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A small number of Half-Life 2 customers have been experiencing problems while playing the game, and we have traced these issues to corrupt Steam cache files. We've released a Steam update to help resolve these issues. If you have been experiencing problems such as crashing during gameplay or startup of Half-Life 2, please restart Steam and then click on one of the links below. Steam will then automatically verify your cache files. The verification process will take roughly five minutes to complete.
As usual, restart your Steam client to grab the update.
A small update was released nearly a half hour ago for the Steam client. This update features a handful of bug fixes and optimizations.
Fixed high CPU use during gameplay on some Hyperthreaded systems
Fixed 100% CPU load at login screen
Fixed the wrong dialog being shown when an error occured changing the contact email address
Fixed the Half-Life 2: Demo preloader stopping at 20%
Fixed a silent crash on exit when preloader is running
Does restarting your Steam client sound like a good idea to you? Well, it should because that is exactly what you have to do in order to grab this update!
And here I was sitting, and getting quite thrilled to see my Steam icon update in the tray. It's just a Steam client update. The change log is below for your viewing pleasure.
Fixed in-game overlay causing a crash for users running Windows XP without Service Pack 2 installed
Fixed mouse clicks in-game sometimes not registering in the correct position for the in-game overlay
Reduced CPU useage when using chat and group chat
Reduced CPU useage while idle on the Store and Community tabs
Fixed Steam windows showing up in the task-bar but impossible to restore
There was a nice update made to the Steam client tonight. This update has been in BETA for a number of days (potentially weeks) now and should be relatively bug free.
Improved cache defragmenter to both defragment at the OS level and internal files
Improved defrag progress dialog
Improved download status reporting in games list
Increased background update frequency
Improved voice quality
Added audio recording device selection for voice chat
Added push-to-talk support for voice chat
Fixed apps getting stuck at Updating 0% when downloading
Fixed possible crash when resuming from Standby mode
Fixed Steam preventing some PC's from entering Standby mode
Fixed overlay sometimes getting stuck up and not responding to hot-keys after server join
Fixed uninstalled apps becoming installed when viewing their Properties page after Steam restarts
Fixes, improvements, and additions to the Steam client. Who could ask for anything more?
The Steam client received a nice update tonight. Some bugs were squished and optimizations were made. Steam should automatically download the update, and while it does, be sure to take a look at the changes.
Added Czech and Hungarian language option
Optimized where clients get the list of available applications and subscriptions
Under-the-hood Steamworks API improvements for future titles
Changed desktop .ico files and games list .tga files to be downloaded on demand, instead of being a blocking download during startup
Fixed serverbrowser not refreshing the internet list the first time it was displayed if it was right on startup
Fixed hardware survey not always saving that you said you did not want to participate
Fixed IMs from popping up while in-game
Fixed the bug that removes one character per line of copied text when pasting into a chat text entry
Fixed a crash on shutdown in some Source engine games
Fresh out of its BETA status, the update for the Steam client is now live for everyone!
Updated the Steam client to use our new store website
Updated the fallback URL for content-server banner ads
Fixed empty login dialog at startup
Fixed offline mode sometimes not working
Your client should automatically nab the update if you've been logged in to Steam today. If you haven't started up your client yet, the update will be automatically applied when you do.
A huge update was released today for the Steam client.
Added support for automatically launching a game after a retail install completes
This update is positively massive and may take you hours to download. With that said, you should probably restart your clients now to get the update process started.
Steam is supporting 3rd party games. That is a huge concept for Steam to do. haha. Means I get to play my TS and other fun as hell games again, on world's worst servers.
no but hte icon is finally in the platform.gfc unless i missed it last update
It was there in the last one.
There is no preload tonight as already stated.
There's always been support for 3rd party mods if you've ever tried them they've always been added under the 3rd party mods heading below the normal games. However the last update placed the 3rd party mods above the normal games and this one reverts them.
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