Required updates are now available for Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. The specific changes include:
Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM) - Fixed a bug which caused Windows Aero Extensions video option to always be enabled, regardless of setting. Disabling this can improve compatibility with third-party programs and overlays, but may also affect performance. - Fixed SourceTV showing player counts for the game server instead of the number of clients connected to the SourceTV server Team Fortress 2 - Australian Christmas has begun! - Added community-contributed winter event items - Added new Grordbort Pyro and Engineer item sets - Added the "Valve Gift Grab 2011 - TF2" achievement - Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. store - Added a new Valve-authored control point map: Foundry - added 12 achievements for Foundry - added achievement reward milestone reward for Foundry achievement - Added UGC Highlander medals - Relaxed some restrictions on what misc items can be equipped simultaneously - Additional improvements for client stability - Updated the localization files Day of Defeat: Source - Added the "Valve Gift Grab 2011 - DoD:S" achievement - Updated the localization files Counter-Strike: Source - Added the "Valve Gift Grab 2011 - CS:S" achievement - Added rate limiting for connections and added the following ConVars to support that: - sv_max_connects_sec - sv_max_connects_window - sv_max_connects_sec_global - Dramatically improved the dynamic model loading system's memory usage, performance, and stability - Reduced memory usage on systems running Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 - Improved alt-tab handling under Windows Vista and Windows 7 - Fixed a client crash during demo playback - Updated the localization files Jason _______________________________________________ hlds_announce mailing list hlds_announce@list.valvesoftware.com https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_announce