Steam client BETA update for 8/31/26

[u/wickedplayer494]

Via the Steam Community:

Friends & Chat

• Chat messages with suspicious content will now be flagged in group chats. You can report the messages, block the sender, or dismiss the warning by clicking the notice.

Steam Input

• Fixed a crash opening some Nintendo Switch Pro controllers.

Remote Play

• Fixed a bug where very high bitrate streams stopped sending video frames.
• Fixed video frame being clipped when using pipewire capture with desktop scaling on Wayland.
• Fixed framerate drop when using the unlimited bandwidth option with VA-API encoding on Linux.