Error verifying steamuserid

[pengy]

I keep getting the error above even though it works for a while, then randomly stops working. Is my server losing connection to the steam servers? If I restart the server, the problem goes away.

start /high /wait C:\Gaming\Legion\CSS\Server4\srcds.exe -console -game cstrike +map bhop_advi_fix -maxplayers 24 -ip 67.199.21.215 -port 27045 -tickrate 100 +fps_max 512 -heapsize 2048000

L 02/09/2009 - 10:40:47: "Alt<292><STEAM_ID_PENDING><>" connected, address "67.76.194.210:23475"
L 02/09/2009 - 10:40:48: "Alt<292><STEAM_0:0:21374162><>" STEAM USERID validated
L 02/09/2009 - 10:41:01: "Alt<292><STEAM_0:0:21374162><>" entered the game
L 02/09/2009 - 10:41:11: "Alt<292><STEAM_0:0:21374162><Unassigned>" joined team "CT"
L 02/09/2009 - 10:47:26: "BALLIN. Peri0diCCC<293><STEAM_ID_PENDING><>" connected, address "67.33.162.64:27005"
L 02/09/2009 - 10:47:26: "BALLIN. Peri0diCCC<293><STEAM_ID_PENDING><>" disconnected (reason "Error verifying STEAM UserID Ticket")
L 02/09/2009 - 10:47:34: "cN.AimWeePee<294><STEAM_ID_PENDING><>" connected, address "194.144.66.121:27005"
L 02/09/2009 - 10:47:35: "cN.AimWeePee<294><STEAM_ID_PENDING><>" disconnected (reason "Error verifying STEAM UserID Ticket")

[St1flus]

Dude it's happening to me too, steam is fucking up...
O_O

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ALSO: I was going to post a thread just like you, except I thought it was just me... So, thanks for the thread, steam will probably get to fixing it, unless there is already a way to fix it any of the mods know..

[Doggie52]

It's random, it has to do with Steam not being able to authenticate the user-accounts. Search for more info on the steampowered.com site!

[St1flus]

Yeah... It means steam is failing, like usual... We just said that...
and it's not random.. we had a massive time with that yesterday, hopefully they fixed it by now...

[Mooga]

Assuming people are using LEGIT version of the game, it's probably a steam issue. If this happens ALL the time then there might be an issue where your server or firewall is blocking something.

[St1flus]

Doesn't look like the bug is happening anymore... guess steam resolved it.

[Spartanfrog]

Every once in a while I know my server would drop everyone due to that issue. I still have no clue why.

[Drocona]

It happens when the steam master server in your region goes down.

[Spartanfrog]

Damn Drocona, how do you know that ?

[Drocona]

There are 2 things that can mess up the STEAMID verification and those are the servers from VALVe and my network.

As my network is professionally configured and constantly monitored I know it's not my network that fails. So there's only one thing left and that's the steam servers.
It also explains why some servers won't work and some will, because they are on different regions (every region has different servers).

Sometimes on the client, something goes wrong with .blob files, which you can delete and restart steam to fix it... or not if the server is down

[pengy]

Seems to be fixed now

[pengy]

Nevermind, it started happening again