New Steam Beta GUI - Awesome

Does anyone know if non-Steam games added to Steam are succeptible to screwups from the update?

I would assume not since Steam just manages the link and has an overlay running over the game, but I thought I'd ask to make sure.

I use Steam to manage all games (and some applications) on my PC, and don't want to risk breaking anything.

You're right, all it manages is the link. If it happens to break something just re-add the link. For what its worth though, I have a a bunch of non-steam apps in Steam and they haven't been affected as far as I can tell.
 
The new browser looks pretty cool but I preferred the old Games window by miles. Of all the various views you can select for it now, there is not a single one that isn't silly. The list view comes closest but the old one wasn't broken, and didn't need fixing.

Also, is the community tab supposed to be completely unchanged or will they be tweaking that too?
 
Well, I won't be trying the beta then. The two pieces of software I use the most are Steam and the Zune software. Zune needs that setting checked in order to search the store at a decent speed, and I really don't want to be flipping in and out of IE to change it back and forth.

It doesnt seem to affect everyone. I have IE8 with the "auto detect settings" checked and steams new beta GUI works fine for me, windows 7 x64 fyi
 
Give it some time folks it just went live yesterday/today. I am pretty sure after all of the feedback they get -- a small games list/minimalistic option will become available again.
 
There is a list view...

yup a list view with HUGE thumbnails, and huge text that I have scroll through to see all of my installed games. Before I could view a list off all 50ish of my installed games in single window without the need the scroll and little icons to represent them now I can only see 10 at time. They have sacrificed simply functionality for flashiness. And I really don't like the default skin... Bigger is not equal to better...
 
yup a list view with HUGE thumbnails, and huge text that I have scroll through to see all of my installed games. Before I could view a list off all 50ish of my installed games in single window without the need the scroll and little icons to represent them now I can only see 10 at time. They have sacrificed simply functionality for flashiness. And I really don't like the default skin... Bigger is not equal to better...

Opt out of the beta. Problem solved.
 
My take on why they are switching is a bit more pragmatic. The EU has forced Microsoft to give users other options besides IE via a browser election. Steam relying on IE would ensure that some people wouldn't be able to play their games.

Their main concern is keeping their customer base active. Secondary to that is supporting other platforms.

That said if I could run Steam under Linux and have at least a few Linux compatible games that would go a long way towards making me a very happy guy.

Steam uses the Trident rendering engine, not necessarily IE.
 
yup a list view with HUGE thumbnails, and huge text that I have scroll through to see all of my installed games.
Or you could just right click the column header and uncheck "Image". You can get rid of any categorical column you want to this way.

Don't be afraid to explore a little bit. Steam won't bite.

Steam uses the Trident rendering engine, not necessarily IE.
It does, in fact, hook directly through IE. You get IE error pages, IE dialog boxes...IE everything.
 
Very nice sofar! Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, working fine here. I do like the Windows 7 Taskbar icon showing the download status, nice.
 
Or you could just right click the column header and uncheck "Image". You can get rid of any categorical column you want to this way.

Don't be afraid to explore a little bit. Steam won't bite.

Damn it. That is about the only place I didn't try right clicking lol. Even then I still don't really like it. :(
 
I really like the new download page. Tell you the current speed, your top speed it reached. How much you've downloaded and how big the download is. I always hated nto knowing the size while it was dl'ing. also gives you an ETA on when it will be finsihed.

Anogther thing I like, it sorts everything by name, the old version seperated my steam games from my non-steam games, I like having them all together like this instead.
 
I love it. The new polish on steam really makes it perfect IMO. I <3 steam and it just keeps getting better and better. Now if only they would do midnight launches.
 
Does it finally let you install or move games outside of the main Steam directory?
 
