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SK
21st October 2003, 22:07
From the steam website...

A Steam update has just been released. The next time you restart Steam, the update will take effect. Here are the details on what is included:

- Added support for "trickle update", which will allow updates to games to be delivered over time before they are activated.
Optimizations in Steam targeted at reducing CPU and memory load on some systems.
- Progress dialog always shows now during startup.
- Fixed handling of cache fingerprint mismatch on reconnect
- Fixed case which would cause the preloader ignoring errors to send extra messages to the Steam servers.
- Fixed bug in Steam that would cause cache to be validated too often when Steam started. This would cause hard drive thrashing.
- Fixed a potential lockup case and access violation case in Steam.

SK
22nd October 2003, 00:13
Update!

We have identified a bug in the recent update which was causing Steam users to download much more content than was necessary. This bug was overloading the network and not allowing people to play games, so we have reverted back to the previous version for now. There will probably be some network congestion due to all this for the next couple of hours or so.