Steam Client Updates Inbound
September 15, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Client, Digital Distribution, Downloads, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Steam
A nice update for Valve’s Steam client that adds plenty of new things. Restart your Steam client to reflect the latest update.
Steam Client
- Changed Subscription signup wizard page to not allow the Finish button until the launch button for the signup page is clicked
- Added a right-click “View game account” menu option for subscription based games
- Added firewall support for Games for Windows apps
- Achievement localization support added for future titles
- Flipped the command line arguments order for Red Orchestra to be <-mod>
- Made the server sponsor URL update when viewed from a GoldSrc game
- Fixed a possible memory leak
- Fixed error about missing mss32_s.dll when launching some games
- Added support for upcoming games
- Includes several Steamworks API improvements for future titles
Steamy Updates
September 3, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, Full Client, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Patches, Steam
Make sure to update your Steam client as Valve has released an update:
Steam Client
- Added Czech and Hungarian language option
- Optimized where clients get the list of available applications and subscriptions
- Under-the-hood Steamworks API improvements for future titles
- Changed desktop .ico files and games list .tga files to be downloaded on demand, instead of being a blocking download during startup
- Fixed serverbrowser not refreshing the internet list the first time it was displayed if it was right on startup
- Fixed hardware survey not always saving that you said you did not want to participate
- Fixed IMs from popping up while in-game
- Fixed the bug that removes one character per line of copied text when pasting into a chat text entry
- Fixed a crash on shutdown in some Source engine games
- Fixed some bad text in Polish in the Friends list
AMD Announces DirectX10.1 Capable Titles
August 25, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Hardware, Miscellaneous, Newsbits
AMD, touting it’s support for DirectX 10.1 API, has announced 3 titles that will support DX 10.1 when they’re released on PC. Namely;
BattleForge (EA)
Stormrise (SEGA)
Cloud 9 (NHN)
The most interesting thing, perhaps, is that Stormrise was announced as an RTS especially designed for consoles and not the PC. You can bet SEGA isn’t too happy about the surprise platform getting leaked before they could announce it themselves. Read more
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