Steam News

Source and Half-Life 1 Dedicated Server Update Released

March 8, 2006, 6:06 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Source and Half-Life 1 Dedicated Server have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Both

• Reduced CPU spikes and overall load during server operation
  
• Fixed serveral crash bugs on Linux systems running older GLIBC versions
  

• Clamped the size of the WeaponList network message to prevent a potential buffer overflow exploit (found by Niall FitzGibbon)

Source Engine Update Available

January 9, 2006, 3:35 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

Source Engine and Half-Life 1: Engine Updates Available

October 3, 2005, 5:11 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Source Engine and Half-Life 1: Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Source Engine

• Fixed loading error when trying to debug Source MODs using the SDK
  
• Fixed a startup crash in Windows 98
  

• Fixed name exploit causing client crash

Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source and Source Engine Updates Available

August 10, 2005, 4:22 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source and the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike: Source

• Added validation of custom player model and weapon materials. Custom materials must be VertexLitGeneric with only $baseTexture and $bumpmap variables defined
  

• Fixed "not logged in" error not displaying properly
  
• Fixed not being able to run internet game servers for Source Mods in a debugger
  

• Enabled low violence content for low violence users