WedgeStratos
RENEWAL
Well, I guess since the topic is back and choking, let's talk pipes.
SteamPipe is Steam's new content distribution system. It changes the way games (including dedicated servers) are downloaded, updated and stored.
Link to the support page, explaining the situation.
Basically, players get faster and smoother downloads, boot and map load times, easy mod management (already noticeable with Left 4 Dead 2) and servers will be updated to the newer versions a lot faster than having to wait ages for it.
With this means changes. GCFs are dead, brother. Your Source games will be directly in the filesystem, in VPK archives. This is where we'll get faster download and performance rates. And if you're hosting a dedicated server, and rely on HLDSUpdateTool, that's done. You'll now be using SteamCMD, a stripped down version of the Steam client. At this time, Team Fortress 2 is the only game you can't host a server on with SteamCMD.
DoD:S, CS:S, TF2, and HL2DM are the games getting the SteamPipe. They're all to be on it by the end of April.
I see this as a good move. The GCF system was bothersome and really did take time to load stuff. Valve's working to improve their service, and that's a good thing.
SteamPipe is Steam's new content distribution system. It changes the way games (including dedicated servers) are downloaded, updated and stored.
Link to the support page, explaining the situation.
Basically, players get faster and smoother downloads, boot and map load times, easy mod management (already noticeable with Left 4 Dead 2) and servers will be updated to the newer versions a lot faster than having to wait ages for it.
With this means changes. GCFs are dead, brother. Your Source games will be directly in the filesystem, in VPK archives. This is where we'll get faster download and performance rates. And if you're hosting a dedicated server, and rely on HLDSUpdateTool, that's done. You'll now be using SteamCMD, a stripped down version of the Steam client. At this time, Team Fortress 2 is the only game you can't host a server on with SteamCMD.
DoD:S, CS:S, TF2, and HL2DM are the games getting the SteamPipe. They're all to be on it by the end of April.
I see this as a good move. The GCF system was bothersome and really did take time to load stuff. Valve's working to improve their service, and that's a good thing.