Steam Beta Client Update brings FPS Counter and more

Still using third-party FPS counters on your Steam games? Well it's time now for you ditch that and use the new built-in one on Steam, provided that you've opted into the Beta program.

The new update which was made available on January 2nd, not only includes the FPS counter but also a number of fixes and improvements to the broadcasting feature, which is also part of the beta update.

Here's run down of the new update:

General

• Reduced CPU usage when drawing animated images or videos
• Fixed video playback performance regression on Mac OS X and Linux
• Added FPS counter to Steam Overlay
• Fixed reloading settings values in the Steam Overlay

Broadcast

• Improved capture performance in D3D9 games
• Improved audio/video synchronization
• Improved automatically adjusting video encoding bit rate when a change in available upload bandwidth is detected
• Fixed opening the broadcast watch page from client UI (friends list, invite chat message, etc.) in the Steam Overlay
• Improved capture performance in OpenGL games when hardware support is enabled on machines with newer Nvidia GPUs
• Added first time use and other UI to Big Picture mode
• Fixed first friend invite to a broadcast sometimes getting dropped

Now you can continue to obsess with the frame-rate of your games all within the comfort of Steam.