Unreleased CS Textures -- Thursday, July 25, 2002

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One of our texture artists Ido Magal has posted an unreleased texture .wad over on our forums of his never finished Venice map. In true Ido fashion, these are some great looking textures so feel free to use them on your CS map. Check out the forum post for the full details or download the zip directly:

• http://www.fileplanet.com/files/110000/110788.shtml

-- cliffe

CPL Summer Event -- Thursday, July 18, 2002

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The CPL's Pentium 4 Processor Summer Championship 2002 Event starts Saturday the 20th through the 24th. We're very excited to note that the main tournament will feature Counter-Strike 1.5 with cash prises of $100,000 and 600 competitors from 15 different countries. Very exciting stuff. The event will also feature a music concert, workshops, a machine mod contest, exhibits, etc. I'll be there along with a couple Valve guys for the 4th Annual Mod Expo showing off some of the cool up and coming HL mods. It should be a lot of fun, I hope to see a lot of you guys there. Fore more info on the event, see the CPL Site.
-- cliffe

New VAC Update -- Tuesday, July 16, 2002

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Valve's Eric "Paintrain" Smith updated the HLDS mailing list with the following pertaining to new CS security modules:

We've updated the public security modules again. Your Counter-Strike servers should update themselves automatically. If you find your servers are suddenly having problems, try restarting the servers.

These modules should detect OGC's OpenGl Hack 1.8 and will start reporting detected cheaters to our master ban list server. We won't be banning anyone yet, but we'll be gathering information about detected cheaters. You will see outgoing traffic to: 205.158.143.67:27013.

-- cliffe

WickedGL Fix -- Wednesday, June 19, 2002

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For those of you having the WickedGL boot to desktop problem, that should now be fixed with Valve's most current Security Module update. Here's the word from Eric Smith:

*** This only affects Counter-Strike servers. ***

We've updated the security modules again. These modules should fix the problems with clients using WickedGL drivers not being able to play.

Your Counter-Strike servers should update themselves automatically. If you find your servers are suddenly having problems, try restarting the servers. There have been some situations where the servers and clients got into a state where they couldn't communicate properly.

NOTE: Please take into account that we've had problems with false positives when considering whether to permanently ban a player who has been detected.

Thanks.

Eric Smith
VALVe

-- cliffe

CS 1.5 Issues -- Friday, June 14, 2002

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Thanks to everyone who helped out with the release of 1.5. It was one of the more smooth releases in recent memory. To all those who mirrored files to serve the demand, thank you. A couple issues have come up with the release, which I'll try to address in an organized way.

"Error! Server verification failed" Problem
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This error is caused by the client's inability to communicate with the Secure Master servers to validate the security module being used on secure servers. It can be caused by a few different problems. Here are some things to try:

1) Clients need to communicate with the Secure Master servers (port 27012). First, make sure there isn't a firewall problem.

2) Make sure you do NOT have a file called "woncomm.lst" in your \cstrike folder. If you do, delete it. This file should ONLY reside in your \valve folder.

3) Open the "woncomm.lst" file in your \valve folder (using notepad) and make sure there is an entry that looks like this at the bottom of the file:

Secure
{
half-life.speakeasy-nyc.hlauth.net:27012
half-life.speakeasy-sea.hlauth.net:27012
half-life.speakeasy-chi.hlauth.net:27012
}

4) If your "woncomm.lst" file DOES have the "Secure" entry and you still can't connect to the Secure Master servers, it might be a DNS problem. Try changing your "Secure" entry to look like this:

Secure
{
216.254.95.155:27012
64.81.178.5:27012
64.81.159.155:27012
}

5) Make sure you have the latest firmware for your router. We've heard reports of people with Linksys 4 port routers having problems and when they updated their firmware the problems disappeared.

"TrackerUI.dll invalid" Problem
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This error is harmless and doesn't mean anything. To remove the error from your console, simply follow the same steps outlined for F1 and F2 binding problems (below).


F1 and F2 Binding Problem
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To be able to bind your F1 and F2 keys: Go to your Half-Life (or Counter-Strike Retail) directory, open the "valve" folder, open the "cl_dlls" folder, and rename the file "GameUI.dll" to something else (i.e. "GameUI.bak"). You should be able to bind your F1 and F2 keys again.
-- cliffe

CS v1.5 Windows Clients Out -- Wednesday, June 12, 2002

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Counter-Strike version 1.5 Windows client files are now out! Use the download links to your right to grab the version you need. You can get the full 121meg Mod version file, the 7meg Mod upgrade, the full 116meg Retail file, or the 19meg Retail upgrade patch. Check back here in the next few days for the unofficial "missing retail mappack."

Click here to read the full readme.txt. Here is a quick changelog:

v1.5
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[6.12.02]

Changes/Additions :
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- New map de_piranesi.
- Ricochet included in this release.
- Added logging of the anti-cheat system catching and kicking detected cheats.
- Added logging of "kick" commands.
- Added logging of "banid" commands.
- Changed error message if clients try to download missing resources to be more helpful.
- Added new debug message for mod makers if a packet couldn't be parsed correctly.
- Linux: hlds_run now does auto-restart by default (to disable: define "-norestart" on the command

line)
- Linux: hlds_run uses "exec" when you define the "-norestart" option.
- Linux: Added -pingboost command line parameter. Currently supports three different methods

('-pingboost 1', '-pingboost 2', and 'pingboost 3'). These may not work well (or at all) on some OS

environments.
- Linux: Added "-debug" flag to hlds_run to automatically run gdb and pull out useful info.

New CVARS:
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- Added "serverversion", can be set to '1108' to view/re-record old demos.
- Added "sv_logbans" to turn the logging of player bans on and off. Default is 0 (off).

Bug Fixes:
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- Fixed mp_hostagepenalty not working.
- Fixed problem with server locking when the bomb is planted and a new player joins the server.
- Restored "mp_fadetoblack" server variable.
- Fixed incorrect WonID logging.
- Fixed sv_allowdownload being required to be set to 1 for clients to connect to secure servers.
- Fixed 'bad address type' fatal error on servers that attempt to run in secure mode but have no DNS

resolution.
- Fixed DropClient messages for Steam clients who were banned or have a duplicate Steam ID to properly

show the SteamID of the client.
- Fixed HLTV reporting wrong spectator numbers if connection to server was pending.
- Fixed "multicast 1" not working if it was issued before HLTV connected to game server.
- Fixed relay proxies reporting wrong spectator/slots numbers in multiplayer/LAN menu.
- Fixed DMC powerup bug where the invisibility ring would make people glow red.
- Fixed rcon bug in HLTV.
- Fixed delay being reset to default value during changelevel.
- Fixed a problem with propagating HLTV banners.
- Fixed client freeze on exit.
- Fixed framerate problem on some ATI video cards.
- Fixed MaxPing filter not being saved correctly.
- Fixed sky box bug.
- Linux: Fixed server using 64 MB more memory than it needed to.
- Linux: Fixed 'undefined symbol: __strtouq_internal' on some Linux systems.
- Linux: Fixed segmentation fault on some Linux systems when attempting to run in secure mode.

-- cliffe

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