After the renewal of Big Picture a little over a year ago, coinciding with the launch of Steam Deck, now it is the turn of the normal PC client interfacewhich thus unifies its style line, but also its code base between it, Big Picture and Steam Deck, which is basically the same, but slightly adapted to your needs.
According to Valve, they have rebuilt the steam client on a new framework, which will facilitate the maintenance of the application and speed up its development, also unifying it between all its versions. By the way, this change also affects the new mobile application, launched at the end of last year to offer a renewed experience to all its users.
What now comes to the users of the default interface of Steam for PC pay attention to the change in background, but also in form, and that is that they have given the client “a new coat of paint” that includes Visual and usability improvements to dialogs, menus, fonts, and colorssomething that you should notice as soon as you update the application (if you haven’t already, you can).
This new version of Steam also improves notifications, which are now more complete and useful than before, as well as being better organized and less annoying. What hasn’t changed is the “game overlay interface” or, in general, Steam’s floating modules, which despite having been redesigned, behave as usual.
But in addition to tweaks, there are new features: the first and most notable is the notes functionthanks to which you’ll be able to make notes about the game (you know, all those stories that you don’t forget, whether it’s to make a comment later, whether it’s for the game itself) and with synchronization support, so you don’t lose them when change devices to continue with the game.
Another novelty is that of overlaying information windows while you play, being able to set the opacity level so that they do not bother much and “without including the title bar or other superfluous sections of the UI”. “And much more”…, they indicate from Valve in the official information that you can read above, so we recommend you take a look (it is in Spanish), even though you will discover most of the new details as you go.
By the way, there is one more thing, although only for Linux and Mac: It is now possible to “enable hardware acceleration on the Mac and Linux versions of Steam, thus bringing them on par with the Windows version. You should now notice a more responsive UI and a more concise experience in animations and when scrolling through pages, “they explain. The technical data of this update, in the release notes.
