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'Source Engine' Gets Steamy Update #43

by Rainier on May 25, 2006 @ 1:42 p.m. PDT

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details regarding a rather large update to its Source engine. This update addresses various graphical issues with HDR, Nvidia cards, UI fixes, and a few sound issues. Read more for details, or just restart Steam for the effects to take place.

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

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