Steam Update and Updated Hardware Survey
Filed under PC News on November 14th, 2007
Another update to Steam was posted this evening. Here’s the latest fix list:
In addition to the fixes and tweaks included (see full list below), this release also includes a new Steam Hardware Survey, which is optional for all using Steam. Results from the Spring 2007 survey may be found here. Results from the current survey may be tracked here.
The specific changes include:
Steam Client
- Fixed preloaded versions of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare being unable to launch
- Allow two shortcuts to use the same executable
- Added ability to create desktop shortcuts for shortcut apps
- Fixed Friends notifications being able to go top-most over the top of the tray context menu
- Fixed case where games would only launch in English
- Fixed Friends names sometimes being used for Clan names, or vice versa
- Fixed a rare crash when attempting to install a game
- Fixed Friends bug where the last Friend would not be shown
- Fixed the tray context menu to be easily dismissed without actually making a menu selection
- Fixed Half-Life 2: Deathmatch crowbar swing speed difference between Windows and Linux servers
- Fixed a potential hang bug in the server browser
- Fixed certain filenames not protected by sv_pure
- Fixed CSoundEnt spam on the server with high numbers of player slots on a server
- Fixed Half-Life 2: Deathmatch chat bug on Linux servers
- Minor optimization to the askconnect panel
- Fixed IP address column reporting IPs backwards
- Security fix for file transfers as reported by James Gray
- Fixed players able to make their name disappear in the scoreboard by setting it to “~~ ~” in the options panels
