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  • CSN NewsBot

    #1

    Getting Steamier

    After some downtime and a small update, our first promised Wednesday update has come. Although the changelog, below, is pretty massive, not many changes have been made that will affect day-to-day play.



    Click through below for the massive changelog.[break="Steam's Changelog"]
      game and engine changes

    • fixed a steam authentication error ("invalid user id ticket") that occurred when connecting to any server which was run from the steam games list

    • added check to make sure only one instance of the game is running

    • added code to try help diagnose the 'filesystem dll not found' sporadic error

    • fixed startup crash where the text file buffer wasn't always terminated correctly causing bad info to be parsed out

    • changed error string "badpassword" to be a friendly string

    • added some more info to help debug 'could not load filesystem' error

    • fixed mouse cursor staying visible when alt-tabbing back into the game when in windowed mode

    • fixed corrupted vgui2 text when using the triapi

    • added fallback to software mode if selected video mode is not supported when game tries to start

    • fixed bug where singleplayer games were listed in the mods list for hlds.

    • fixed bug where the mod previously used wasn't being loaded properly (and saved) the next time you ran hlds.

    • fixed 'load failed' error causing players to timeout from server during level changes

    • fixed problem pulling crates in half-life

    • fixed mp3 volume slider not taking effect immediately

    • fixed changing the bitdepth in video options not making the apply button show up

    • fixed downloading of custom content from a server never saying 'complete'

    • fixed sponsor banner never being shown in the game

    • fixed game menus still be clickable even when hidden by game load dialog

    • added compression to server->client file transfers, reduces connection time downloading security module -- controlled by "sv_filetransfercompression" cvar.

    • fixed crash opening options dialog if "voice_enable 0" was in the config.cfg file

    • changed default player name to be the users' friends name

    • fixed timer graphic not displaying in counter-strike



      mod maker changes

    • fixed "condump" command

    • fixed corrupted vgui2 text when using the triapi (only happened in mods)

    • added greater control of game startup background & layout -- controlled by resource/backgroundlayout.txt, backgroundloadinglayout.txt

    • increase max_hud_sprites from 128 to 256

    • added avi playback option to game startup - the text file media/startupvids.txt contains the list of avi's to play

    • changed missing models to only be fatal error when developer cvar > 1
  • KhAoS

    #2
    does everyoen see why steam is good now? Little fixes that you wouldn't normally want, but are bound to help out a minority of players that need them to play..

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    • GrimmyD

      #3
      most of the steam bashers seem to have no idea how a computer works.



      *example*

      "OMG my compooter is running slow!*

      -big hint. kill off the porn download on kazaa, and run a spyware remover problem.

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      • Spedmaster

        #4
        Well, some stupid fool had to ask this, might as well be me:



        Has this been released yet?

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        • Snakebyte

          #5
          "We have released a game engine update via Steam this evening." -steampowered.com

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          • NyaR

            #6
            amazing... my counter-strike doesnt update though.. it just sits there.

            ooooh shit...



            347 minutes and 23 seconds!!!



            YAY I LOVE WASTING MY LIFE LOOKING AT PROGRESS BARS!

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            • Nunka

              #7
              Me and a few other people are finding ourselves re-downloading some of the CS and DoD cache files... how fun.

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              • aK|penzsnap

                #8
                Well there was two possibilities, you could waste your life watching a progress bar in steam, or watch a progress bar in internet explorer.

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                • Deletable_Man

                  #9
                  lol mine just updated.. took all of 5 secs



                  Good work steam!

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                  • BeaMeR

                    #10
                    THIS SUCKS I UPDATED AND ALL MY FAVORITES ARE RUNNING DIFFERENT PROTOCOL VERSION SO I GOTTA WAIT FOR THEM TO UPDATE oh well another update sounds good

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                    • Deletable_Man

                      #11
                      BeaMeR wrote..

                      THIS SUCKS I UPDATED AND ALL MY FAVORITES ARE RUNNING DIFFERENT PROTOCOL VERSION SO I GOTTA WAIT FOR THEM TO UPDATE oh well another update sounds good
                      :P That happened to me too but I figured it would. Hopefully your favs run on linux servs with auto restart on

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                      • NyaR

                        #12
                        or i could just play cs without stupid updates... or not



                        or go outside



                        or read a book



                        theres countless possibilites

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                        • Julio Caesar

                          #13
                          I had to re-update my CS and DOD caches 5 times allready this week. P-a-t-h-e-t-i-c.

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                          • Nunka

                            #14
                            aK|penzsnap wrote..

                            Well there was two possibilities, you could waste your life watching a progress bar in steam, or watch a progress bar in internet explorer.
                            Internet Explorer sucks.



                            http://www.toastytech.com/evil/

                            http://www.mozilla.org/firebird/



                            Gogo.

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                            • Deletable_Man

                              #15
                              Julio Caesar wrote..

                              I had to re-update my CS and DOD caches 5 times allready this week. P-a-t-h-e-t-i-c.
                              settings -> log out and log back in

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