Engine and Client Updates Released

[CSN NewsBot]

The staff of Valve have certainly been busy little beavers this week as they rolled out three updates today alone. The first update was for the Source engine, making the past week's BETA a live and pubilc release now. The second update was for the HL1 engine, and the third update was for the Steam client. Read on for the full list of changes.

Steam Client


• Fixed occasional hang on startup
  
  
• Fixed IP address sorting order in the serverbrowser
  
  
• Improved favorites list responsiveness when manipulating very large lists
  
  
• Fixed server pings being too high if you ran Steam for more than a day
  
  
• Fixed sometimes losing favorites when they were added in game
  
  
• Fixed guest pass column showing in the media/tools page incorrectly

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Half-Life 1 Engine


• Prevent steam:// urls from being triggered from the MOTD
  
  
• Fix for player names with really wide characters getting ellipses and being indistinguishable from one another in the scoreboard and spectator UIs
  
  
  
  Source Engine
  
  
• Replaced cl_interp with cl_interp_ratio. Server can limit it with sv_min_cl_interp_ratio and sv_max_cl_interp_ratio
  
  
• Added sv_rcon_log to allow rcon logging to be disabled
  
  
• Cheat protected many more cvars

[Hutz]

Fixed favorites and cheat protected more CVARS? Woo hoo!



Although now there will be a flood of newbies who don't understand the difference between cl_interp and cl_interp_ratio, and why it changed.

[Zips]

Yeah, but if they're "newbies" then they didn't understand what it was to begin with and probably never even bothered with trying to alter that cvar.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

My personal experience is that the people who know just a little bit are far more problematic than those that don't know anything, heh. Simply knowing that cl_interp_ratio exists will be enough for a flood of forum questions on what this new CVAR should be set to (and arguments about it afterward). Let's just hope it stays confined to Steampowered, rather than also breeching our lofty walls.

[peagle]

-:Nighthawk:- wrote..

Let's just hope it stays confined to Steampowered, rather than also breeching our lofty walls.

What color is the sky on your planet?

[DaRk-AnGeL]

Fixed sometimes losing favorites when they were added in game

Yeah.... and Jesus tapdanced on my breakfast table this morning.....

[V.C. Sniper]

OMG! My first beautiful experience with the 1337 Steam background auto-updater!!1! SOo 1337!! OMG THESE UPDATES r soo arse kicking 1337n3S$!!1!

[Nathan D.]

V.C. Sniper wrote..

OMG! My first beautiful experience with the 1337 Steam background auto-updater!!1! SOo 1337!! OMG THESE UPDATES r soo arse kicking 1337n3S$!!1!

lol..I would love to meet you one day.