CS:S, TF2 and DoD:S Updates Released

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

Engine

• Tuned thread initialization to improve performance on CPUs with more than four cores

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/4070/

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

• Fixed crashes in Faceposer and commentary editor

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/4063/

TF2, CS:S and DoD:S Updates Released

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

Engine

• Increased the resilience of client/server data table mismatches when playing back demos. This will make most old demo files playable again, but with potential visual side effects

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/4062/

Day Of Defeat Now Available On Steam For Mac Users

Hey, Mac owners, you can now play Day of Defeat, courtesy of Steam.

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/externalpost/kotaku/523725895841287770

Day of Defeat: Source Now Available on Mac

This week, Valve has added another title from its classic catalog into the growing Mac game library. Day of Defeat: Source now joins Portal, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike Source as a native title for Apple's computer platform
Day of Defeat: Source launches for Mac as a SteamPlay title, allowing current owners of the PC version the option to also download and play it on Mac machines. As a SteamPlay title, users from both platforms can also face-off against each other on the World War II-inspired battlefield.

Day of Defeat began life as a Half-Life mod in 2000 before being purchased and sold by Valve, and publisher Activision, in 2003. In September 2005, Day of Defeat: Source was released.

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• http://store.steampowered.com/news/externalpost/shacknews/523725895845371855

Now on Mac! - Day of Defeat: Source

Now you can enjoy Day of Defeat: Source, the WWII mulitplayer classic from Valve, on your Mac! Assume the role of infantry, sniper or machine-gunner classes and experience the intense online action set in Europe during WWII.

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/4058/

TF2, CS:S and DoD:S Updates Released

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

Engine

• Fixed client crash related flashlight usage.
• Fixed several issues related to alt-tabbing (invisible players, etc).

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/4043/

Steam client update released

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam Client

• Added UI to disable Steam Cloud per-game and per-account.
• Added an icon in list view for uninstalled games that support cloud.
• Steam Cloud will now download files for installed games on logon.
• Fixed Steam Cloud sync failures that occurred because of deleted files.
• Improve text hit testing in chat windows.
• Make player names in chat windows clickable, taking you to that user's profile.
• Fixed tabs in the settings dialog sometimes not drawing correctly.
• Fixed a regression that prevented steam from automatically validating and repairing damaged game caches on launch.
• Shortened the delay between launching steam and being offered offline mode in the case of no network connectivity.
• Fixes the label under the dropdown on the game properties updates page for non-cloud games.
• Shows the "cloud disabled" icon in list view for games with cloud disabled that are not installed.
• Fixes players paying mods showing up as "in-game" rather than "in-mod" in the friends window.
• Fixes the login button in the login dialog becoming enabled when the dialog is dragged after the button is pressed.
• Improves whitespace detection in chats.
• Fixes a confusing error message when attempting to back up to a directory that doesn't exist (it would tell you the disk doesn't have enough space).
• Fixes weirdness with radio buttons when pressing the 'back' key on the backup wizard.
• Fixes game manuals not opening in an external browser.
• [OSX] Makes player names in chat windows clickable
• [OSX] Fixed a class of bugs that could cause steam to hang while shutting down, especially if network settings had changed.
• [OSX] Fixes tooltip flickering.
• [OSX] Cmd+Left/Right now go to beginning/end of line.
• [OSX] Option+Left/Right now go to word boundaries.
• [OSX] Option+Enter now inserts a newline.
• [OSX] Fixes some Windows-specific wording about the notification tray in the preferences/settings window.
• [OSX] Prevents backing up files to the file system root.
• [OSX] Treats the return key the same as the enter key.

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/4012/

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:

SDK Launcher
'Half-Life 2', 'Episode 1', 'Episode 2', and 'Counter-Strike: Source' now default to the 'Source Engine 2009' engine configuration.
Users developing content for these games should manually add configurations for these games in the context of the 'Source Engine 2009' engine or can simply use the 'Reset Game Configurations' utility.

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/3979/

Source SDK Test Maps

by darkpivotstudios

Two cool scenes made in the Source SDK for Half Life 2: Episode 2. The first one was actually inspired by Dead Space, and the train scene was thought up by me with a little inspiration from Mirror's Edge and Split/Second. Enjoy, and I plan to make more! :P

Steam client update released

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam Client

• Reduces bandwidth used for stats and achievements on OSX
• Improves reliability when multiple achievements are unlocked simultaneously
• Fix for possible Steam lockup when launching a game
• Added 'view game store page' option on the context menu for friends who are in a game
• Fixed steamclient.dll importing a function not available on Win2k

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/3958/

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:

Engine

• Made several changes that improve stability for clients running low on addressable memory.
• Changed all HTML controls to use Webkit for the rendering engine.

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/3928/

Steam client update released

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam Client

• Fixed an issue on Windows 2000 requiring the SP4 update rollup 1 package to be installed for Steam to run
• Fixed in-game overlay generating spurious D3D11 debug runtime warnings about CSSetUnorderedAccessViews when running on downlevel hardware
• Fix regression causing a crash on exit in the in-game overlay
• Small startup performance optimization to not initialize settings dialog data until needed
• Fix the you have been logged in elsewhere dialog to not leave Steam in a broken state on Cancel
• Support for a forthcoming news URL format change
• Fixed Retail not prompting for a CD key when creating a new account
• Fixed VGUI crashing when the number of panels was very large (ie, for users with huge friends/clan membership lists)
• Decreased number of VGUI panels active at once for friends list
• Decreased the time it takes Steam to launch some games
• Fixed memory leak when resizing in-game overlay web browser
• Fixed potential failure or client hang when failing talking to content server directory servers
• Fixed overlapping text for pending group invites in the friends list invites section
• Fixed error message “You don't currently have any games ready to backup..” when restoring a previous game backup
• Fixed Cloud changing last modified times on clouded files.
• Fixed the Cloud sync transfer rate display in list view
• Steamworks - Fixed case where building an installer could randomly fail due to an error in the Microsoft crypto library

• http://store.steampowered.com/news/3913/