Steam Library Beta Coming Sept 17

Malevolence · 31 Oct 2019 at 22:27

The only thing that annoys me is the 'What's new' crap at the top. That needs to go.

Rroff · 31 Oct 2019 at 22:40

Found another issue actually - after awhile (few hours) I can no longer right click on anything i.e. a game in the left hand library list to get to "Properties...", etc. and certain things become very slow responding until I restart Steam.

snowdog · 1 Nov 2019 at 02:35

I love the new library, finally you can filter or sort your games with things like metascore, time played, size, release date, etc...

I hope to get many more filters and sorting options asap

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Much more efficient use of space on 4k than the old UI, which basically wasted a lot of screen estate.

Usually I loathe new UI's, eg. Spotify was only a huge step back, and they re-instated features that hey removed over the years.
But the new Steam library adds many new options that were previously not there, the more features the better imho

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Cosmic Schwung · 1 Nov 2019 at 11:45

The inability to quickly seperate owned games from family shared stuff is baffling, it was there in the old library. Wouldn't mind a quick tutorial as there are quite a few options and not all of it is particularly intuitive. Other than that, I quite like it.

LoadsaMoney · 1 Nov 2019 at 12:00

Malevolence said:
The only thing that annoys me is the 'What's new' crap at the top. That needs to go.

Same, but as i said above, if you right click each one, and remove them, it disappears, but it'll no doubt come back, when theres an update, but up to now though, it hasn't reappeared for me yet.

Spacedeck · 1 Nov 2019 at 12:08

Is anyone having any issues with crashing? My Steam just hangs when I start it up, it can take many retries before it loads correctly.

LoadsaMoney · 1 Nov 2019 at 14:41

Spacedeck said:
Is anyone having any issues with crashing? My Steam just hangs when I start it up, it can take many retries before it loads correctly.

No issues here.

snips86x · 1 Nov 2019 at 14:43

Had a quick look at it last night, seems ok to me. Nice update from what we had before.

almoststew1990 · 1 Nov 2019 at 18:01

Yeeeah I hate this new layout. I used to have a list of just names, sorted based on installed and then not installed. Now it looks like a social media feed or some crap! I'm going to have to search through some options I think.

edit - Low bandwidth, low performance mode, with small icons has improved it quite a lot now. I removes the different "shelves" and just have games, sorted by size on disk which thankfully puts the installed games at the top and everything else below.

FrozenShivers · 2 Nov 2019 at 13:06

almoststew1990 said:
Yeeeah I hate this new layout. I used to have a list of just names, sorted based on installed and then not installed. Now it looks like a social media feed or some crap! I'm going to have to search through some options I think.

edit - Low bandwidth, low performance mode, with small icons has improved it quite a lot now. I removes the different "shelves" and just have games, sorted by size on disk which thankfully puts the installed games at the top and everything else below.

You can show only installed games by making a collection then dragging your installed games over. Hope that helps.

LeMson · 3 Nov 2019 at 19:20

I'm moaned at steam help and moved my steam window to the far right of the screen, so only the list is visible. It's far to gawdy and colourful for my taste

Witcher1980 · 3 Nov 2019 at 23:53

No more small view.... I have been console gaming for a few months so have not seen this new setup, looks utter pants and no small view is a big no for me.

Witcher1980 · 3 Nov 2019 at 23:54

FrozenShivers said:
You can show only installed games by making a collection then dragging your installed games over. Hope that helps.

Not at all, one of the buttons near search will show only installed games. Found it earlier.

Kronos · 4 Nov 2019 at 05:35

Hate it, too cluttered, went back to the previous version.

FrozenShivers · 5 Nov 2019 at 16:02

Witcher1980 said:
Not at all, one of the buttons near search will show only installed games. Found it earlier.

Oh, hadn't spotted that.

TNA · 5 Nov 2019 at 16:26

Took a bit of getting used to but I certainly will not be going back.

Secret_Window · 5 Nov 2019 at 16:59

I don't mind it. Some parts look better, others cluttered.

Devrij · 5 Nov 2019 at 18:19

I'm a big fan. I like that it groups all the community and social stuff into the game page. Saves a lot of page loads. I also like the dynamic collections a lot.

Generally speaking, I like it.

Twinz · 5 Nov 2019 at 19:23

How do I get back to the being able to right click...then select "play in VR"? <<That's what I did with the old system.
Now I left click...Then move the mouse to the box on the right....then click "Play"...then another list pops up where I can select "play in VR".

-Doesn't seem like progress.

FlyingScotsman · 6 Nov 2019 at 10:40

I like it and it uses the 4k real estate a lot better now.