What is Protocol 48 in Counter Strike?

[Yatrik]

Hi guys!
I used to play Counter Strike 24x7 a year ago. Due to by board exams i quit the game for about a year. And recently i started playin Counter Strike again on LAN with my friends. But yesterday i tried to play on the internet, i got a protocol error. It said "The server is using a higer protocol (48) version than you are using" something like that. I cannot connect to many of the servers, and the ones which i can connect to are have very high latency, i cannot play on that servers as the game lags a lot...
Any help to me?

[Hitman22]

Protocol 48 error which you are getting is because your game is old and out dated. Run steam and it will automatically update your counter strike game. If it doesn not work try to re-install steam and counter strike then update steam... i got it working the same way...

[Yatrik]

Hey thanks for the solution but mine is a non-steam game. Any other ways to update my counter strike? please help me! because it too boring to play against the bots... feel like playing with a noob! Thanks in advance...!

[Mario2]

Here is fix for non-steam counter strike :

• Download the upgrade to protocol 48
• Install CS Protocol 48 upgrade
• Download Protocol 47 and Protocol 48 Switcher
• Install the Switcher
• Run the Game in desired protocol.

The switcher isn't necessary if you want to play CS on in protocol 48 mode but if you want to play the game with both protocols, the switcher would be essential...

Download Protocol 48 Upgrade

Download 47-48 Protocol Switcher


All the best...!