We have released a Beta update for Counter-Strike 1.6.
Changes in this update are:
Added a "Low video quality" option in the Video tab of the Options dialog. Use this check box if you have an older GPU and want to trade off visual quality for FPS
Added a "Raw Input" checkbox in the Mouse tab of the Options dialog. This button toggles the "m_rawinput" cvar from the previous update
Extended hud_fastswitch options. 0 means no fast switch, 1 means switch on both number keys and mouse wheel, 2 means on do fast switch when using number keys
Enabled raw input mode on by default under OS X and Linux. If you have run the previous beta you may still need to toggle this option
Improved mouse capturing when using "m_rawinput 0" under windows
Added listing of games from the cstrike_downloads folder in the New Game dialog
Improved HTTP download performance
Fixed crash if OS level DEP setting was turned on for all programs and you ran in software mode
Fixed spectator UI being truncated when running in higher resolutions
Fixed downloading of content from servers via HTTP, both if you got a 404 error on one of the links or the file was in the base download folder
Fixed some commands writing config files to a bad path
If you haven't already opted into this beta and wish to, please refer to the previous post for details.
Counter-Strike 1.6 Beta update released
We have released a Beta update for Counter-Strike 1.6. You can access the beta by right clicking the game in your Library list, choosing "Properties" and going to the beta tab. Linux and OS X users will need to opt into this update also. Once you opt into the beta you will automatically receive future beta updates.
Due to a Steam Client issue you will also need to have Half-Life 1 installed and also opted into the beta (using the method above) to receive beta updates right now, we are working on fixing this issue with a future Steam client release.
Changes in this update are:
Returned mouse input to using windows messages rather than raw input, this should correct the sensitivity change people have seen
Added m_rawinput cvar, if set to 1 this enables using the raw input API's on your OS to get mouse input, usually with lower latency but missing the post processing from your OS
Fixed corrupt HTTP downloads if the url sent by the game server resulted in a 404 error
Fixed corruption of text input when hitting backspace while composing a message
Renamed gl_ztrick cvar to gl_ztrick_old, usage of this cvar is deprecated and caused rendering issues
Fixed mouse clicks sometimes being lost
Counter-Strike 1.6 Beta update released
We have released a Beta update for Counter-Strike 1.6. You can access the beta by right clicking the game in your Library list, choosing "Properties" and going to the beta tab. Linux and OS X users will need to opt into this update also. Once you opt into the beta you will automatically receive future beta updates.
Changes in this update are:
Re-enabled a fps cap of 100. You can override this behavior if you want to run faster by setting fps_override to "1" but some mods may not behave properly
Fixed movement when running at more than 100fps
Added "speak_enabled" cvar, if set to 0 then the "spk" and "speak" commands are disabled
Added "edicts" option to liblist.gam file, for use in mods that want more than 900 entities in their maps
Increased supported entity count in Counter-Strike 1.6 to 1800
We will be continuing to update this beta to address bugs and features request, so if you have a problem please try it out. You can also help out by reporting bugs via out GitHub Issues page.
Update: due to a client bug to opt into this beta you will also need to have Half-Life installed and opt it into the beta also (via the same properties page).
Counter-Strike 1.6 update released
We have updated the public release of Counter-Strike 1.6. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new features.
Changes in this update are:
Converted Counter-Strike 1.6 to the new SteamPipe content system, for optimized delivery of the game
Added support for Mac OS X and Linux operating systems
Improved OpenGL rendering pipeline and output to leverage the capabilities in todays GPU
Improved support for in-game chat in non-latin languages
A full list of changes can be found in the Half-Life 1 game hub announcement area.
Counter-Strike 1.6 Beta released
In support of the upcoming Steam for Linux release we have made Counter-Strike 1.6 available on Linux and Mac OS X.
This beta involves significant changes for all platforms and your testing is appreciated, please report any bugs to our GitHub page.
Linux and OS X users can simply install the Counter-Strike application to access the beta. For Windows users right click the game in your Library, choose properties and then go to the Beta tab. Select the SteamPipe beta to start testing. Under windows to opt out of testing simply deselect the beta option on this same page.
