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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:18 Post subject: Steam adds screenshot functionality, improves mic quality |
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Get the latest Steam beta: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1740023
Quote: | - Changed microphone voice input from 11khz to 16 khz
- Changed voice output from 8khz to 16khz
- Moved game invites from friends outside of the chat stream, into their own panel in the chat dialog
- [Mac OSX] Fixed a problem where attempting to resume a paused/interrupted download could always report ‘server unavailable’
- Fixed games not launching automatically after resolving a cloud conflict
- Fixed download rate sometimes erroneously reporting very high speeds
- Added password strength meter when you change your password
- Added UI prompting you to choose a new password if you've had support change your password
- Added Steam screenshots feature. Press F12 in any game to take a screenshot. Screenshots are automatically uploaded to the steam cloud after exiting the game, or can be manually uploaded while in-game through the in-game overlay. Screenshots can be managed through the community site and can be published to your Steam Community Profile to share with your friends. Games that use DirectX 8 and earlier are not yet supported. |
It also works for non-Steam games if you add them into the list of your Steam games.
Pretty cool, and thank God that they didn't include Facebook integration for the screenshots you take.
This thread can also be used to discuss whatever additional functionality is added in the future.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:41 Post subject: |
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:42 Post subject: |
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oh yay. more steam related shit for me not to give a shit about.
fraps > valve
and microphone support in steam games is the worst invention since the plague, because enabling dipshits to talk in-game is the closest we have come to hell on earth.... and yes i know you can disable voice chat... i did that on DAY FUCKING ONE.
i wonder how valve would react to the suggestion for new functionality, to stop adding pointless gimmicky bullshit, and stream line the fucking thing so that it works properly and isnt loaded down with stupid shit for once?
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:45 Post subject: |
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It doesn't work properly now?
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:46 Post subject: |
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Actually steam works very well and I welcome most of the additions done to it. Thank you fat gabe for being fat and giving us steam.
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:48 Post subject: |
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PumpAction wrote: | Thank you fat gabe for being fat and giving us steam. |
Lame joke is lame but-

TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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ixigia
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:58 Post subject: Re: Steam adds screenshot functionality, improves mic qualit |
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consolitis wrote: | Pretty cool, and thank God that they didn't include Facebook integration for the screenshots you take. |
Next update?

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 15:03 Post subject: |
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More like "Don't Like!" 
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 15:03 Post subject: |
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haha, both pics are great! 
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 15:04 Post subject: |
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 15:45 Post subject: |
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Steam hasn't crashed for me since the dark ages (aka up to 2006-7)
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 15:58 Post subject: |
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I used steam chat for the first time few weeks ago and it was utter shit...
First of all, the 5 second delay is complete shit that we were experiencing and also we wanted to use Ventrilo as a voice chat but there is NO option to complete turn off steam voice chat
I mean, I speaking on Ventrilo with my headset BUT could hear my own voice five seconds lateras well as others, who spoke in Ventrilo..
I could hear voices coming from my speakers even after moving volume all the way down in steam :/...ohh well its total garbage
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 16:44 Post subject: |
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Not being able to configure your mic setup properly and steam being shit are two different things I'd say 
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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 16:56 Post subject: |
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PumpAction wrote: | Not being able to configure your mic setup properly and steam being shit are two different things I'd say  |
Never said Steam was shit, just the voice system, played with settings for couple of hours and end result was always the same, could hear people on ventrilo and five seconds later on speakers..i gave up eventually
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Posted: Thu, 24th Feb 2011 22:25 Post subject: |
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It's live for everyone now.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/5047/
http://store.steampowered.com/news/5044/
Quote: | New Features and UI updates
Steam Screenshots
* Added support for Steam Screenshots. Press F12 while in any game that runs the Steam Overlay to take screenshots, then publish them to your Steam Community profile, or anywhere else on the web. Each user is allotted 1 GB of Steam Cloud storage for screenshots.
Library Search capability and related navigation updates
* Added Search capability to the library for quick filtering of your list. Press Tab to move focus to and from the search field, press Esc to clear the search.