This is great. I expect the lack of IE will make it work even better on Linux! I'd still love to see an actual Linux client and (really dreaming here) built in WINE for games (ie Steam for Linux incorporates part of WINE and has certain profiles to make even Windows games work better in Linux, activated when you load said title)
 
If you can't get to community or store here are the directions to fix it:

1. go to internet options in control panel
2. go to connections
3. go to LAN settings
4. uncheck "automatically ditect"
5. restart steam

Worked for me on Win7 X64
 
Does anyone know if non-Steam games added to Steam are succeptible to screwups from the update?

I would assume not since Steam just manages the link and has an overlay running over the game, but I thought I'd ask to make sure.

I use Steam to manage all games (and some applications) on my PC, and don't want to risk breaking anything.

Nah, the worst that can potentially happen is that it will forget the shortcut in one of your custom categories. All Steam does with games you add is stick the shortcut in there, so no big deal.
 
This is great. I expect the lack of IE will make it work even better on Linux! I'd still love to see an actual Linux client and (really dreaming here) built in WINE for games (ie Steam for Linux incorporates part of WINE and has certain profiles to make even Windows games work better in Linux, activated when you load said title)

OS X assets and compatible files have been found in the Steam directory. Between that and the Webkit engine, it seems to be just a matter of time before it gets ported over to OS X. This hopefully means that a Linux port is also coming since Linux is a hell of a lot closer to OS X than it is to Windows.
 
yup a list view with HUGE thumbnails, and huge text that I have scroll through to see all of my installed games. Before I could view a list off all 50ish of my installed games in single window without the need the scroll and little icons to represent them now I can only see 10 at time. They have sacrificed simply functionality for flashiness. And I really don't like the default skin... Bigger is not equal to better...

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Ughhh, as if, it's making me fully download a bunch of games.

That's not cool, I already downloaded like 100gigs worth of games on steam this month. Another 50gigs is gonna push me over my usage.

Does look nice though.
 
Anyone else having issues with the taskbar icon not sticking to "Active" after setting it to show?
 
Trying the beta now. First thing I noticed is how fast it loads. When it had to load IE before it would come to a standstill for atleast 10 seconds then be sluggish while it loaded all the side things.

Now it loads fast and is not sluggish.

Im REALLY glad they are doing this as beta tho. And they seem to be taking their time about it and doing it right. This does not look like the WON to Steam transition scandal.
 
Yeah, the Beta is still pretty buggy. I had to switch back because it wouldn't let me answer calls or anything while in game.

Overall though...... meh.....
 
Its pretty, but honestly I find it way to busy and almost convoluted. The old simplicity worked so well for finding what you wanted. Good ideas, they just implemented too many lol.

The games list is way to large to really be a nice list. Should put the zoom feature in there.

However after checking my resources and saw how much memory steam was eating for just listing my games I reverted back to the original.

Upon loading and viewing my games the new steam UI was at 132mb.
Upon loading and viewing my games the old steam UI was at 22 mb.

Its a beta so hopefully they will take the feed back and turn it into something very good like it has potential to be. But for now I'll keep the old one till they update the new one.
 
woah, very nice! I'm liking the new games menu particularly. Though I have to say, I was rather fond of the old interface, especially with a custom, slightly darker, less green theme. But this is nice too.
 
How did I miss this yesterday? New UI is awesome. Not sure how/why you guys are having issues with the game browser...
 
Ughhh, as if, it's making me fully download a bunch of games.

That's not cool, I already downloaded like 100gigs worth of games on steam this month. Another 50gigs is gonna push me over my usage.

Does look nice though.

Ugh. I thought I had it bad. Damn thing made me download a 7 gig "update" for MW2.
 
I tried it last night after reservations about having game file missing.

I didn't have any issues with this after all. MW2 is still there without the need to re-download anything

Initial impressions are it looks nicer, but it's way too cluttered and busy. Perhaps it'll take time to get used to it? It also seems very slow and cumbersome browsing in its present state

Overall, impressed visually but poorly executed layout and sedimentary performance. D+ for effort
 
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