Invalid Steam UserID Ticket Solution

Peepeewilson

Hello there,

It has recently come to our attention that an epidemic is sweeping the Source mod community. Players all across the globe are encountering this error when trying to play their favorite games:

For those of you experiencing this issue, fear not! There may be a solution.

1. Delete the contents of your steam directory EXCEPT these files:
- The steamapps folder (and its contents)
- Steam.exe

2. Run Steam.exe
- Steam will redownload all of the files you deleted and verify the contents of your steamapps folder. (Credible sources say this process only takes a couple minutes)

3. Test the game!

*NOTE: This solution does not apply exclusively to PVK2. If you're having this issue in another Source mod, give it a try.

Let's all thank Miggog, our resident genius, for bringing this fix to light.

Until next time!

Your pal,
Peepeewilson

shayologo

I had this error last week but i fixed it yesterday with same solution

unnamed2

Finally, something new on the page, will be better than seeing that damn tournament announcement.

Anyway, I haven't played source games in a while so I don't know if I have this problem. I will check it out when I have time.

Gødric

How nice of you to post something on the site.Even if it's not directly pvk II directed it's good to see some initiative.Hope to see something regarding 3.0 update soon.

Aroth77

Or wait for Valve to release a speedy patch...

Troll Face Kyle

I found a Solution to this problem on my own 2 weeks ago that doesnt require as much butchering, delete all the FILES in your steam folder except steam.exe and any .log files (you can delete but it is not causing the issue) along with the UserData and Bins Folder, thats how I fixed mine and 5 others, if someone who has this issue could maybe only delete on of the folders to see if its a specific one (My bets on the userdata folder, based on the error) and report back that would be great.

P.S. Never played PVKII, but really just wanted to lend a hand to this annoying mistake by valve.

Mayday

kyle, there's no reason to delete the steamapps folder unless you fancy downloading all of your games again. it's just a directory for downloaded files and has nothing to do with the operation of steam, so it's okay to leave it.

Troll Face Kyle

If you read what I wrote it says you only have to delete the files and 2 folders nothing about steamapps

Peepeewilson

This issue has been brought to us by several players over the past three weeks. I've been reading forums and emailing Valve about what causes the issue, but none of the offered solutions seem to be universally successful. Deleting the entire contents of your Steam folder with the exception of steam.exe and the steamapps folder was the only way to ensure that most people's issue would be fixed.

We appreciate your input, though! Welcome to the forums.

Unknown

Solved the problem. Thanks!

Aleihr

Though I've taken care of this problem before, about a half a year ago. Its good to see this help announcement topic up for easy reach for others.
I've forgotten exactly how I did it, it was a little differant but very similar. I think it was something about removing or renaming a .BLOB file or something.

Peepeewilson

Yes, clientregistry.blob

That usually works, but we found lots of people weren't able to fix their problems by deleting that file alone.

Unknown

I didn't need to delete the whole folder. I deleted the clientregistry.blob + "userdata" folder. It worked for me and some other people too.

Unknown

So many people have this issue lately ;(

Aleihr

Its been around for YEARS if I remember right. I thought it felt familiar when I went through this in the previously mentioned instance, if I recall I've went through this a couple years or so ago.
And when I looked for a solution for it, I was finding people posting about on boards about the same damn problem, get this, back in like 2003 or so.
Why is such an ancient problem still occurring?

Lt.Hargrove

Becouse ancient evil always attack "modern" people.

But yup, 8 years in electronic market is really ancient.

Uncle Peat

its good

Lucas

QUOTE (Uncle Peat @ Dec 2 2011, 08:58 PM) »

its good

Yeah It's awesome that people can't play the game they like

Miggog

QUOTE (Lucas =) @ Dec 3 2011, 01:39 PM) »

Yeah It's awesome that people can't play the game they like

He means the fix, don't he?

Glad to help and remember this is a foolproof fix for a few other errors aswell that might occur in Steam. For example my hammer gets jammed every once in while with an error message "Failed to take Master Pipe Connection lock" and isn't willing to open anymore. No idea where that error comes from but I use this to fix it.

Tschoppo

also got this error several times.. guess its some kind of joke, as Hammer is "steampowered" and thus can´t work without connection to a "master-steampipe".

Unknown

never had that problem in my 800 hours

chevron

This is happening again

Mayday

Ya happened to me too. Takes no more than two minutes to fix though.

Hei

I got it yesterday too

Mayday wrote:

Takes no more than two minutes to fix though.

Colonel

Happened to me yesterday. Followed the steps. Only downside is that my categories are gone, but no real fracks given.

Pache94

same with both on Colonel Sanders

dannyjohnson2121

where in steam do you find steam exe

Colonel

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe (DONT DELETE ME BROTHER!)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps (DONT DELETE ME BROTHER!)

The Old Fox

ATTENTION NUBS: Before you go and delete everything on your dad's computer, try this:

1. Right-click the effected game in your games list
2. Go to Properties ->Local Files
3. Click "Verify Integrity of Game Cache..."

It will check your files and simply update any corrupted ones.

And for those of you who don't know how to read (I know you're out there) here's a picture:

(note: if you don't know how to count I can't help you)

Paladin

An Alternative way to fix Invalid Steam UserID Ticket

Remove the "config" folder from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam". Run Steam, log in (Steam then asks for authorization, so get your e-mail ready) and done. It works.

Rather than deleting everything except steam.exe and the steamapps folder.

Peepeewilson

Just to clarify, cute babes: My posted solution to the SteamID ticket error is the only universal fix. Verifying the integrity of your game cache, deleting clientregistry.blob, and deleting the config folder may work for some people, but won't for everyone.

That is why I felt the original post was worthy of the front page.