It doesn't seem like there currently is an option to sort them like how it was with the old-library. The only way to do so is to manually create a new category/collection and label "Your" games vs. "Your Husband's" games. If you have a large library, this will take quite a while.
It seems like a few people have asked about it on Reddit/Steam, so maybe that's something they'll reintroduce in the future. More discussions on this topic here and here
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I add some links:
- Steam community > Steam Family Sharing > All discussions
- Steam community > Steam Family Sharing > All > New Steam Library and Family Share Games
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nope, im only able to play his games whenever he is not playing. and it doesnt matter what he is playing.
the moment he starts playing any of his games, im unable to play his games.
if im already playing one of his games when he starts playing himself, im even thrown out of the game (though it informs you about it and gives you 5 min to exit)
so how it is now its really unpractical
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Did you know that you can start a game via family sharing, then go offline with the game playing? Then your husband can log back in. I allow a couple people in my family to use the games on my account, and they do that sometimes. Not sure if it works with all games.
I know that doesn't help your current situation, but thought I would mention it in case you wanted to play a game same time as your husband.
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This is an option but it gets beyond tedious for the game owner. If I'm playing a single player game and someone wants to play a game I'm sharing then I can just break my connection whilst they start the game and go offline but I play a lot of online games and it's just not feasible for me to disconnect or exit the game just to let someone else start playing.
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Yes, but then the family sharing option isn't necessarily feasible for you in the first place. Like if you're gaming all the time, how would anyone get time to go on family sharing normally, let alone with the offline trick, right? It might be feasible for the OP since it's her husband. Why wouldn't he just let her log in and have her game running before starting his game? There are ways and means when you live with someone to work around these things and be nice to each other. :P
Personally, I've never had an issue with the family sharing thing. It's not like I get totally pestered so people can use my library. XD.
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I'm far from gaming all the time I just have an irregular work schedule so I can't say my library is available between x and y. If I'm playing something single player I don't mind at all stopping to let someone else in. I agree this is a workaround for some but was just pointing out how it may not be suitable for others. It also doesn't really address OP's issue which is knowing which games are shared at a glance so they can just choose to play something else instead.
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"I know that doesn't help your current situation, but thought I would mention it in case you wanted to play a game same time as your husband."
I did acknowledge that in my original post though, so not sure why you brought that up. Just shared it as a useful bit of info. XD. Besides, mine wasn't a general suggestion. If you notice, it was made in direct response to one of the OPs posts and not a general thread suggestion, so wasn't suggesting it as a fix for the issue. lol.
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I share my library with my sister and found a workaround which works for us so far. There is a small bat-script out there, which basically creates couple of new firewall rules to prohibit any outgoing connection made from steam application. My sister just runs it after she starts the game and boom, I can play my stuff right away too. After she is done, she runs another small script, which removes those firewall rules. Could share it if you want.
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Mm, i'm not sure, but i don't think so. As I said, those rules only limit main steam.exe application, so they don't really apply to the game you run. Likely you'll be limited when using steam-provided services, like if game implements 'playing with friends' via steam API, but shouldn't be otherwise. Let me upload it somewhere.
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Okay, here you go. Run this one to block outgoing connections made from steam - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AHdfPZNePEmzfiCgaG8ExMk2bNflYLp2/view?usp=sharing ; Run this one to remove those rules - https://drive.google.com/file/d/12m178Uyhro03FBviG0Vk4TgDi_TrS2Ay/view?usp=sharing
Feel free to have a look inside before running it. You might need to adapt the path to steam executable.
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Yeah, you might get VAC banned in a multiplayer game with anti-cheat if it detected the script, but otherwise, it is probably okay to use.
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You cannot 'detect' this script. It just blocks the connection on operating system level. Also, it's not like it's running all the time, you just run it once. Also, you can do the same steps manually via windows firewall, it would just be tedious.
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You get the achievements as soon as you run the game without blocking steam services. You don't otherwise. Not sure about cloud saving, as not every game has it. Just try it out, prohibit steam connections as you see in the script in windows firewall, run the game with cloud saves and see if it works. You don't even need second account for that.
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/library-ui-revert
I don't have read the articel or tested it.
No time this week, only work work work, far from enough sleep and a lot of pain. Next week i will look at the steam library changes
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Ugh, I feel you there. I feel like every day is so busy, and I'm falling behind on sleep, and neither is good. I'm at least keeping the pain at bay for now.
I hope your situation improves and you're able to lose the pain and get some rest instead.
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Read this discussion. Alexandra wrote it and mentioned it in the discord.
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/library-ui-revert
I don't have read the article or tested it.
No time this week, only work work work, far from enough sleep and a lot of pain. Next week i will look at the steam library changes
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You could perhaps
PS: Congrats on your first discussion thread!
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I encountered the same problem. I share my rather big library with a friend. And he rightfully complains that he cannot find his own ~30 games in the list (which is now 10k games bigger than before). It baffles me that they didn't think about that and still haven't fixed it.
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i just got an update for steam and they finally implemented seperate Libraries.
in youre library click on the drop down menu (under the search bar at the top left) and enable "sort for Libraries" (or whatever it is called in english)
your own games are the listed in a cathegory or "without cathegory".
shared libraries are listed beneath and can be collapsed and expanded
the only thing i could complain about is that the visibility of the separation isnt really good. so i had to tripple check to see it.
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Hello
this i my first discussion here, but sadly i dont have any GA to offer right now 😕
so to the problem...
my husband shared his steam library with me (i can play his games whenever he isnt playing).
and before the new library update his games were always listed below my own games in a seperate category by default.
with the library update all games that i havent manually added to a category before are now mashed together without any markers or anything.
the only way for me to know whether its his or my own game is to actively click on the game and it would say so beneath the install button.
i also dont see a means to filter them out.
🤷♀️
so my question is....
does anyone know how to sort them out?
thanks in advance
🙇♀️
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