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The update that many people have been expecting, and worrying about, has arrived today. Valve has released an update to its Half-Life 1 Engine today and it will affect all multiplayer games based on the HL1 engine including Counter-Strike 1.6 and Day of Defeat. However, the big worry among the community was that demo viewing would not work with the updated protocol.

Despite reports to the contrary, initial testing conducted by GotFrag staff has shown that demos are currently still able to be viewed using the playdemo command but using the viewdemo option gives the following error: "WARNING! filename.dem has an outdated demo format". Also, according to several players, the update has added an additional noise when you try to silent run. Duck jumping still works.

Stay tuned to GotFrag.com and this news post as we continue further testing to see exactly what else this update has added/changed. Below is the official changelog that has been released.

Update: 100 is the maximum value for cl_updaterate and will be changed to 20 if you attempt a higher number. Also, ex_interp may only contain a value between 0.05 and 0.1.

Half-life 1 Engine Update Released

A new set of Steamworks features have been released for all Half-Life 1 engine multiplayer games: Counter-Strike 1.6, Condition Zero, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, Ricochet, Day of Defeat and Half-life 1 Deathmatch. The update includes Steamworks features such as player avatars in the scoreboard when playing Counter-Strike and Condition Zero. The update also contains several bug fixes, listed below. Note that this update will require all game servers to restart.

Bug Fixes

- Removed the need to manually re-login and re-authenticate to Steam while in game
- Fixed a crash on startup when running windowed with a non-standard desktop resolution
- Removed the display of saytext (in-game chat text) from players whom you've blocked in Steam friends
- Locked down several engine cvars to prevent malicious script exploits
- Enforced file consistency on several sprites in Counter-Strike
- Removed "ex_extrapmax" cvar (no longer needed)

Server

- Added "-noaff" command-line option to disable setting of thread affinity
- Added "bannedcfg" cvar so admins can choose which file is written to by the "writeid" command

User Comments

hooray!

~:O

In before 300 posts of crying.

Part-time GotFrag Writer - Fulltime Dr Pepper Enthusiast

it makes no sense, why do they "add"/"fix" these issues when they have so many other problems... vac, flash bugs, exploits, elimate 16-bit smokes, silent bomb plants and so on

so crouch running wasn't taken out then?

Hippos - miLitAry`hu

false. duck jump works.

well #2, this update is unnecessary. crouchrunning has sped the game up and is now apart of the game which i'm pretty sure everyone began to accept. i think crouchrunning made the game more fast paced and more fun and it has become the norm.

also, i really don't see the point in altering the demo playing. seems really stupid and i hope they fix it.

crouch running still works but it now makes the same sound as running

I dont think they removed crouch running. They just made crouch running sounds like regular running unless I misunderstood something.

I like big (.)(.)

the downfall

every server is still on 47, damn it

Lucky7 | Mal'Ganis.US.PVP

have yet to find a server that I can connect to they all have the old protocol -_-

#1 shaGuar fanboy

stupid update... should fix flashbug and other more important bugs instead of that ...

I HAVE A CALMATCH TONIGHT

WHAT DO I DO

crouchrun still the same...The players that test it prolly just do it wrong lol

what should the interp be set to?

how do yo change your name? every time i change it, it goes straight back to my steam friends name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2B-0b5KkpA

i've found in 3minutes how to change your nick when you want.
You just need to add in steam : "yournick" (with quote)

This comment was edited at 10/22/2008 9:18 PM

http://www.sk-gaming.com/member/badou/

Interp still works at 0.01 for me..

BLACKHAWK

so what should ex_interp be at?

setinfo name "name"

also works.

howcome some people can see avatars and some people cant?

CS 1.7!!

buddy me

You need to use at least 1024 x 768 reso i think #23.

Also, why would they force interp to be above 0.05? 0.01 is used at all lans and online by a lot of people :/..

Well this might be the nail in the coffin...

pzzzz l8 #dyingbreed

#26 you're an idiot.

