I'm sorry you feel this way, but the Invalid Steam User ID problem is mod-wide. You can head over the forums of most other mods, and they're all having the same issues. It's a Valve problem with SDK Base 2007.
Steam is being disablist and calling me an invalid again.... None of the techniques described worked and I can't be arsed to google it. Any ideas.... come one guys... I make up at least 25% of the empires community. You cant afford to lose me.
Well isn't this just wonderful. I'm having this issue again as well. Haven't tried any fixes yet, so with any luck the ones here will work again. EDIT: Deleting the clientregistry.blob worked again for me, and this error is widespread yet again. Many people on servers today said they encountered the issue and fixed it by deleting clientregistry.blob
This error hit myself and ScRaT tonight. I followed the instructions in this thread and the one on Steam which says: Exit Steam, blow away the whole steam folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam) except Steam.exe and SteamApps, reboot. It reinstalls, requires you to login and re-verify - but still Empires will not work. Error: "Disconnect: Invalid Steam UserID Ticket" Other ideas here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_search.php?searchwords=invalid+steam+ticket Another little piece of the puzzle - when it fails with this error and you exit Empires. hl2.exe sometimes remains in memory. Your FRIEND account will show you are still in Empires. So if you see guys IN empires and think this is fixed, you might want to try and join just to verify it, or check the viper/epic server status. I'll try again tomorrow. <I just tried again today and same result> Anyone else getting this since yesterdays Steam update, and has anyone resolved it ? Only other fix besides deleting EVERYTHING but steam.exe and SteamApps is to uninstall game and repeat the delete, then reinstall. For now I guess the other 50% of regular players (ScRaT and myself) are done for. This may help some, it did nothing for me: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4100-WEAK-4375 I also found this interesting: "Two Computers, one Account Problem Something else that can cause this is if there is another computer that is using the same Steam account. When you log into a second computer with the same account that is running on the first, the Steam Ticket will invalidate on the first machine and transfer to the new Session. This means that the first machine will then eventually prompt for a login to establish a new SteamUserID Ticket, and if the person on that machine logs in, then the ticket will then transfer back to him. You need a unique Steam Account for each computer that is going to be online at the same time."
game don't frikkin work!!! sup tricks!! Basically the same thing Kyro said here: http://forums.empiresmod.com/showpost.php?p=428097&postcount=15 I'll copy&paste so you don't have to click Hello, Can't connect to a server today... Invalid Steam User ID... I tried everything: deleted the "userdata" folder, Steam\config\config.vdf and Steam\clientregistry.blob, but nothing works, problem still here... I've already applied the fix for the MountAppFilesystem() failed: SteamMountAppFilesystem(17740,4294967295,0x19f5fc0 c) failed with error 5: No CS online with App 17741 Ver 0. error from before and it was working about two weeks ago. But now I'm getting the bullshit invalid Steam ID error and like Kyro said nothing works. delete clientregistry.blob, nope. Any of the other fixes I've found in these forums, nope. I've been launching the game from SourceSDK2007 in Tools like the homepage says but now I'm going to try downloading the gcf files and running it like normal. OH and whoever runs Steam should burn in a fire. pcz
Solstice - how old is that information ? As of a couple days ago everyone is having this problem regardless of whether they are running Source SDK 2007 or the original without SDK workaround. Have you tried running Empires and joining the server ? Joining will fail with Invalid Ticket UserID... error. Has anyone been able to join a server? Is anyone contacting Steam about a solution?
Check out my thread, The user Id Ticket error is affecting all mods using sdk source 2007, it is a steam issue, no fix atm. http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=18152
There are ways around it. Not sure if posting how to on here is allowed. But the work around would make all server bans have to be IP bans.
Hi JustGoFly, it was new from yesterday. Yes I could join the server for about five seconds then it always kicks me back out with the invalid Steam ID error.
My understanding is that Valve screwed something up. Many Source 2007 SDK games are screwed. Vicki has been working on it and is desperate to find a fix, but this is out of her and the developers hands. I asked Vicki to keep first post of this thread up to date. She's looking through the forums for an answer or work around. http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=18152
Vicki is my hero - she found a work around and put the time in to figure out how to fix it. VIPER IS UP !
Just putting this out there, I'm fairly certain that most client-side fixes will not be able to fix this problem, nor will most server-side effects. I'm theorizing that it has something to do with the new Steam streaming service causing client authentication issues on the Steam backend, but no one outside of Valve would really be able to say what the problem is.