Not really sure how to explain your situation. Being dropped from a server for no steam logon is when the backend tells the server to drop a client.
I'm not sure how graphics settings can affect that in any way. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Bruno Garcia <[email protected]>wrote: > Ryan, This is quite odd, because I'm the only one that's getting > disconnected on my own CS:S server... > If a CM went down wouldn't more than 1 person get disconnected? > > However, i have confirmed that using the game on windowed mode i don't get > disconnected *at all* > It sounds weird, and it is. I know because i worked beta-testing games for > years ... > > I believe that my particular case is different to the explication you gave > ... Because if this is really a CM going down then somebody else on my > server should be getting kicked as well... or at least my brother should be > getting disconnected since we're in the same house > > Don't you think this might be different ? > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Ryan Stecker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The way the old auth system used to work is that when a new client > > connected > > to a game server, the GS would attempt to authenticate just that client > > with > > the steam backend. > > > > The new auth system works in a little different way. Instead of > > authenticating just that single user, it will re-authenticate every user > > already on the server in addition to the one that just joined. > > > > The network layout of the steam backend is a little complex, but to sum > it > > up there are seperate reverse proxy servers called CM or Connection > > Masters. > > There's something like 30-40 of these servers at any time, and everyone > is > > connected to one of them. These are the servers you communicate with when > > you're connected to steam. > > > > The reason you see "no steam logon" for groups of clients and not the > > entire > > server is because one or two CMs went down, or otherwise disconnected the > > clients that were connected to it. When the backend attempts to > > reauthenticate all the clients on the server, it will drop the clients > > which > > lost connection to the CM with the "no steam logon" message, because > that's > > indeed what happened. They lost their connection to steam and aren't > logged > > on anymore. > > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:07 PM, [email protected] > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Oh is that what happened? I've been seeing a lot of 10-20 people > > > dropping at the same time for (No Steam Login) recently. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ryan Stecker <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > It has nothing to do with your DX level. > > > > > > > > Failure code 1 is EAuthSessionResponseUserNotConnectedToSteam, and 8 > is > > > > k_EAuthSessionResponseAuthTicketInvalid. > > > > > > > > All that happened is that you lost your connection to the steam > > backend, > > > and > > > > the game server dropped you once someone joined the server. > > > > > > > > All of this started happening with the new authentication changes a > few > > > > months ago. Instead of every client only being authenticated with the > > > > backend once, it does it multiple times each time a client connects. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Bruno Garcia < > [email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hello, > > > >> > > > >> Since the past 4 months i can't play Counter-Strike: Source, and i > can > > > >> barely play Team Fortress 2.. > > > >> Now that there has been an update to determinate what caused the > > > no-steam > > > >> logon, i have been getting this on console > > > >> > > > >> CClientSteamContext OnSteamServersConnected logged on = 1 > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> STEAMAUTH: Client [NIN] received failure code 1 > > > >> > Dropped [NIN] from server (No Steam logon > > > >> > ) > > > >> > Disconnect: No Steam logon > > > >> > . > > > >> > Disconnect: No Steam logon > > > >> > . > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> STEAMAUTH: Client [NIN] received failure code 8 > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> I believe this is related to my directx level configuration, since a > > few > > > >> weeks ago i have set directx to 9.1 and i wouldn't get > kicked...After > > a > > > >> while i decided to get a little more FPS, so i set it back to 8.1 > > > thinking > > > >> the issue has been fixed, and that's when i started getting no-steam > > > logon > > > >> again. > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > > > >> please visit: > > > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > > > please visit: > > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
