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New Steam Update to be Released Tonight
October 1, 2003, 6:37 pm · Greg Coomer
 
A Steam update will be released tonight at about 7:00 PDT. The update will take effect automatically when you exit and restart Steam. About 5 minutes before the update goes out, we'll send a message to everyone via Friends. Here's what's new:

fixed bug where favorite servers would not get saved to disk if filtered out
increased max servers listed from 10,000 to 20,000
fixed 'add friends' and 'game info' dialogs showing up over gameplay in game
fixed problem with not always being able to re-add friends after removing them
fixed case where authorization request dialog could appear multiple times from the same user
fixed chat messages & authorization requests stealing focus and not starting minimized
fixed auto-away not working
removed 'about' dialog
fixed add-on (checkers, etc) invites when in game appearing over the top of the game, instead of just in the gameUI area
removed unnecessary bind() calls for client UDP sockets
chat dialogs now add a message into the text whenever the other user changes status
fixed spurious character in Game Info dialog
change 'time' info in game info player list to be in hours:minutes:seconds instead of just seconds
changed game info player list to default to sorting by score, then time

[sheepy]

so pretty much a load of useless crap then???

i really dont care as i dont have 1.6

and will not have it i get broadband

[tugs]

Hmm. I exited and reloaded steam as indicated by the news feed thing to load the update, and things are looking, erm, interesting. My main menu, every button says "#SteamRoo." and the last option description (would normally be steam news) says "#SteamRootLabel6".

I'm presuming this isn't a good sign. But the forums indicate that allegedly if (yet again!) I delete the clientregistry.blob file, it'll all sort itself. Hope so

[Anonymous]

worked for me so try it. Exit steam, delete blob then restart steam. It downloaded a few things (took less thana minute) and then was perfect again

[OldBloke]

I had that tonight as well. Deleted blobby and after two reloads (the first stalled at 40%) I was back to normal  :blink:

[TeaLeaf]

I had same issue, deleted blobby, reloaded steam and all was well with the world......until next time.

TL.

[Gone_Away]

What's a Blobby?? I have the same Prob

[TeaLeaf]

Originally posted by Ninja_Freak@Oct 3 2003, 11:34 PM
What's a Blobby?? I have the same Prob

Look in the steam folder and you will find a file right near the beginning of the list with the extension .blob

Delete it.

Et voila!

TL.

[tugs]

clientregistry.blob to be accurate.

Yeah - deleted it, it worked ok. Stalled on 30% first time, but after that no problems