I have also suffered from this error, is there any official word on a fix
when running older servers with the newer steamcmd on the same box?

Joe
On 15 Aug 2012 17:12, "Dan Offord" <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you're running this on windows, this will fix it without copying over
> dll's / exe files :(
>
> reg delete HKCU\Software\Valve\Steam\ActiveProcess /f
>
> From what I can see, steamcmd is setting an ActiveProcess variable
> everytime this is run for updating csgo/killingfloor, in turn forces a
> SteamDLL value of:
> C:\games\killingfloor\bin\steamclient.dll
>
> If you remove this value, all games will carry on working as normal (eg
> Killing Floor will still load etc)
>
> Regards,
>
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> On 15 August 2012 15:12, Chris | Immortal-Servers.com <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> i found a fix for this.
>>
>> download this and extract to the where the .exe is in the root of the game
>>
>> http://immortal-servers.com/**downloads/steam.rar<http://immortal-servers.com/downloads/steam.rar>
>>
>> it is steam files, i did this and works fine.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: G. Hutchinson
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:01 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [hlds] Steam support library
>>
>>
>> Ok this is getting annoying. Normally I am pretty good at figuring
>> issues out and this one has been a thorn in my side for a month now.
>> I had to break apart a RAID so as to swap out a drive going bad. Ever
>> since then, I encounter the following (not always, but often enough to
>> suck):
>>
>> L 08/15/2012 - 08:30:09: Initializing Steam libraries for secure
>> Internet server
>> L 08/15/2012 - 08:30:10:
>> ***********************************************************
>> L 08/15/2012 - 08:30:10: * Unable to load Steam support library.*
>> L 08/15/2012 - 08:30:10: * This server will operate in LAN mode only.*
>> L 08/15/2012 - 08:30:11:
>> ***********************************************************
>>
>> Aside from installing the steam client on the server, which it had
>> never been or had to be installed on prior to run the servers
>> publicly. For some reason installing  the client remedies the issue.
>> But I notice sometimes it still fails occasionally. Un-installing and
>> reinstalling and/or leaving installed the client seems to fix. ONLY
>> that seems to fix it so far. My suspicion is somewhere there is a
>> registry link bad in the OS (Windows server 08, R2) pertaining to
>> hlds or such.
>>
>> - verify_all does nothing to help the situation, my cl startup is
>> fine and it annoys me to have the steam client on the server to begin
>> with. Again, from the initial setup I did not have to have it
>> installed and it ran for years just fine without ever installing the
>> client on the machine. Does anyone know a perm fix for this? Even
>> deleting all steam references in registry has been to no avail,
>> unless I missed some (searched Steam). Reinstalling hlds did not help
>> to fix any possible broken registry links or such. I am tired of
>> having to fire up and watch for this message I never had issue with
>> before, only to see it on occasion and have to un-install and
>> reinstall steam client... On a server... That should not have to have
>> the client installed... Searching mailing list archives, the only
>> remedy I have found is the installing of the client. This is not a
>> fix, rather something that is circumventing a broken link somewhere
>> in my opinion.
>>
>> It is not a firewall issue since that has not changed in years.
>> it is not a command line issue, they have not changed in years.
>> It is not a convar issue in any config, has not changed in years.
>> is not a SM, MM issue, updated and runs fine.
>> Reinstalling hlds did not help.
>> Virgin instances of the servers does not help.
>> Sometimes it happen after game server updates, sometimes after a
>> machine reboot.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hutch
>>
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