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How to change the new Steam Library interface?

gog it self didnt make anything, they came out and pretty much said as much.
 
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It’s not as simple as you would like. The income from GOG is what allows CD Projekt Group to fund it’s studio CDPR. Other devs have to have publishers fund them. CDPR gets its money in house. So to still have a net 30% profit while funding over 400 people is pretty good.
 
There's another, simpler method to reverting the Steam Library back to the original....but it was only mentioned a couple of times in the hideously large complaint topics on the Steam forums.

You can try this method, it's what I did. No issues.

www.altchar.com

How to go back to old Steam Library UI

Steam's new library is off to a less than a good start. If you are one of the users that don't like it for a myriad of reasons, this guide might help you keep Steam looking like its good old self.
www.altchar.com www.altchar.com

Simpler than the youtube one, if you ask me.

Disclaimer: for anyone that didn't read through the linked site, this method does prevent Steam from doing any updates. Just so you know. If you want Steam to ever update again, you'll need to delete out the files and start Steam up, then it will update again.
 
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I use icons for the games I play most and I don't go into steam all that often..
Probably wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for this thread.
I'll check it out and likely ignore it.
Thanks for the heads up.
 
jmcslob said:
I use icons for the games I play most and I don't go into steam all that often..
Probably wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for this thread.
I'll check it out and likely ignore it.
Thanks for the heads up.
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I don't utilize Steam to play games at work, but I do make use of it to chat with folks sometimes. I find it quicker than texting because most folks I know with Steam have it on personal and work PCs or use the Steam mobile app.

I tried loading up Steam at work just a short while ago and Steam just hung up. After about 5 minutes of not responding and the task manager showing Steam flirting with almost 1GB of RAM I killed it. I tried running Steam again and let it go longer, but I was met with the same results after about 8-9 minutes so I killed it again.

I then resorted to revert to the old UI following the link in my last post. Launched Steam and zero issues. She opened up right away and is work as intended. Steam is running in the background now and only using about 340MB of RAM.

I feel like Steam just doesn't give a F anymore. It feels like they try to copy the looks and functionality of other programs out there as of lately and the results have been pretty shitty, if you ask me.
 
I'm getting a Microsoft-ish vibe from Valve over this new UI. Quite a few people are not happy with it for various reasons but Valve isn't giving customers the option to keep the old UI or use the new UI. I will get used to the new UI but I would have liked to have been given a choice and possibly made the switch when the bugs have been patched out.
 
  • Go into Settings\Library, and put a check next to "Disable Community Content"


That was the biggest one for me. I don't need to see autoplay videos of some random guy doing stupid stuff.
 
The Egg said:
  • Go into Settings\Library, and put a check next to "Disable Community Content"


That was the biggest one for me. I don't need to see autoplay videos of some random guy doing stupid stuff.
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Damn there goes my hopes of fame...
 
I still miss steam 2.0 it was the best version
 
One thing that bothers me about the new layout is the icons for whether it's a 1 or 2 player game, and whether controllers are supported etc... they're light shaded icons and on a background like the one I posted below they're invisible. Poor thinking on Valves part.


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Splinterdog said:
I really do not like the new makeover and since it's no longer in beta i.e, thrust upon all of us now, it seems you can't opt-out.
The reason I don't like it is because it's too in your face, so to speak, with far too much noise and distraction, when a simple library interface the way it used to be, is perfectly sufficient.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to revert to the old minimalist style?
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Don't let Valve rule your library
And while you're at it, you can add every other launcher in there too and get it all in one spot. Even grey/black content
playnite.link

Playnite - video game library manager

Video game library manager with one simple goal: To provide a unified interface for all of your games.
playnite.link playnite.link

64K said:
I'm getting a Microsoft-ish vibe from Valve over this new UI. Quite a few people are not happy with it for various reasons but Valve isn't giving customers the option to keep the old UI or use the new UI. I will get used to the new UI but I would have liked to have been given a choice and possibly made the switch when the bugs have been patched out.
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Valve is stacking failure upon failure lately, if you ask me. Their VR push basically wasn't worth anything. Their hardware box and controllers are all but dead. They're losing opportunities to competitors, not just EGS, and their attempts to innovate the platform are... well look at this :) What more do they need... start making HL3 already damn it.
 
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I love nothing more than the news section for a game being spammed by every screenshot one of my many steam friends took, and potential spoilers as they get achievements
 
steam just had updates that fixed my above complaint "hidden achievements no longer show in news unless you already have it"
 
Small Mode is back on latest Beta :love::love::rockout:
 
Steam has started pushing out "fixes" and preventing any non-current versions of Steam software from launching.

Folks that have been utilizing the old UI style have been reporting that Steam no longer will open. Some people aren't having issues and some are - it appears (my assumption) randomized testing for possible different "fixes" are getting sent out to accounts to see what works against blocking the old UI and what doesn't.

Even if you have a different launcher such as GoG Galaxy and you try to run a game that's linked to Steam, if you're using the old UI and it doesn't open, then Steam won't connect to the server and your game won't launch.

Eventually, in the end you either need to upgrade to the latest Steam version (that is still riddled with bugs and performance issues, when compared to the old UI, when I last tried it about a month back) or dump Steam and never look back.
 
Following my rant in November, I've just got used to the new Steam interface now and really can't be bothered to muck about with it as it launches the games and I've sorted it so that there's a minimum of distraction, almost.
Playnite looks pretty good and I'm playing it with it now just to get the feel.
 
They gave me back Small Mode so I never have too look at whatever that new mess is unless I’m uninstalling something it forces it open.
 
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