March 13, 2006 - Steam Client, Source Engine and Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

Updates to the Steam Client have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Steam Client


You can now join the Friends Beta via the Friends button inside of Steam.

The Steam hardware survey has been updated, with improved detection of graphics card hardware and sound card detection. Results are available here

Added System information help menu option which shows the hardware information detected for the survey

Fixed offline mode not working for users who account names that are all digits with leading zeros

Fixed actively preloading games showing as paused in the mini-games list

Fixed case where store page could become stuck displaying 'loading...' and never show a page

Source & Half-Life 1 Engine

Enabled Friends beta

Fixed several cases where the server browser would not correctly handle filtering of mods


Source Engine

Improved filesystem throughput - this fixes a bunch of stutter reports in Half-Life 2

Counter-Strike

Fixed menuselect 10 exploit allowing players to spawn into game in spectator mode