Valve continues to accelerate Steam launch - beta update released with fixes for Vulkan games and football fans

The developers continue to improve the technical condition of the service.

Valve recently released an update for Steam that included improvements to "improve client launch performance." Soon, the developers released a beta update, in which they continued to work on speeding up the application launch, and also began testing fixes for several bugs.

For example, it was reported that the second stage of Steam launch speed optimization was carried out, and cases where the "Steam Service Error" dialog box appeared by mistake when quickly exiting or restarting Steam were fixed.

Voice chat volume settings for interlocutors are now saved between Steam sessions, rather than being reset upon restart.

On Linux, a bug that caused Vulkan games to freeze after switching between windows using "Alt + Tab" was fixed. Also, a bug that prevented some native games added to Steam as "third-party" from launching was fixed.

Valve also introduced a specific Steam Input fix for the sports simulator NCAA Football 27 (EA Sports College Football 27) — previously, players complained that the control configuration was not applied when launching the game.

The developers did not specify how long they plan to test this Steam update. Valve also introduced an updated version of the achievements interface.