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maDDin
1st June 2006, 07:44
Updates to the Steam Client have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Friends

Friends is now officially released, ending the Beta
Fixed case where friends list would show as empty
Added prompt for new users to choose their Friends name
Defrag

Added file defrag option in game->properties dialog
Backup

Improved speed & reliability of the Backup utility
Added custom disk size option, in addition to the DVD & CD standard sizes
Fixed case where backup would produce files too large for some CD burning software to handle
Added an auto-run to created backups
Steam Client

Added 'Games' option to settings -> interface -> favorite window dropdown
Fixed developer name & icon not showing for mods in the games list
Fixed issue causing apps a user owned to show as 'pre-loaded' in the games list
Fixed case where steam:// hyperlinks wouldn't work for users who used a registry restore tool
Source Engine

Updated base content with assets to support newer engine features

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Source (http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=638)

Wohoo biggy big update. Friends is officially out now. The defrag option is very interesting. Read that Valve recognized a bad mistage on last hardware surway. They realized that the steam cache files got a bad fragmantation. So your able to defrag em now. And its possible to get up to 600% !!! faster loading times.

If thats working - wow. Nice one Valve.

Miz
1st June 2006, 09:44
Thanks maDDin. :)

Hopefully this will fix my Friends issue of displaying two lines of the same text when using it in-game.

Cessle
1st June 2006, 09:54
well my pc is currently nakerd and so no steam no nothign actually tbh :(

Phoenix
1st June 2006, 11:11
I can't use any of my games since it updated...

I was ok for about an hour this morning but when it updated i started getting "Unable to contact authentication server" and the "SteamID Ticket Invalid" Errors.... it's really quite irritating since i tried most things and it wont work >.<

But yeah, update would be good if it worked... :mad:

ArchoNide
1st June 2006, 11:13
I just updated my own. Quite big update.