# Steam Steam Beta Client Update: July 24th

- Product: Steam (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/steam)
- Vendor: Valve
- Date: 2026-07-24
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/676253085555753508
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/steam/releases/2026-07-24-steam-beta-client-update-july-24th
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

---

- **added** — Allow changing account while a game is running with a warning dialog showing that proceeding will close active games
- **changed** — Steam shutdown now waits for just-exited games to finish cloud sync
- **added** — Add "Ask which account to use on startup" toggle to startup account chooser
- **changed** — Eliminate "change account" confirmation dialog in most cases and bring up the account chooser directly, then restart as the chosen account
- **fixed** — Fix local game transfers no longer working
- **fixed** — Fix Proton games with mixed case paths failing to install or update with Disk Write Errors

We have just shipped an updated Steam Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

**General**

- Allow changing account while a game is running. In this case, the change account dialog shows a warning that proceeding will close active games.

- Steam shutdown now waits for just-exited games to finish cloud sync.

- Added "Ask which account to use on startup" toggle to startup account chooser.

- Eliminated "change account" confirmation dialog in most cases. Changing account while Steam is running now brings up the account chooser directly, then restarts as the chosen account.

**Downloads**

- Fixed local game transfers no longer working.

- Fixed Proton games with mixed case paths failing to install or update with Disk Write Errors.