Thu, 16 Nov 2006
Topic: Counter-Strike: Source and Source Engine Updates Released

Valve has released updates to CS: Source and to the source engine. As always, simply restart your game server to have the updates applied. Details follow.

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike: Source

• Fixed a crash which could occur if the dynamic weapon price list failed to download

Source Engine

• Added new cl_restrict_server_commands to prevent unwanted commands being run on game clients. The default value is 1, valid settings are:
  
  • 0 = Don't restrict any server commands
    
  • 1 = Restrict server commands in Valve multiplayer games
    
  • 2 = Restrict server commands in all multiplayer games
• Decreased startup time in some cases by rate-limiting the packets sent to clients during logon
  
• Improved responsiveness when entering map areas with lots of entities by automatically compressing large packet updates