New UI (Webkit Based)

[Morfiend]

Overall the client seems pretty nice and smooth for me. Two gripes. The Store page is way to big and crowded. Feels like a step back. Icons everywhere and I have to scroll way down to even get to the New Release and Coming Soon pages. Do not like. The other being, I wish my installed games would show up at the top of the list, like the old Steam. Just me I guess, but I liked that better.

[Samwise]

The games list is filterable by category; switch to "installed" in the dropdown and you only see installed games.  It seems like it might not remember this, though, which is annoying.

[Morfiend]

The games list is filterable by category; switch to "installed" in the dropdown and you only see installed games.  It seems like it might not remember this, though, which is annoying.

Yeah, I figured this out but I liked to see everything.

[Fordel]

This is so much faster for me now, good work Valve!

[caladein]

If your overlay text disappeared in the past few days (like mine did), you can add -no-dwrite to your Steam shortcut and that'll fix it until they can get a patch out.

The text also seems less blurry now which is a definite plus.

[Morfiend]

I uninstalled the beta version. I was just having to many issues, and the performance was identical.

[Teleku]

I actually rather like the current interface for steam.....

I'll give this a shot though.

[Tarami]

All the view modes for the library are fucking awful. Scratch that, pretty much all the new layout is incredibly bloated and shitty. It's like a 26-inch iPhone interface. There was nothing wrong with the old interface, even the fact that it was running in an IE window.

[Lantyssa]

I would like the old sort list back.  I could fit a lot more games into the window without scrolling.

[Teleku]

Figure I'll ask here rather than make a new thread.  I'm going to reformat my HD and install Windows 7 (because my release candidate expired and is yelling/resting at me now).  All my steam info is on another drive.  Is there any way for me to re-install steam, and then reconnect it with all the data I've already downloaded?  I'd really rather not re-download 100 gigs worth of games..

[Samwise]

I would think that if you just re-install Steam and point it at the same cache directory that it'll see the cache and go "oh, okay".

IIRC there's also a special option in Steam to make a backup of your cache?

[Prospero]

You can also update your release candidate with a real version without losing your installs. That's what i did and it worked beautifully.

[Prospero]

Valve is sending out Apple inspired ads for their games. The majority are pretty much win.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-upcoming-half-life-release-for-mac/

[Teleku]

Holy fuck, you weren't kidding:


Owns so hard I can't describe it.

[Teleku]

You can also update your release candidate with a real version without losing your installs. That's what i did and it worked beautifully.

......I didn't even think to try this.   

[Prospero]

Google for the hack to do it; it's very simple. It takes one quick edit of a text file and a couple quick registry tweaks. 5 minutes tops.

[Strazos]

I did a reinstall anyway, to get a clean OS.

Steam worked fine once reinstalled.

[Minvaren]

I would think that if you just re-install Steam and point it at the same cache directory that it'll see the cache and go "oh, okay".

Yep, I've done that multiple times - back up the entire Steam folder, restore it after reinstalling Steam.  I recommend doing a "validate game files" afterward just in case.

[Teleku]

Cool, thanks all.  Yeah, I'll probably do a clean wipe anyways.  I like to do clean OS installs, always leery of any sort of upgrade approach, even if I shouldn't be.

[Yegolev]

I did a clean install and I have Steam on a separate disk.  I can't remember if I reinstalled Steam or just started it... probably reinstall.  In any case it should find everything if you use the same directory.  My steam.log has stuff as far back as 2007 in it so apparently I have not wiped the directory tree since then.

Impulse works differently but almost as easy.  Since Impulse games go into their own directories rather than some secret place under steam, you will need to tell new-Impulse where the game dirs are.  After that it should validate and not need a redownload.

[sickrubik]

Wired article on Steam for Mac. Awesome. As a user of both platforms, this makes me stupidly happy.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/03/steam-mac/

Bringing Steam to Mac will give gamers several cross-platform benefits, Newell said.

• If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play.
• By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they’re playing. If you’re playing Half-Life 2 on your home PC but then head out on the road with your MacBook, you can continue your game-in-progress.

[naum]

Wired article on Steam for Mac. Awesome. As a user of both platforms, this makes me stupidly happy.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/03/steam-mac/

Bringing Steam to Mac will give gamers several cross-platform benefits, Newell said.

• If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play.
• By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they’re playing. If you’re playing Half-Life 2 on your home PC but then head out on the road with your MacBook, you can continue your game-in-progress.

Yeah, that's awesome. The part about getting Mac version "at no extra charge".

Most of my computer XP is in the Mac world these days, but I do run Windows when running those apps and games not available on OS X platform. I never know which version to buy — hopefully, this solves the gaming dilemma…

[Surlyboi]

Best part of that, if I understand the release correctly, is that the games are being written natively for the Mac, not as cider ports.

Fucking. A.

[Sky]

Now if you could run OSX on a homebrew pc hardware platform, I'd give a shit.

I know one gamer who only runs macs, and he can't afford a mac that would run TF2. If he could, he'd probably build a gaming pc for the catalog of everything else. I love OSX, but the hardware is an albatross.

[Surlyboi]

Usefully cynical commentary.

[NiX]

Now if you could run OSX on a homebrew pc hardware platform, I'd give a shit.

You can. Hardware permitting of course.

[Samwise]

Now if you could run OSX on a homebrew pc hardware platform, I'd give a shit.

I know one gamer who only runs macs, and he can't afford a mac that would run TF2. If he could, he'd probably build a gaming pc for the catalog of everything else. I love OSX, but the hardware is an albatross.

I know at least one person who buys Mac hardware and installs Windows on it so he can run games.   

[Prospero]

Maybe....

[Sky]

Hardware permitting of course.

[Lantyssa]

I know at least one person who buys Mac hardware and installs Windows on it so he can run games.   

/boggle

[Samwise]

I posted that hoping to see a cage fight between Prospero and Sky, and so far I'm disappointed.

[Sky]

Eh, if I had the money that's probably what I'd do.

[NiX]

Hardware permitting of course.

Look it up and see if your specs fit the drivers they have for the installs. It was pretty varied from what I recall and wasn't a scenario of "You need an Asus M7NCD-EX-PR mobo. Won't work with the non PR version."

[Sky]

Yeah, I've been watching for a while. I've got an X-Fi.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Creative

[Engels]

I know at least one person who buys Mac hardware and installs Windows on it so he can run games.   

/boggle

Not too surprising. Apple hardware is pretty top of the line. Overpriced compared to what you can custom build, but its sexy and all that. Pity about the one button mouse nonsense. Otherwise I would have gotten a mac book pro and put on Windows 7.