Valve has simply shipped an enormous UI overhaul to Steam’s In-Sport Overlay within the Steam Beta, amongst different contemporary coats of paint. It additionally comes with one notably superior concept: a touring notepad.
Sure, you’ve in all probability already acquired a notepad app in your PC, however does yours robotically pop up the proper file that corresponds to every sport you play? Are you able to overlay it on high of your sport so it’s seen whilst you play? Does it robotically sync from PC to PC through the cloud? Valve says its new Notes app does all of that, and works offline too.
It’s not the one window you may newly pin atop a sport: Valve says Guides, Discussions, and the Steam net browser can all be summoned into your sport with adjustable opacity — you may even watch video whilst you’re enjoying a sport utilizing that browser, in keeping with Valve.
You’ll additionally see a brand new Sport Overview if you pull up the overlay, a toolbar for fast entry to “something chances are you’ll want in the course of a sport,” a revamped notifications tab and screenshot supervisor. The patch additionally brings elective {hardware} acceleration for the Linux model of Steam, with Mac on the best way, and minor UI tweaks to different elements of the interface. You possibly can see Valve’s full replace submit right here with extra screenshots.
Valve says it’s beginning to ship these types of modifications throughout Steam Desktop, Massive Image Mode and Steam Deck concurrently — however the Deck solely has them in its Linux desktop mode as of right this moment. Valve’s Lawrence Yang confirms that options just like the Notes mode shall be coming to the Deck gaming mode later too, although.
You’ll have to decide right into a Steam Beta to see any of this for now, till Valve provides the modifications to a secure launch.