Steam Client, Source Engine and Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released
Product Update - Valve
Mar 13, 2006
Updates to the Steam Client have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Steam Client
Source & Half-Life 1 Engine
Source Engine
Counter-Strike
Steam Client
- You can now join the Friends Beta via the Friends button inside of Steam.
- The Steam hardware survey has been updated, with improved detection of graphics card hardware and sound card detection. Results are available here
- Added System information help menu option which shows the hardware information detected for the survey
- Fixed offline mode not working for users who account names that are all digits with leading zeros
- Fixed actively preloading games showing as paused in the mini-games list
- Fixed case where store page could become stuck displaying 'loading...' and never show a page
Source & Half-Life 1 Engine
- Enabled Friends beta
- Fixed several cases where the server browser would not correctly handle filtering of mods
Source Engine
- Improved filesystem throughput - this fixes a bunch of stutter reports in Half-Life 2
Counter-Strike
- Fixed menuselect 10 exploit allowing players to spawn into game in spectator mode
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