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Posted by Captain P on Fri Oct 7th at 12:05am 2005

Valve currently is running a beta with their new Steam UI, which is being developed to suit more games coming up.
You can see the new interface by running Steam with the following parameter:
-clientbeta betaui

Personally I like the new look. It has nice icons, it's easier to see and the tools have a tab of their own rather than being stuffed at the end of the list. The games list is now much more handleable now that it's sortable by Developer, name and status.

All in all, it's still a beta but this really looks like it's becoming more and more user-friendly. A step in the good direction if you ask me.



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Posted by French Toast on Fri Oct 7th at 12:30am 2005

Really buggy, but much better.




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Posted by ReNo on Fri Oct 7th at 12:45am 2005

Yeah thats pretty neat - gets the thumbs up from me <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> Thanks for pointing it out Captain. I've not really "used" it yet, so what sort of bugs are there French Toast?




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Posted by FatStrings on Fri Oct 7th at 2:28am 2005

i know how it could get better
if it wasnt steam




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Posted by French Toast on Fri Oct 7th at 2:53am 2005

Mostly it's just realy slow (the old one wasn't, for you whiners), and I have to click certain things twice, just annoying little things.

FatStrings, get over it.




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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Fri Oct 7th at 2:56am 2005

? quote:
i know how it could get better
if it wasnt steam


<img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif">

Visually, I think it's a vast improvement, it actually has character now. It's also highly responsive and well-designed. If they get the friends feature working, I'll be content.




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Posted by Crono on Fri Oct 7th at 3:04am 2005

I like the steampowered.com feature within steam ...

Has anyone else had to "install" steam games ... just because the file was suddenly missing from a configuration file or something. I had HL2 installed ... and it just said I didn't ... when I install, it appears to only add it to a configuration file somewhere, since it isn't downloading anything.

Weird.

It looks ... okay ... I had a different steam skin before so, I liked that. I guess I'll have to wait for a similar one for this set up.

Some of it doesn't sit right with me though. Maybe, if there was a steam skin that made steam look like the HL2 menus (like the console) ... it looks like that's what they're after here ... kind of.

I don't like how they took the "monitor" option away. It still says what percentage you're at, but no speeds ... unless I'm just not seeing that somewhere.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Fri Oct 7th at 3:11am 2005

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I like the steampowered.com feature within steam ...

Has anyone else had to "install" steam games ... just because the file was suddenly missing from a configuration file or something. I had HL2 installed ... and it just said I didn't ... when I install, it appears to only add it to a configuration file somewhere, since it isn't downloading anything.

Weird.


Hl2 or CS:Source won't load up for me at all. Not sure if it was anything I did though as I was messing with drivers and tweaking stuff. When I try to run them through steam they appear momentarily in the taskbar before disappearing without any errors being displayed. Executing HL2.exe from the actual folder gives me a memory error.




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Posted by SpiKeRs on Fri Oct 7th at 9:20am 2005

Hmm looks a hell of a lot better, still needs more work obviously. They really need to put some border round the windows though, the bottom menu which is black just merges in with snarkpit background <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Loco on Fri Oct 7th at 10:16am 2005

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If they get the friends feature working, I'll be content.

Allegedly there is some sort of "under repair" notice in the friends section with the new Steam UI, but I wouldn't know since I can't get online from here.



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Posted by Captain P on Fri Oct 7th at 10:44am 2005

It's a beta version, just to look at the UI. It doesn't work correctly by far just yet so keep using the normal Steam UI untill this one is released as full. Some options don't work correctly or just totally not for me too, but that's not the poin of this beta... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by G4MER on Fri Oct 7th at 12:49pm 2005

How do I use this parameter?




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Posted by ReNo on Fri Oct 7th at 12:59pm 2005

Either create a shortcut to steam and add the parameter at the end of the shortcut, or run steam from your windows "run" command and enter the parameter after the path to the .exe.




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