New Steam Update Improved Download Section

Valve has released new client update, which improving Steam‘s download and install interface.

New Steam Update

Although Steam continues to face stiff competition from other digital storefronts, with the Epic Games Store regularly giving away free games to entice users to the platform, there’s no denying that Valve’s platform remains the most popular for PC gamers. The storefront was first launched in 2003 as a way for Valve to provide game updates for titles such as Half-Life. As time went on, Steam evolved into one of the biggest digital storefronts in gaming. The platform even set a new record back in July 2024 when it broke its own concurrent player count record with almost 37 million active users.

With many of the best games available on Steam, Valve continually updates the platform with new features and improvements to ensure that users remain satisfied. The latest improvement was released on January 22 and makes a small but useful change to the download UI. Once updated, Steam users will notice that when they go to download a new game or update, there will now be two progress bars. The first will be blue and represents the total amount of data downloaded. The second bar, which will be green, shows the installation progress. Download speeds will vary depending on the user’s internet connection, while the installation speed is often down to the read/write speed of the hard drive or solid state drive.

This new update might seem small but it’s a good improvement for the platform. The combination of both download and installation often led to users becoming confused about why game updates were so large or taking so long to download. The new Steam feature should make it much clearer about what stage an update or download is currently in.

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