Official patch notes for Steam & Steam Deck from Valve, published on Steam on October 16, 2026.
We have just shipped an updated Steam Client to the Preview/Beta channel.
General
- Second round of Steam startup performance improvements following shipping of prior round 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
- Fixed a bug that caused some native non-steam games to fail to launch.
Desktop Mode
- Fixed Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab.
Steam Input
- Fixed NCAA Football 27 not getting the game configuration applied at game startup
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