27 May 2010

TF2, DoD:S and CS:S Beta Update Released

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source Beta have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

GameUI
  • Fixed the desktop resolution not appearing in the list of valid resolutions when using windowed-mode.

Server Browser
  • Fixed a crash caused by leaving the server browser open while playing.

Engine
  • Added client/server version check on client connect.
  • Fixed a crash caused by hitting ctrl-alt-del while playing.

13 May 2010

Team Fortress 2 / Engine Update Released

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Linux Dedicated Server
  • Fixed srcds_run to work properly with the Counter-Strike: Source beta dedicated server when autoupdating.

Engine
  • Fixed the startmovie command not using the codec dialog.

11 May 2010

Day of Defeat: Source Update Released

Updates to Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Day of Defeat: Source
  • Fixed a client crash caused by the flashlight
  • Fixed an issue where Linux dedicated servers would not automatically retrieve master server addresses.

Source SDK Update Released

Updates to Source SDK have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source SDK
  • The Source SDK was updated today to fix tool problems for some games and mods. We are sorry for the disruption to your work that the SDK issues may have caused for the past week. Thanks very much for your patience.

SDK Launcher
The terminology for Engine Version has changed and now maps to the year of release rather than to particular products. Here are the options now present in the list of engine versions along with the games which utilize them:

Source Engine 2006
  • Half-Life 2
  • Counter-Strike: Source
  • Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
  • Half-Life 2: Episode 1

Source Engine 2007
  • Half-Life 2: Episode 2

Source Engine 2009
  • Day of Defeat:Source
  • Portal
  • Team Fortress 2

Please note that you may need to re-create the game configurations for total conversion mods that were built using 'Source Engine 2007'. Simply run the 'Edit Game Configurations' utility to do this.

Valve games should show up under the appropriate engine version. If they do not correspond to the list given above then you can either manually edit the configurations or run the [I]Reset Game Configurations[/I] utility.

SDK Tools
There are now tools supporting three versions of Source in the SDK distribution. If you are creating content for a game or total conversion based on 'Source Engine 2007' you may need to run some of the command-line tools now located at:
  • sourcesdk\bin\source2007\bin
The command-line tools needed for 'Source Engine 2006' and 'Source Engine 2009' are still located at:
  • sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin
    and sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin