so i bought the steam cards for this game on the market hoping to get this wallpaper, an i ended up getting the church one instead, if im to do it again an upgrade the badge will i get a chance to get the wallpaper i want or ? the wallpaper i want is 500 steam points but u need to buy the game which is 10 bucks to then purchase it on the steam store, but im wondering if i can get it through upgrading the badge ?

STEAM FINALLY SEPERATED MULTIPLAYER ACHEIVEMENTS FROM SINGLE PLAYER I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO ACHEIVEMENT HUNT NOW

OK, IDK if I'm crazy or what but I swear that there was an option for a profile theme that made everything look like it was the menus from Half-Life 1. Military green toolbars, big yellow loading bars, everything just like the old menus. I'm looking everywhere on the store but I just can't find it and I have no idea what it's called or what it could be associated with.

Does this actually exist or am I misremembering? I do know there's a Half-Life Alyx profile border that looks like what I'm talking about but what I'm looking for changes the whole layout.

Since we are not the topic of loading times and startup times already. The steam pages are loading very slowly for me and no, there's no problem with my internet. I tried with two different wifi and still the pages take a long while to load. Meanwhile mobile app is so good , it loads almost instantly. This is especially annoying during steam next fests or any events cus the page takes a long time to load and it just annoys me so much.

Also if I click on a game and come back to the event page it reloads 😭, this is very bad. Because sometimes I'll be having amazing recommendations and I click on a game page to download it and come back to the event page again just for the peak recommendations to be lost forever to the void because it just reloads. This disincentivizes me to click on a game cus i don't want to accidentally lose the current recommendations.

Is there are any fix for this? Or is my net just ass. Btw I use steam app on pc , is it better to just browse on chrome instead?

So, someone got into my account a little while ago and I fixed it, But apparently I have a gifting restriction, I have never bought anything for anyone and I'm not sure how to get them to remove it, I have 2fa on my account now but the restriction isn't fair on me, And I'm hoping someone here has advice

Finally got my invitation to buy a Steam controller. Expensive but I just really want to play Morrowind on pc with a controller at last. So I am hopeful.

I have recently gotten into Maplestory but have been annoyed by the movement (my arrow keys are not full size) and general use of the keyboard as I've always played games on a console and still do most, after a while I found out that some people will use steam input and layers to use a controller on Maplestory for easy movement and general use when say laying down, when I tried this I didn't have any issues per se (it works fine), but I believe I could make my layout better, you see since controllers have far less buttons/inputs you need to have multiple layers/layouts to swap to via [button] + [button] to make sure you can use all the needed keys, but the controller I have actually has 8 extra buttons (2 back buttons, 2 extra bumper buttons, and 2 extra face buttons like fighting game controllers have) which would make play so much easier as I'd need to swap layouts/remember button combinations for less things, the issue I'm currently running into however is that my controller is one specifically made in collaboration with xbox for xbox consoles (Flydigi Vader 5 S) and so steam (correctly) recognizes it as an xbox controller and brings up the xbox specific input menu, however this means all the extra buttons only mirror the buttons on any standard controller.

Is there a way to force steam into recognizing my controller as a generic controller to use the extra buttons, does anyone know?

Just found this kinda funny.

For instance, the steam forum for Red Dead 2, is full of people asking if the game still uses the launcher, it does, but you don't notice it. Hitting play on Red dead 2 launches the launcher which instantly launches RD2 without any issues or even having to touch the launcher so why is it so hated, it barely existed.

A lot of people claim they'll never buy the PC version as long as this launcher exists, but why...when it doesn't cause any gameplay issues. At first I thought it had something to do with the launcher effecting mods, but no....there's lots of modders and hackers in the PC version who go ignored by rockstar moderation. (It's all of them, all hackers get ignored, it's surprising that rockstar is applauded in any way).

