Source Engine Update Available

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

Source Engine

• Fixed command allowing clients to change sv_cheat convars
• Fixed engine trying to load incorrect skill.cfg file and defaulting game variables

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/632/

Source Engine Update Available

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

Graphics

• Fixed occasional graphics artifact tearing run running on Nvidia 6800 hardware
• Fixed mismatch of bumpmapped/non-bumpmapped surfaces in HDR
• Fixed bug where mat_colorcorrection wasn't getting set properly on when running for the first time
• Updated default configuration settings for some newer video cards
• Fixed full-screen flicker bug when Alt-Tabbing out of fullscreen (particularly at high resolutions)

User Interface

• Added progress bar state to print a description when the server changes levels
• Show disconnect dialog when client connection times out
• Fixed anti-aliasing on fonts
• Fixed a memory leak in vgui
• Fix for startup video not showing correctly if running fullscreen with desktop resolution less than or equal to 1024x768
• Fixed bug where game would crash when taking a bug screenshot if the screen/window resolution was wider that 2048 pixels

Sound

• Fixed sound initializing twice at startup in some cases
• Optimized sound engine performance
• Fixed a bug where machines without proper sound hardware and/or drivers would crash

SourceTV

• Added SourceTV port and delay time to status output if SourceTV is active
• Added new command net_status that shows more detailed information about total and average packet loss, latency, packets/sec and bandwidth
• Added convar tv_autoretry 1 so relay proxies try to reconnect after connection crashed/timed out
• Added convar tv_timeout to specify connection timeout limit in seconds
• Improved spectator client dispatching, should be faster and balance better
• Fixed SourceTV relays being unable to connect to sv_lan 1 servers
• Fixed SourceTV servers reporting password restrictions
• Fixed SourceTV bots joining game even if disabled
• Fixed disappearing weapons in SourceTV
• Fixed spectator chat not displaying on relay proxies
• Fixed SourceTV crash during changelevel
• Fixed command tv_record crashing relay proxies
• Reduced SourceTV CPU requirements

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/630/

Day of Defeat: Source Free Weekend On Now

Day of Defeat: Source is now available for a free trial via Steam. Visit Steampowered.com to get the game and play through the weekend for free.

• http://www.valvesoftware.com/news/?id=509 --- http://store.steampowered.com/news/509/

Day of Defeat: Source Update Available

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

New Map

• Added dod_kalt with High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting

Day of Defeat: Source
Fixed players getting stuck on models

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/504/

Source Engine SDK Update Released

A major update to the Source SDK has been released on Steam. Included in this update are several features and fixes for the tools in the Source SDK.

New SDK Features

• High Dynamic Range lighting now supported in the tools
• Day of Defeat: Source support now included
• New Hammer Editor features:
  
  • VGUI Model browser with real-time 3D view
    
  • Map autosave/backup
    
  • Model and displacement rendering in 2D views
    
  • Many other small improvements and bug fixes

For a full list of changes, see the Source SDK Changelist on the Valve Developer Community site

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/500/

Source Engine Update Available

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

Source engine

• Fixed problem users with ATI cards were experiencing with overly shiny cube maps

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/498/

Happy New Year 2006

Merry Christmas 2005

Day of Defeat: Source Update Available

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

• Allied Garand is now more accurate
• Allied 30cal machine gun is now more accurate
• Made the garand sight ring larger when in iron sights.
• Moved Axis k98 rifle iron sight model away from the player slightly.
• View model no longer sways in iron sight mode
• Decreased the recoil on the Allied Garand when in iron sights.
• Fixed bug where Allied 30cal machine gun would remove stamina when firing an empty gun
• Improved weapon pickup to search in radius around crosshair
• Fixed prediction bug where players would get stuck together
• Added an end of round statistics panel to highlight the most valuable contributors to the winning team.
• Increased footstep volume
• Updated firing sounds for both Allied and Axis machine guns.
• Game now uploads a stats blob to steam on level change or shutdown. Contains info about scoring, weapon and class performance and server settings. We'll be creating a web page for the community to view these stats soon. (These are not statistics about individual players, just aggregate across the entire Day of Defeat Source community.)
• Added life id to damage record in console
• Fixed bug that would produce '0 damage in x hits' in damage record
• Added cvar "hud_takesshots" - Setting this to 1 will take a screen shot at the end of the game with the scoreboard included.
• Updated the death notice hud element
• Fixed logging error where player index was used instead of userid for cap and block messages
• Winning and losing teams can now chat during the bonus round * no longer show (dead) prefix during this period.
• Fixed bug where last character of a players name would be cut off.
• Added defense icon to death notice defense event instead of "Defended" text
• Fixed bug where you could jump while in the process of going prone
• Fixed animation bug when an assault player dropped his primary weapon and didn't have a pistol or grenades.
• Force exact file consistency on smoke grenade materials and weapon scripts
• Optimizations to lag compensation
• Added voice command variations
• Optimizations to debris physboxes

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/497/

VALVE UNVEILS 64-BIT SOURCE(TM) GAMING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED IN CONJUNCTION WITH AMD

For those of you running with a 64-bit capable AMD processor, along with the Windows® 64-bit operating system, Half-Life 2 and Lost Coast are now available in native 64-bit versions. Steam will automatically detect your OS and run the appropriate version the next time you run these games.

We've been working with AMD to get the Source engine up and running in 64-bit mode to make sure we're taking advantage of these hardware configurations. This is just a first step for Valve into 64-bit. Going forward, we realize that more and more of our customers will be running with 64-bit processors and we will be set to take true advantage of them.

Source Engine Update Available

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

Source Engine

• Fixed "Extra App ID set to 211, but no SteamAppId" error when launching Source SDK tools

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/489/

Day of Defeat: Source and Rag Doll Kung Fu Update Available

Updates to Day of Defeat: Source and Rag Doll Kung Fu have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Day of Defeat: Source

• Added new map dod_argentan

Rag Doll Kung Fu

• Fixed not being able to play past the second level transition

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/486/

Day of Defeat: Source Update Available

An update to Day of Defeat: Source has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Day of Defeat: Source

• Updated gameinfo.txt to support the Source SDK

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/482/