EvaUnit02 on 24/2/2010 at 15:53
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http://store.steampowered.com/uiupdate/)
Sampling the overhauled UI might be tempting and all, but the beta suffers from some horrendous bugs that can break things. It may corrupt some of your game archives and force you to download them again.
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Game files re-downloading
Hey folks. Seen a number of threads pop up recently regarding the UI beta and the way it seems to start re-downloading some of your games.
Figured it would make sense to create one thread for everyone to post in, instead of a number of separate threads for each game.
As far as I can tell, upon opting into this beta, Steam DELETES a large quantity of game data.
Games known to be affected:
* MW2 - approx. 7gb removed
* Company of Heroes expansions - approx. 9gb removed
* Race 07
* Source SDK
* HL2 - approx. 3gb removed
* Borderlands
* Left 4 Dead 1
* Mare Nostrum
This is a pretty major bug, so people need to be warned and it needs to brought to the attention of Valve ASAP!
Post back with the problems you had and I'll add it to the list.
[EDIT] I reverted back to the old Steam client, and the files are still missing. Definitely been deleted
Hurray for no longer running on-top of Internet Exploder though. They've adopted Webkit.
june gloom on 24/2/2010 at 15:56
It needs some issues ironed out, that's for sure. I'm not sure what to make of it myself- I rather liked the old method of listing, where you had your favourites at the top, your non-favourite but otherwise installed games next, and finally the non-installed games at the bottom, all on one page.
And some of the pictures they chose as backgrounds are... mediocre. Some serious jpeg artifacting, for example on Defcon's page.
As to archive corruption... well as long as TF2 isn't affected then there won't be a problem.
mothra on 24/2/2010 at 17:01
i have l4d1 and it did not delete anything....
well, i don't care about the storefront or what fonts they use, steam should be a small app in the taskbar where you can launch your games DIRECTLY. it never did that, now they even removed the mini-list and exchanged it with those funky unnecessary web2.0 kiddie design so it is a major step backwards regarding my tastes. win7 jumplist is gone as well. they still did not code any proper backup system in, it's still the old buggy and unusable one (it does not make backups machine and installation path independent). i don't care about the social stuff, on the contrary, if they continue shifting steam to a social spy platform I'm gonna turn off friends by default.
positive things: it's quicker, uses less resources and they ditched the internet explorer, yay !
catbarf on 24/2/2010 at 21:22
Being able to quickly see who has a game when I go to round up players is very, very, very, very useful.
Sulphur on 24/2/2010 at 21:33
I tried it, and after it got over not being able to contact the Steam servers, the new client promptly refused to recognise and list half my games. Needless to say, I opted right out.
Apart from that cockup... the UI's a little less navigable now. Some of the changes are welcome - thank God they dropped IE - but the interface needs a little more streamlining.
EvaUnit02 on 24/2/2010 at 21:35
People are warned of severe bugs that break things in the beta, yet they choose to opt in anyway. Christ.
Sulphur on 24/2/2010 at 21:50
Well, pardon me for wanting to try it out after checking that the 'horrendous bugs' didn't apparently affect most of the games I owned.
Also, were you born with some flaming elephantine bell-end permanently lodged up your ass? You're grouchier than ZB these days, and he's always had a freakin' bargepole up his, which was something I honestly thought couldn't ever be topped.
TTK12G3 on 24/2/2010 at 23:27
It looks... bloated. :p
ZylonBane on 24/2/2010 at 23:31
Anyone who thinks this update is designed to actually improve Steam for the end user is delusional. This update is designed to "monetize" (ugh) Steam's user base to the maximum degree possible. There's a reason "Store" has always been the very first tab.
