Lots of bug fixes have been included in the update too

Jan 19, 2015 23:59 GMT  ·  By

Valve has just pushed another consistent update for its Steam client, which contains a few new features that have been available in the beta version, as well as lots of bug fixes for Big Picture and In-Home Streaming functions.

For those of you who did not opt into the beta program, the update brings the long-awaited in-game FPS counter to Steam Overlay.

In addition, the Steam Broadcasting feature is now out of beta and all Steam users can take advantage of it beginning today.

Another new feature will allow the UI to display a note to the user indicating the time when Steam has internally scheduled a game update to be queued in the future.

Lots of bug fixes have been addressed in this update as well. Here is the full list of general fixes that have been implemented today:

- Fixed a crash preventing 64-bit Steamworks games from launching on older AMD processors - Fixed starting Steam if instance is already running in other local Windows user session - Fixed restoring game specific hardware mouse cursors when exiting the in-game overlay - Fixed errors in web views not localizing properly - Fixed occasional crash when trying to validate your email address - Fixed rendering the Steam Overlay in some D3D8 games. - Updated Windows Compatibility warnings - Improved synchronization and smoothness of video playback - Reduced CPU usage when drawing animated images or videos - Reduced CPU usage when interacting with the main Steam client window

The Big Picture and In-Home Streaming features received some bug fixes too

But these are not all the changes included in today's update. The Big Picture aspect has been improved as well with lots of fixes and tweaks:

- Fixed to ask the user if they'd like to launch immediately or begin updating the game if an update is available but the game has been played recently - When running in 720p mode scale embedded web views so they are readable - Fixed EULA display occasionally failing to display - Revised navigation on profile menu - Fixed crash when entering a screenshot description - Fixed displaying screenshots for games added by shortcut

The In-Home Streaming feature received a fix for severe frame drop in OpenGL games that occasionally occurred on some hardware. Also, Valve confirmed that the update would bring reduced impact on game frame rate in D3D9c games when not using hardware acceleration.

In order to update to the latest version of Steam, you don't need to do anything except logging in to your account.