I have a problem with updating and installing the games. Anyone has any solution on how to update and download games? I'm using "30 May 2023" build. Is this new Valve's update? I'm in Win 10.

I had trouble with installing Progressbar95 and Stronghold Definitive Edition and it feels like this could be related to this version.

Originally posted by Basan™:

See if this patch can solve that issue for you. I'm still using the early June 2023, thus previous Steam's UI and with it I can still PM my friends without any issues. :winter2019happybulb:

Gotcha. Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

I don't know if it happens to others, but I'm having this error and not sure if it's ok. But I'm using the "March 2023" version. Any clues what to do?

Originally posted by TiberiumFusion:

Guide: How to make friends & chat work again

I am relieved to announce that my patch is finally available for everyone to download. Please refer to the following Steam guide I created for information on how to download and install it: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3045036713
I created an application which makes installing & uninstalling the patch as fast & easy as possible, so I highly recommend trying it out. It'll take about 1 minute, and It's much better than using the -nofriendsui workaround.

Don't get me wrong, I love classic friends/chat and I hated when it was replaced by the modern Discord-clone version back in 2018. But there are numerous reports of many things being broken in the classic version, and there is a chance Valve will completely nuke it sooner than later when they bring armageddon in Y2K24.

In contrast, when using my patch, everything (that I could test) in modern friends/chat is working correctly. You can chat, group chat, voice chat, add/remove friends, invite friends to games, set your status, show your game presence, etc etc and it all works. It's just like Valve never fucked it up all in the first place. That was the goal.

If you've been waiting for this, thank you for bearing with me and the great deal of time it took to get to this point. It has been a 2 week long slog and I'd like to wash my hands of this whole ordeal and get back to my life. But I will maintain this patch for the foreseeable future and update it if needed, and respond to comments questions and all that. If there are bugs, please let me know.

Oh fuck yeah. Way to go! I'm gonna favorite to not lose it.

Originally posted by lightwo:

That's more of a thing to do for fun, people will find it if they look for it.

Meanwhile, the guide I have been working on is to be used by users of deprecated OSes and anyone looking to save some RAM, use things broken in newer releases, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if the client update mechanism changed completely since then, anyway.

Oh fuck, right my bad. But I was wondering if it'll no cause harm for your discussions if I'll add in the list of downgrade the ancient UI. I know you meant to do for a optimization one UI, but thought if it will be a ok.

If not, you can just delete my thread. Just saying.

I found a UI that is from a 2008, byt it's completely made for offline and just adding a list of history.

https://archive.org/details/steamemu/stm2008.PNG

Originally posted by krzychuzokecia:

Leaving it here, I'm not sure if it's related, and I haven't confirmed it myself:

according to a Reddit post, it's impossible to make a purchase on Steam store when using old version of the client.

Jesus, Valve is really desperate to force it's users to use modern UI rather classic, because of it's slowly going unusuable.

Mine still shows "FRIENDS NETWORK UNREACHABLE" and I'm only using my phone to see the chat.

I'm genuinly happy that you lightwo, had to make a guide to downgrade UI.

Without it, I would be stuck with piss poor bland quality UI.