* Moved access to all library sub views (Games, Media Tools, Downloads, etc.) into the library's dropdown control
Voice quality improvements
* Changed microphone voice input from 11 kHz to 16 kHz
* Changed voice output from 8 kHz to 16 kHz
* Fixed the settings-dialog microphone test to correctly re-init the calibration client if the active voice device changes
* Reduced voice prefix buffer size from 200 to 100 ms, but increased trailing from 200 to 400 ms - reduces latency when transitioning from silence to active voice, but still should keep it from sounding like chat is cutting out mid-sentence
* Increased thresholds for voice activity detection, making it less sensitive
* Increased amount of gain applied to voice
* Changed disconnect message when a friend ends a voice call to ' has ended the call'
* Windows: Fixed microphone to reinitialize correctly if Windows signals that a device in the system has changed
* Windows: Changed voice output device for Steam to be the default communication device
Web addresses
* Added an option to display the client's URL address bar, and turned it off by default, given its limited utility
* Web views now include a "Copy Page URL" command in the context menu, to copy the page's web address to the clipboard
Game invites
* Moved game invites from friends outside of the chat stream, into their own panel in the chat dialog for improved discoverability
Account security
* Added password strength meter to the Change Password wizard
* Added a prompt to choose a new password if you've recently had Steam Support change your password on your behalf
General bug fixes
* Fixed game invites not working from lobby-based games
* Fixed games not launching automatically after resolving a cloud conflict
* Fixed download rate sometimes erroneously reporting very high speeds
* Fixed a crash on startup or when viewing Games page
* Fixed client hang which could occur while hovering on links in any HTML-based display area
* Corrected check box states in the Friends window menu to properly remain in sync
* Fixed bug where some downloadable content was not downloaded until the client was restarted
* Fixed a rare and small, but steady memory leak caused by the Steam Overlay in some full screen D3D10/D3D11 games
* Mac OS X: Fixed a problem where attempting to resume a paused/interrupted download could always report ‘server unavailable’
* Mac OS X: Fixed password input fields in the Steam Overlay to correctly receive input |
edit tried it, it works as expected 
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Posted: Tue, 22nd Mar 2011 19:34 Post subject: |
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Another update today, they changed the audio codec to the one Skype uses.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/5161/
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* Changed Steam Voice chat to use the SILK voice codec
* Fixed Mac OSX overlay occasionally disappearing after 10+ minutes in game
* In game overlay for Mac OSX now handles cursor visibility better; specifically in the Sam & Max series.
* Fixed Mac OSX overlay responding correctly when window is reactivated by mouse click.
* Maximizing the Windows client should no longer prevent the user from accessing an auto-hidden taskbar
* The overlay will now automatically return to the game when accepting a friend invite
* Improved voice ducking prevention
* Fixed position of game invites in the chat dialog
* Improved handling of last modified times for cloud files. |
http://store.steampowered.com/news/5100/
Quote: | Steam's voice chat system now leverages the SILK audio codec, developed and used by Skype, makers of the world's most popular voice communication service. The SILK codec provides a significant quality improvement over Steam's previous voice technology, at the cost of some increase in bandwidth usage. Steam Voice used to require 15 kbps of bandwidth, whereas SILK is a dynamic bit rate protocol which varies in its use of bandwidth between 8 and 30 kbps, depending on the range of data in the voice signal and current network conditions.
As of today's Steam client update, voice chat using SILK is available to all users of Steam. To start using Steam chat with SILK, simply click the 'Start Voice Chat' button within a friend or group chat on Steam. You can access chat from both the friends list at the desktop, or while in game using Steam’s in-game overlay. You'll find voice chat connectivity and reliability have also been improved with this release.
Steam chat with SILK is now also automatically available for all games that take advantage of the Steamworks Voice API. Valve's own Portal 2, set to release in mid-April, uses this newly updated system to enable voice chat in its cooperative gameplay mode. |
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Posted: Fri, 10th Jun 2011 22:33 Post subject: |
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Welp 
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Posted: Fri, 10th Jun 2011 22:48 Post subject: |
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consolitis wrote: | Welp  |
Maybe the layout will be slightly different, but soon the interface that I posted above will become reality..it's.. inevitable 
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Posted: Sat, 11th Jun 2011 03:37 Post subject: |
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http://store.steampowered.com/news/5644/
Link Your Profile with Facebook and Find Your Friends on Steam
Quote: | Now it is easier than ever to find your friends on Steam. Just link your Facebook profile with Steam and see your friends who have done the same. Don't worry, we won't post anything to your Facebook wall without your approval.
Click here to link your profiles and get started.
Linking your accounts will also raise your maximum friend count in Steam to 300. |
I said the following 8 days ago: http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1521434#1521434
Quote: | I think some kind of Facebook/Twitter integration will definitely come in the future to Steam, there are a lot of people who use them and would appreciate this feature, and if it's made optional (as everything Steam Community currently is, you can completely ignore the Steam Community tab in your client if you want to) it won't bother those that don't. |
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Posted: Sat, 11th Jun 2011 04:35 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the updates, consolitis =)
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Posted: Sat, 11th Jun 2011 04:38 Post subject: |
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No problem, but you should thank JB as well, since he bumped this thread today with info for an upcoming update he noticed 
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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