A new update has been released for the Steam Beta client

Jun 29, 2014 14:41 GMT  ·  By

Valve developers have released a new update for the beta Branch of the Steam client and they have implemented a number of important improvements for In-Home Streaming.

In-Home Streaming is a feature that allows Steam users to stream games from a Windows-based operating system to a Linux one, thus enabling Linux users to play games that don’t have support for the open source platform.

According to the changelog, support has been added for XInput-based arcade sticks and wheels on Windows clients, support has been implemented for NVIDIA hardware encoding for D3D fullscreen games on GeForce 650+ cards and the latest beta NVIDIA driver (340.43), fast desktop capture is now possible on Optimus laptops with the latest beta NVIDIA driver, a regression causing a hang in Wolfenstein: The New Order has been fixed, and streaming controller support has been added for games using the Unity engine.

These improvements have been made so far only for the Steam Beta client, but they should land pretty soon in the stable branch as well.

If you don’t have the client, you can download the Steam for Linux installer from Softpedia. This is not the actual application, but a small tool provided by Valve.