We’ve all been wishing for this day and the great powerful and mighty GabeN has finally delievered, hiding games from your Steam Library is now available as part of the latest Steam Client Beta! No more shall you needlessly suffer by having to scroll the long long list of games you only have on Steam account because they were a $5 on Humble Bundle, Indie Gala, Bundle Stars or the Indie Royale with Cheese.
Have no fear in hiding your unwanted games that clog up your backlog, you can always find them under the new library filter appropriately titled Hidden. Of course these hidden games still count toward the total number of games in your Steam Library. I mean we’re on that magical race to 1000, right?
There’s a few other features in the August 7th Steam Client Beta as well like some updated desktop user interface styles, some In-Home Streaming OS X 10.9 fixes and for all you who heard it Valve has fixed the noisy log message from GameOverLayRenderer.log, man, that one was becoming annoying really fast when I was wearing headphones.
If you’ve not yet joined the Steam Client Beta you can do so by opening Steam Client, click on Steam in the top left, click on Settings, under the Account tab at the botton you’ll see Beta Participation click on Change select the Steam Client Canidate, click Ok and then Restart Steam. You can also check out the directions thanks to Jimo of the Steam Community right here.
Source Link: August 7th 2014 – Steam Client Beta
PRESS RELEASE
Steam Client Beta Update – August 7th
We’ve just published a new beta which includes the following changes:
Steam Client
- Updated desktop user interface styles, simplifying common controls and navigation elements, and neutralizing overall color palette to align with Steam web pages and Big Picture mode
- Don’t delay content updates for games set to high priority
- Fixed crash if you clicked on a game on the downloads page or clicked the details option in the games grid view
Library
- Add “Hide this game in my library” functionality, accessible from the Set Categories menu. Games that are hidden will not show up in library filters except for a new filter called “Hidden”, which will only appear once at least one game is marked as hidden. Hidden games are still available for play and will still appear on the user’s profile.
- Synchronize selection between main window library views and Small Mode.
- Fix game details panel scrolling to the top during game download/update
- Fix crash when switching from downloads or grid view to details view
In-Home Streaming
- Added hardware accelerated decoding for Mac OS X 10.9 and newer
- Implemented periodic refresh to help repair screen smearing issue with NVIDIA hardware accelerated encoding
- Fixed race condition that could cause streaming connections to fail to connect with a timeout notification
Windows
- Removed a noisy log message from GameOverlayRenderer.log
Mac OS X
- Fixed web views not restarting if the underlying helper app crashed
