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'''<code>Tier1</code>''' contains Valve's version of the [[Wikipedia:Standard Template Library|Standard Template Library]], known as <code>CUtl</code> (high-performance game engines [http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html#Motivation rarely use an operating system's own STL implementation]). It also provides various other Source-specific features, most notably console commands/variables.

Tier1's source is included in the SDK at <code>\root\tier1\</code>. It compiles to a [[w:Static library|static library]] that is linked by both game DLLs.

See also [[Tier1]].