Steam News announces the release of a new automatic update for Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. The change list follows.

Half-Life 2

• Fixed crash due to long hud hint messages, seen when playing in French
• Fixed Lambda logo at end of credits being cut off (Mac)
• Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
• Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's

Half-Life 2: Episode One

• Fixed localized content not loading properly resulting in English audio
• Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
• Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

• Improved frame rate on opening map
• Fixed localized content not loading properly resulting in English audio
• Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
• Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's

Portal

• Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
• Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's