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Steam, Source Engine, HLDS Update Released

Client Update - Valve

Jan 6, 2005

Steam, Source Engine, and Half-Life Dedicated Server updates are available and will be applied automatically when Steam is restarted. The changes include:

Steam

Pressing the cancel button while Steam is loading will bring up the offline dialog
Fixed 100% CPU use on startup
Fixed use of quoted parameters in "-applaunch" command lines

Source Engine

Fixed exception info spam in debugger output window for SDK users

Half-Life Dedicated Server

Enabled support for new query protocol (fixes HLTV server not appearing in the server browser)

Update - Fixed command line parameters being ignored when using desktop shortcuts for some games

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