So i was posting about onimusha it was expensive and someone say they could gift me the game for free as long i give my username away to him

Via the Steam Community:

General

• Second round of Steam startup performance improvements following shipping of prior improvements in public client
• Fixed some cases the Steam Service Error dialog was showing incorrectly if you quit/restarted Steam quickly
• Fixed another error displaying dates for our friends in British Columbia.
• Fixed Steam Frame native-only content showing as installable on Windows.
• Fixed the layout of the volume slider in the voice chat context menu
• Output volume settings for friends in voice chat will now persist between Steam sessions rather than resetting on restart

Linux

• Fixed Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab.
• Fixed a bug that caused some native non-steam games to fail to launch.

Steam Input

• Fixed NCAA Football 27 not getting the game configuration applied at game startup

Why does this randomly pop up? Been showing at random times starting from today. Im on the beta client. Anybody else?

PyroWave is on the stable Steam client! I like it a lot, and I tested it by streaming from PC to my Steam Deck and outputting to a 4K monitor. I used a custom 240 fps lag test timer, a sustained gameplay test, and an image quality test. I also tested it vs Moonlight (Vibepollo/nonary moonlight fork). It's a lot of data, but here are the results!

Lag test (4K60 → Steam Deck LCD, median)

Gameplay test (FF7 Remake Intergrade, host logs ingested/aggregated)

Image quality test (VMAF 0–100, capture control = 94.5, same on both links)

Opinion based on the data and the "feel"

For ethernet - I prefer PyroWave even though the frame lag was close - the picture just looked a little smoother and a little better to me! But I was impressed by Moonlight's latency optimizations for HEVC.

For wifi - unless you're really confident in your wireless setup I'd recommend Moonlight's HEVC (or Steam's) for most people you're going to have a better time. I put a lot of effort into improving my wireless network, but I still couldn't get the latency as low as I'd like. But I still prefer the PyroWave picture on wifi

notes

For gameplay / slow motion video and more details check this out if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VHGS0-4Fik

In my country we use other countries gift cards like ksa USA eu etc for some reason but I never had one and I want to unlimit my account

I spent hours trying to align these dots but they are only displayed correctly (a straight vertical line) when I check my steam profile on the cilent. I did every change (default/custom font, no URL links) but the issue remains on my browser.

FYI, the scale setting in windows is 125%, with text size upscaled to 125%. Reverting both back to their original value of 100% didn't fix. I use Google Chrome, my husband also uses it and he checked my profile without the issue that I have only see on end.

Annnd here's the article I got this from. Apparently it's a tribute to how Bill Gates credited him in Windows 1.0.

for me

1 Xcom 2

2 They are billions

3 Rust

4 Oxygen not Included

5 Xcom 1

6 Kingdom Rush Frontiers

7 Stellaris

8 Slay the Spire

I just noticed this, and would like some reassurance that this isn’t bad

I guess I can see the game because I own it, but it's still curious that a delisted game is being shown in the Warner sales.

Anyone else having issues with steam in England disconnecting from 9pm to now.

Just found out that my Steam Controller reservation was opened about 1.5 months ago. After this message I got the email saying I could purchase it, and I should be purchasing soon. If it were any other company I would have likely just accepted my loses and would've moved on lol

I never signed up for these e-mails, but in recent weeks I have been flooded by e-mails from Steam for demos.

Seriously, cut that shit out. Do better

Edit: for the people immediately calling me stupid - I’ve had Steam for over 16 years, I’ve never changed my setting, so this change has somehow been forced on me recently - this is the frustrating part.

When I was 14 I decided I wanted to cheat on a video game. Yea... it was fucked up and I deserved a VAC ban BUT CMON ITS BEEN OVER A DECADE AND I HAVE NOT CHEATED AGAIN. Felon in the U.S. who have done real cromes will have good behavior for a long enough period and take it to court and have it removed off their record. BUT A VAC BAN WILL LIVE FOREVER. Thank you for listening to my TED talk. It doesn't affect my gameplay but I wanted to rant.