Dec 16, 2010 08:40 GMT  ·  By

Hot on the heels of a problematic update for Call of Duty: Black Ops on the PlayStation 3, development studio Treyarch has just deployed an update for the PC version of the first person shooter, through Valve's Steam service.

As you all know, Call of Duty: Black Ops, even if it sold a huge amount of copies, hasn't exactly had the best of debuts on the PC or PlayStation 3 platforms, as it was plagued by lag and glitches, even after subsequent patches.

Now, a new update has been rolled out through the Steam service, and will be automatically applied the next time players start the game.

As you can see in the list below, a lot of problems have been fixed, new features were added while other exploits were patched.

As a bonus, Treyarch also modified the settings for those that are running custom Black Ops servers, in order to enhance their own experience.

Check out all of the changes in the big list below.

-Improved threading performance on computers with only 2 cores. -Additional performance optimizations -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. -Fixed random freezes in certain computer configurations. -Allow Team Change on Ranked servers when it does not unbalance teams (this is a server admin option). -Allow Team Change grace period at start of match (server admin option). -Added 4 more reserved slots (server admin option) -Added /connect -Improved quickmatch results (server side change) -Fix for watching films through Combat Record -Fixed compassSpectatorsSeeEnemies exploit -Fixed 3rd person fov exploit -Fix for infinite supply drop exploit. -Fixed crosshair flickering when stereo is active. -Various spawn improvements -Various sound improvements -Fix for Zombies – Teammate shadows not displayed properly. -Fix for radar not staying on in One in the Chamber when it should. -In a Domination match, the Position Secured medal is no longer delayed. -'Hardened: Equipment Shot' Challenge can now be completed by destroying a 'Camera Spike'. -Fix for choppy final killcam in dedicated servers. -Various map glitches fixed. -Weekly and Monthly leaderboards will now track all kills, deaths and assists properly (All Time leaderboards were not affected by this) -Added mixed hardcore playlist -Added mixed barebones playlist -Added 12 player versions of all playlists

Rcon

-Reduced timeout values. Connect (or failure to connect is faster). -Added all white-listed dvars for Ranked and Unranked. Admins have rcon access to ALL available dvars. -Added Settings and Console tabs for Ranked servers. -Fixes a bug where the “Server” tab doesn’t update values when connecting to a new server. -Added version number to the title bar. -Fixed a bug where UI state didn’t persist after switching to another server. -Added “disconnect” button. -Fixed map “set” to not use admindvar. -Changed all dvars which could be possibly float, to float. Mostly these are time-type dvars. -Fixed bug where entering a value of zero for Message Duration would cause a unhandled exception error -Truncated all message fields to 140 chars

Judging by the first reactions from the Call of Duty forums, this new patch has improved the game significantly, so players should download it without any worry.

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