Steam UI Update

[NeilF]

Rather than make an new thread I thought I might as well ask in here, I'm about to format my system and upgrade to windows7, instead of re-downloading everything I'd like to backup my steam folder, now I just want to confirm what I have to do, I backup the 'steamapps', install windows7, then install steam again, then move my 'steamapps' folder back across right ?

Back up the entire steam folder just incase, but yes, I believe that's all I did when moving from XP to Vista...

 

[Things change I've changed]

that should work... but is barely relevant to the thread

I know, it's just I've made a couple of threads recently that got locked for asking questions that apparently are asked to frequently so I didn't want to make the same mistake again so I'm trying to limit myself from making threads unless I have to.

Anyway thanks a lot mate.

 

[Tefal]

Rather than make an new thread I thought I might as well ask in here, I'm about to format my system and upgrade to windows7, instead of re-downloading everything I'd like to backup my steam folder, now I just want to confirm what I have to do, I backup the 'steamapps', install windows7, then install steam again, then move my 'steamapps' folder back across right ?

Just back up the whole "steam" folder that way you don't have to reinstall.

Also people find that by only backing up steamapps you have to reisntal dx for every game.

So just copy the whole thin g and then run steam it will update and be done.

 

[Things change I've changed]

Just back up the whole "steam" folder that way you don't have to reinstall.

Also people find that by only backing up steamapps you have to reisntal dx for every game.

So just copy the whole thin g and then run steam it will update and be done.

Ok I'll do it this way then, sounds the best way, cheers.

 

[Tefal]

Ok I'll do it this way then, sounds the best way, cheers.

Remember though non Valve games don't put their saves in the steam folder they'll be in my documents or my games or public documents.

 

[NeilF]

Remember though non Valve games don't put their saves in the steam folder they'll be in my documents or my games or public documents.

^ good point!

 

[Disjunto]

Remember though non Valve games don't put their saves in the steam folder they'll be in my documents or my games or public documents.

oh yeah, don't forget your saves

 

[Things change I've changed]

Yep thanks for the reminder, backing everything up now, windows7 here I come !!

Back on topic though it seems a lot of people have been having problems with the in game overlay while using the new UI, but as steam have been releasing updates daily for the beta UI I presume it'll be fixed later today.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1158048

2/23/2010

- Fix a crash in the achievements code
- Fix a crash in the font code if a font is not found
- Fix windows rendering all black in some cases if you have a second monitor in negative coordinate space

2/24/2010

- Fix Arial Bold font for menus not being found and menus rendering empty
- Fix a common crash rendering web pages
- Fix for apps that have already been downloaded re-downloading on initial beta opt-in
- Fix for a common failure discovering HTTP proxy settings which prevented Store/News/Community pages from loading
- Fix for text on Windows 7 with higher than normal DPI settings getting clipped vertically
- Fix for a texture memory leak in the in-game overlay that could lead to crashing after a while

2/25/2010

- Fix for the most common overlay crash, which was also in in-client crash for users in large group chats
- Fix for a potential crash browsing the store
- Fix for game names in the overlay overlapping the centered overlay close text
- Fix for some unicode characters not displaying correctly
- Fix for Windows 7 or Vista users with DirectWrite font support not having BGR monitors detected correctly so ClearType looked bad

 

[Squark]

One thing I have noticed is that it seems to 'forget' my layout preferences for the games library each time I close it

 

[m4cc45]

But if you can't see why it should consume more memory it's usually a sign of poor or rushed programming. Not optimized, getting bloated etc.

As long as it doesn't cripple my system, releases the resources when they're not needed, etc. I'm not really fussed. I very rarely check out how much a process is using. I think that's a little bit obsessive really especially if you have a ton of RAM.

It's like when superfetch first appeared everyone was moaning how much RAM it was consuming. But you're not using the RAM for anything else so why not use it to optomise your OS?


M.

 

[Tefal]

I've perfected time travel!!!!

 

[Evilsod]

I've perfected time travel!!!!

Epic

 

[MarcLister]

its a nice little addition imo, the old UI was getting very dated. Got to say i'm impressed so far

Agreed. Have literally just switched to the new UI and seen it for a handful of seconds but it looks cleaner and more modern than the previous UI. I think the old UI did its job but just looked a big old and tired; replacing it with a new layout/UI is a very good idea.

 

[GothicCorpse]

my downlaods get suspended unless i try and launch them (tf2). dunno if thats the steam beta or what, a bit strange tho.

Great update very slick..

 

[chaparral]

Does anyone know of a way to add are own game icons ??

 

[Squark]

Does anyone know of a way to add are own game icons ??

I dont think you can at the minute, give them feedback about it and maybe they'll add it

 

[Dark Sun]

the new steam makes my soundcard stop working for some reason.

 

[Squark]

Another thing I've noticed, the new UI doesn't have the Win7 integration like the normal one ie the green progress bar for downloads/installs in the task bar

 

[Tefal]

Another thing I've noticed, the new UI doesn't have the Win7 integration like the normal one ie the green progress bar for downloads/installs in the task bar

Does on mine

 

[Disjunto]

Does on mine

mine just turns the icon green, doesn't show progress