Steam Updates and Releases 06 June 2011

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 is now available for pre-purchase on Steam! Gather your allies. A challenge awaits.

Pre-purchase now and receive the following Duels of the Planewalkers in-game items for Team Fortress 2!

- Planeswalker goggles: “No more bugs in your eyes as you blaze across the map.”

- Planeswalker helm: “If anyone asks, tell them the tusks qualify you for veterinary work.”

- Added languages: Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.
- Optimized Flash UI renderer and player.
- Major optimizations in the DX9 and OpenGL renderers.
- Improved threading and CPU usage in particle system.
- Alot (!) of performance, threading and memory optimizations through out the entire engine.
- Streaming music from memory instead of IO to reduce playback glitches during loading on low-end machines.
- Optimized loading time both between levels and between in-game/front-end transitions.
- Now using DirectInput8 for keyboard input instead of Win32 API functions.
- Minor graphical improvements on various particle effects, meshes etc.
- Able to adjust gamma in "video options".
- Fade sound when application becomes inactive.
- Faster to shutdown when closing game during loading.
- Some tweaks to "highest" shadow setting to reduce SSAO noise.
- Loading initial resources during startup is now threaded.
- Improved use of registers in shader generation which improve performance on bad OpenGL drivers.
- Improved shadows in front end.
- Randomization bug in particle effect fixed; particle effects are no longer created equally.

Updates to Wings of Prey have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• New matchmaking system - have to be more effective in connections.
• Enhanced FM engine simulation (a few fixes were made, lots of planes will have more realistic FM now)
• Optional mission continue in single missions
• Optional take off in training
• Availability of planes in MP mode is now based on fronts instead of locations
• Now it’s possible to slow down and speed up time in replay mode
• Some new cameras and other features for replay mode added
• Migrating host was fixed
• Сonsistency check added to game launcher (don’t try it if you have your own skins)
• If you have a problem on AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core, please download an official patch from AMD.

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