New Steam UI

[ZeRo_InSaNiTy]

Hi,

As many of us know. Steam has recently opened a beta for a new steam UI. If you don't here is a good sum up of what happened. I would like people to opt into the beta and post theirs thoughts about it. Please do not comment on the performance issues on lower end machines as VALVe has stated that the beta is not optimized and still has bugs hence the 'beta' name.

Information Link
http://www.techspot.com/news/38007-steam-client-gets-a-major-ui-update-open-beta-available.html

EDIT: Damn I forgot to do a poll. Is there a way to add that now or am I *%$#ed?

 

[mamoo]

Wow, just activated the beta and it looks ****ing insane!

 

[nath2009uk]

I did it several hours ago, love it.
Hate the new shiny steam icon though. Prefer the old black one

 

[The Masta]

I like it.

If you have problems with the menus not showing text you have to open
\Steam\resource\styles\steam.styles with the editor and change
basefontbold="Arial Bold" to basefontbold="Arial".

 

[Fedorov]

I think its a resource hog, it runs slow as crap

 

[Amerikaner]

Wow....I was just thinking yesterday how the UI looks outdated and itd be cool to get a new one. Loving it so far. Although nath2009, are you talking about the desktop shortcut cause mine stayed the same?

 

[-[SiN]-bswearer]

for the most part i like it, especially the way the library and store is set up. but those icons all need to go back to being darker. not just the steam icon, but notice most of the acheivement icons look way too faded.

 

[Discoisntdead]

Yawn. New, flashy Steam for the kids. No, thanks.

 

[Serpent7]

I like it, seems faster and flows faster

 

[dextronaut]

i like it but its taking me forever to get used to. i like it better when it said Games instead of "Library", like wtf??? i have games, not books.

 

[No Glory]

I terms of a poll you are screwed But I think it'll be fine w/o one.

 

[Zetsumei]

everything is so huge on it :X. I want a compact one that takes less space

 

[Dumba [cro]]

Worse off performance-wise.... and the current steam is far from quick, to begin with.

 

[BlackLabel]

i have games, not books.

Thats the problem with kids today...

 

[Nenjin]

Tempted, but I'll wait until it gets some netcode polish.

 

[fiftyone]

I'm keeping it, vote = yes .

Don't forget guys, its beta!

 

[-[SiN]-bswearer]

somebody made a nicer looking version of the new steam logo in the steam forums.....same design, just much darker instead of that nasty gray. hopefully they notice all the support it had to replace the new one.

 

[Apos]

Well, for me new steam gui is OK. Works faster, ingame steam community looks great and has clock now hehe. I like it.

@zetsumei for compact view press "details" and show only installed games in library tab. Works for me.

 

[Lt_Kettch]

Dislikes

-some non-steam mods show up wrong
-no mini-game list anymore
-too much information

But overall it looks better and adds a few new interesting things.

 

[{Core}Craig]

It breaks MW2. Decides that the files are not correct and u need to re download.

Very american.