{"id":673933,"date":"2026-09-05T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/673933\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:14:09","slug":"steamvr-beta-2-17-8-released-to-ready-up-for-the-steam-frame-added-support-for-usb-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/673933\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamVR Beta 2.17.8 released to ready up for the Steam Frame &#8211; added support for USB streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve are clearly making preparations for the Steam Frame to finally get a proper release this month &#8211; with a new Release Candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/250820\/view\/697648355380036491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Beta build<\/a> of SteamVR. If you say Steam Frame three times in a mirror &#8211; maybe Gabe will finally reveal the price and release date.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t yet have any official dates but there&#8217;s been plenty of rumours floating around about Monday, and several YouTube creators have teased they have the Steam Frame for review (but not us &#8211; Valve didn&#8217;t reply still). So I&#8217;ll be keeping an eye out.<\/p>\n<p>SteamVR Beta 2.17.8 changes<\/p>\n<p><strong>SteamVR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Improve dashboard placement and motion behavior.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Prevent several cases that would cause video corruption on NVIDIA cards when using Steam Link.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>When an overlay\u2019s grab handle is selected, the joystick now pushes and pulls it faster.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Fix keyboard summon\/dismiss triggering dashboard motion.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Fix crash using Steam Link on Linux when games submit invalid textures.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Fix stutters when using Steam Link on NVIDIA cards.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Improve streaming recovery when using Steam Link on Linux.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Move less frequently used window controls to \u201cAdditional Options\u201d Menu, and added option to toggle curvature.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steam Link:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Adds initial support for USB streaming.&#13;\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>USB streaming can be used without WiFi by opting into the Steam Client Beta.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Fix loading spinner flickering when framerate in game is low.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Fix case where wrong framerates could show in SteamVR Settings.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Latency improvements.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83c\udf10 <strong>External Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/250820\/view\/697648355380036491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">store.steampowered.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tArticle taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GamingOnLinux.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve are clearly making preparations for the Steam Frame to finally get a proper release this month &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[260],"tags":[18,19,17,82,286,287,288],"class_list":["post-673933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117218617774394704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}