No New Half-Life Patch Yet

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Voodoo Extreme: Here's the big one: Why was the new Half-Life patch delayed? According to my contacts, you found a 'connection bug'? Could you be a little more specific, as well as describe the extent of the bug and what it affects?

Gabe Newell: Actually Cliffe and Erik found it. Cliffe has a cable modem with a 56K uplink. Some 56K uplinks won't handle packets greater than a certain size (<1K), and so we had to fragment them. The problem didn't show up until recently as it wasn't until other things in the engine changed that we started pushing this limit. It was kinda obscure, but we wanted to fix it, and any time we touch the code, we have to restart the whole release process. As an aside, this is one of the things that PowerPlay will hopefully fix, as there are all of these weird-ass networking behaviors that are ISP and hardware specific (and completely undocumented).

I want to know what the exact problem with cable modems was.

It's Valve. What did you expect?

Dopeman

valve why do you mock me? why do you mock me valve

/me curses the sky

that id news, who cares.

this is what Im interested in. ANd pissed off about. :)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Geee the suckage just doesn't quit today, does it?

Such is life, is it not?

monday!

i
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pissed

Must have better net-code now.