only have 3 games in your library then its better to use the given space with bigger images and more details.
But in general people own more games or have more games installed than just 3, or the max number of 6 which the EGS can fit onto a screen.
But in general people own more games or have more games installed than just 3, or the max number of 6 which the EGS can fit onto a screen.
I like a lot of the new update, but there are some things I prefer on the old one.
Like I wish the aspect ratio of the game tiles stayed the same. It looks terrible now with any game that hasn't designed a new one, and broke all my custom tile images for non-steam games.
Don't really care for the news or community stuff, but I recognize that a lot of people probably do like that.
Like I wish the aspect ratio of the game tiles stayed the same. It looks terrible now with any game that hasn't designed a new one, and broke all my custom tile images for non-steam games.
Don't really care for the news or community stuff, but I recognize that a lot of people probably do like that.