Anybody who believes that this is going to ruin or end 1.6 go shoot yourself in the stomach with a shotgun. You're probably the same nerds who said advertisements would kill 1.6.

my recoil feels way different now, not liking this. My interp still seems to be able to stay at .01

I fart when I pee, how bout you?

IT BROKE DEATHMATCH! BAILOPAN WHERE ARE YOU!

I Started the FURY craze!

so retarded, 100% unndeeded

If I press tab the game stops responding..................................

Your friendly neighbourhood Nagelbergman.

fckin game feels so laggy now... gj valve... bunch of morons

brzl~^^

I try to load into any server, and the game locks up my computer...

#LostProphets #QuakeLive

and 1024 users are basically fcked seeing as how scoreboard looks 10x bigger with all these dumb pictures.... also ur steam friends name = ingame so better fix it up

Hmmm, the game feels a tiny bit different ... the update actually happened while I was playing on a lan server against pod bots warming up aim for a match lolzzzz and it changed my name to ImportedNoob automatically .. i was like ... that was odd? :p

The duck running sound is still a low sound .. not as loud as I was hoping but w/e

This comment was edited at 10/22/2008 9:47 PM

THIS IS THE DUMBEST S}{!T IVE EVER SEEN...wtf 1.6 is starting to crumble, GOOD JOB STEAM WITH THIS NEW AND UNIMPROVED UPDATE!

#27 your dumb, please read the posts on here of people bashing valve on this update....and compare that to people that are not bothered by this update, valve made a stupid mistake with this and they will soon realize it when they see the affect it has on the 1.6 community!

this is bullshit everything is the same... its obvious that valve wants to make cs more comercial and more "beautiful" with fancy stuff like seeing avatar when showscore or something like that ... there are still flashbugs silent plant bugs... two words for this ... BIG #@#@#@ !!! there isnt any change in gameplay or there is few useless changes such is maxupdaterate 100 OLOLOL... i wonder why anyone tought that valve care to turn off silent run... they are not interested in this game anymore, and all of us should stop care to:)

#37 people said the same thing when valve announced advertisements, and it changed NOTHING.

Get down on your little knees and swallow my d�ick.

#38 ... We've all known that they don't care about 1.6 anymore ... Welcome to the club ... too bad the club started years ago.

This comment was edited at 10/22/2008 10:00 PM

Steam BLOWS

Everyone should just raid their forums

This comment was edited at 10/22/2008 10:01 PM

SOME OF U IDIOTS DONT KNO HOW TO READ, UR STILL ABLE TO CROUCH RUN , THEY JUST ADDED THE REGULAR RUNNING FOOT SOUNDS, SOME OF U GUYS ARE F ING ILLITERATE I SWEAR

The whole point of crouch running is to not make noise... lol

everything is just laggy as f*ck and being disconnected every few minutes with "svc bad"

QUOTE:
Also, ex_interp may only contain a value between 0.05 and 0.1.

I just tested this...i'm using 0.01 fine :/

I'm using 0.01 too, dunno

I wonder how this will affect EM Dubai lol anyways steam really knows how to get on ppl's balls

100 is the maximum value for cl_updaterate and will be changed to 20 if you attempt a higher number. Also, ex_interp may only contain a value between 0.05 and 0.1. Uh? why? I think valve is trying to sabotage competitive cs, why kill the lan rates?

#41 just like #42 said the point of crouch running is not to make noise so why do it now.
#46 im pretty sure fnatic, SK, and MYM and other teams who like to crouch hop are quite pissed.

This comment was edited at 10/22/2008 10:16 PM

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LOL! now usp became spammable trough iron dors, the yellow house in de_nuke, etc!

~~ United we stand ~~ [BRASIL]

In order to keep your interp at .01 you have to have your updaterate set to 100 if you have it set to 101 it will revert to 20 and then you're interp will go to .05

thanks tantrum :]

#mrevolution

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