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I lied about the ice-cream, but Treyarch has deployed a major Call of Duty: Black Ops PC patch, bringing it up to version 1.04. The patch went live yesterday, and if you have been on Steam in the past 24 hours, your game client will already have been updated. The patch weighs in at 64MB.<\/p>\n
We can confirm that the patch has fixed a number of the problems which previously plagued the game for many users. That said, it is still not quite as smooth as we would like it to be, and are awaiting feedback from the boarder community to determine whether the game has been improved for everyone, as previous patches had a negative effect for some users. <\/p>\n
The update list includes<\/strong><\/p>\n • <\/span>Improved threading performance on computers with only 2 cores.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Additional performance optimisations.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Added an option to pre-cache all shaders during load time. This fixes hitching related to shader compiling on some video cards when viewing an area of the map for the first time.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fixed random freezes in certain computer configurations.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Allow Team Change on Ranked servers when it does not unbalance teams (this is a server admin option).<\/p>\n • <\/span>Allow Team Change grace period at start of match (server admin option).<\/p>\n • <\/span>Added 4 more reserved slots (server admin option).<\/p>\n • <\/span>\/connect<\/p>\n • <\/span>Improved quickmatch results (server side change).<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fix for watching films through Combat Record.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fixed compassSpectatorsSeeEnemies exploit.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fixed 3rd person fov exploit.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fix for infinite supply drop exploit.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fixed crosshair flickering when stereo is active.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Various spawn improvements.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Various sound improvements.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fix for Zombies – Teammate shadows not displayed properly.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fix for radar not staying on in One in the Chamber when it should.<\/p>\n • <\/span>In a Domination match, the Position Secured medal is no longer delayed.<\/p>\n • <\/span>‘Hardened: Equipment Shot’ Challenge can now be completed by destroying a ‘Camera Spike’.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Fix for choppy final killcam in dedicated servers.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Various map glitches fixed.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Weekly and Monthly leaderboards will now track all kills, deaths and assists properly (All Time leaderboards were not affected by his).<\/p>\n • <\/span>Added mixed hardcore playlist.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Added mixed barebones playlist.<\/p>\n • <\/span>Added 12 player versions of all playlists.<\/p>\n This update follows a similar launch on Xbox and PS3 earlier this week, although PS3 gamers are still complaining about connectivity issues. <\/p>\n