Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Team Fortress 2 Dedicated Server throwing Steam Validation Rejected on join

If your Team Fortress 2 Dedicated Server is giving you "STEAM Validation Rejected" or the following log entry below...
S3: Client connected with ticket for the wrong game
You might want to workaround the issue by...
First validating your dedicated server files...
1. Go to folder X:/.../steamapps/YOUR_ACCOUNT/source 2007 dedicated server/
2. Create a new "steam_appid" file, without extension.
3. Open it and write: 440
4. Save changes
5. Try running the server again

2 comments:

7689Jay said...

I did what u said...MY port iz forwarded..but yet i get this--> S3: Client connected with ticket for the wrong game: UserID: 2
Please HELP!

MisYahd said...

I also get that error "S3: Client connected with ticket for the wrong game: UserID: 2" Is there any other reason why this is happening? Like the data center perhaps?