New Steam beta with cloud-stored screenies!

Wrigleyvillain · Feb 1, 2011, 11:49 PM

Thought this might be worthy of news and submitted but that was hours ago...

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1740023

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There's a new Steam Beta client available. To access the Beta, go to File -> Settings. On the Account tab press the Change... button to open the Beta Participation dialog. Then Select Beta Update, and allow Steam to restart itself. Here are the specific changes:

1/31/2011

- Changed microphone voice input from 11khz to 16 khz
- Changed voice output from 8khz to 16khz
- Moved game invites from friends outside of the chat stream, into their own panel in the chat dialog
- [Mac OSX] Fixed a problem where attempting to resume a paused/interrupted download could always report ‘server unavailable’
- Fixed games not launching automatically after resolving a cloud conflict
- Fixed download rate sometimes erroneously reporting very high speeds
- Added password strength meter when you change your password
- Added UI prompting you to choose a new password if you've had support change your password
- Added Steam screenshots feature. Press F12 in any game to take a screenshot. Screenshots are automatically uploaded to the steam cloud after exiting the game, or can be manually uploaded while in-game through the in-game overlay. Screenshots can be managed through the community site and can be published to your Steam Community Profile to share with your friends. Games that use DirectX 8 and earlier are not yet supported.

There will also be a thread specifically for feedback about the screenshot feature: http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...play.php?f=837

1/31/2011

- Possible fix to crash on startup or when viewing Games page
- Fixed an occasional crash in the overlay when taking screenshots, causing the overlay to restart (and not display the recent screenshot)
- Fixed the default hotkey being Shift+Insert for some users rather than F12. (This fix will cause anyone who changed their screenshot hotkey to change it again.)

DannibusX · Feb 2, 2011, 12:45 AM

Awesome!

Mussels · Feb 2, 2011, 12:48 AM

that screenshot feature could be bad, if your game already uses F12...

Kursah · Feb 2, 2011, 12:55 AM

I've been using F12 for screenshots in Afterburner for a little while now. And between Precision and Fraps for years before, F12 is my go-to screenshot key. I know some games have a use for it...but not too many that I've played. I hope you can disable it if you prefer to use a different program though. But cool to see that feature get added imho.

Wrigleyvillain · Feb 2, 2011, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Mussels

that screenshot feature could be bad, if your game already uses F12...

That did occur to me as well. This is the first iteration; sure it will be tweaked. Perhaps more control really should be added too compared to how it is now but admittedly haven't even had a chance to try it yet. I guess if uploads them all when you quit the game though if you use the overlay you can choose.

Mussels · Feb 2, 2011, 01:28 AM

actually thats a good point too, if they upload while you're gaming... say hello to ping spikes

qubit · Feb 2, 2011, 01:52 AM

The useability enhancements might be very nice, but the real killer improvement is the enhanced password security.

Terribly dull I know, but there's nothing worse than a hijacked account. Having some tosser impersonate you, getting you banned from online games, generally locking you out of your expensive games and possibly making fraudulent purchases in your name.

The more games you have the worse the consequences are, of course.

And no, it's never happened to me.

ctrain · Feb 2, 2011, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Mussels

that screenshot feature could be bad, if your game already uses F12...

that's why you change it to whatever you feel like. it's in the options.

Mussels · Feb 2, 2011, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by ctrain

that's why you change it to whatever you feel like. it's in the options.

and how would i know that, without using the beta?

ctrain · Feb 2, 2011, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Mussels

and how would i know that, without using the beta?

by either clicking your mouse about 3 times to opt in, having faith that since the steam ingame shortkey key is customizable that they would be intelligent enough to do the same here, or by reading my post.

and yes you can opt out of uploading them if you really feel so inclined.

Mussels · Feb 2, 2011, 03:01 AM

last time i used a steam beta, it deleted over 30GB of games. no thanks to opting in, it sure wasnt 3 mouse clicks of effort last time.

ctrain · Feb 2, 2011, 03:07 AM

i live life on the bleeding edge so next time worry is on your brow be sure to shine the light towards the sky and i'll come running

Wrigleyvillain · Feb 2, 2011, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Mussels

last time i used a steam beta, it deleted over 30GB of games. no thanks to opting in, it sure wasnt 3 mouse clicks of effort last time.

If this isn't WTF-worthy I don't know what is.

alexsubri · Feb 3, 2011, 05:21 AM

Will this fix the Steam Tab [ in game chat, etc ] when I play Black Ops?

AphexDreamer · Feb 4, 2011, 03:31 AM

I think this steam beta messed up my mic.

It no longer works in games but testing it shows that it does in fact work.

It won't let me toggle my mic either. Its odd because this morning it worked now it doesn't.

Reverted out of the beta and problem still persists.

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