Vor kurzem wurden die neuen Features noch in der offiziellen Source-Engine Beta getestet, heute gibt es sie schon für alle als normales Release über Steam. Alle die bereits an der Beta teilgenommen haben ersparen sich nun den Download, für alle anderen hier der genaue Changelog:
- 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
Wie immer wird das Update automatisch runtergeladen und installiert, sobald ihr euren Steam Client (neu)startet. Wie es nun mit der Engine Beta weitergeht ist noch nicht bekannt, dort gibt es zum Public Release noch keine Information.
25.05.2006, 20:06 Uhr
