SteamCMD - anything broken recently?

MileSeven

MileSeven

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I’ve got really good broadband (well, 500MBs) but for the last week or so, SteamCMD is failing with every download I try (time out basically). The two files I’ve just tried and failed with multiple times aren’t that big either - last weeks was multi Gb and understandable….

Anything up just now?
 
Add the word validale to your command line.

for example:
steamcmd.exe +login anonymous +workshop_download_item 365960 WorkshopNumber +quit validate

if it times out or fails, try again and it will continue downloading where it left off.
 
Thanks. I’ve added that to my script but no joy….

I’ve even tried downloading small packages that worked fine a while back but they time out (quickly) too.


…but we only had the 500MBs BB installed a few weeks ago (new router). I opened the same ports as before (my rf2 server works fine) but maybe it’s a port issue? Does SteamCMD actually need specific ports? (Off to google…)
 
Baffled now. I found reference to needing TCP/UDP 27015-27150 needed to log in and download content - but (despite not needing those before as far as I’m aware) it hasn’t helped. The file size of the content I’m gunning for is only 400Mb - which is nothing really.
 
Doubly baffled. Deleted all content in the destination SteamCMD folder and then deleted all content and patch files etc. in the SteamCMD downloads folder. Reinitiated the download (several times) and the file appears in the download folder (382MB) but Content Manager refuses to acknowledge it when I copy it across.

I think I’m going to have to resort to sneakernet and move the files across on USB from my racing rig. Again. I’ve checked and cleared out a good 10GB of redundant files from the server (an old but very capable Win7 laptop) so it’s not even as if it’s running out of space. I’ve done an Oklahoma speed test and the laptop/server is getting the full 500MBs download we’re paying for.
 
I have made a few uploads recently, and both times I think I did it on weekends. Could it be that steam might be overloaded on weekends ? To me upload sometimes fails completely, sometimes fails with yellow message but after a while simply continues again. I haven't been uploading more than 200mb recently, and my PC upload is very low.
 
just did a quick check, for me paid content is failing, non paid stuff is downloading correctly. With the paid stuff I even tried the "old" way, logging in with username and password but still failed....tried AMG GT3 (1596822282) and Zolder (3544624854)
 
The kicker is that download to client machines (I.e. via Steam itself) is always reliable - but anonymous SteamCMD isn’t. I’ll try again in the morning and also double check when our BB switched over - the last successful SteamCMD download was on 7th November. I typically only download once a week for our regular races but I think the BB went live before the 7th so….?!?
 
Downloaded an update yesterday fine, just downloaded the AMG GT3 Goanna ID'd above, no issues (anonymous login).
 
Lazza said:
Downloaded an update yesterday fine, just downloaded the AMG GT3 Goanna ID'd above, no issues (anonymous login).
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Still a no go for me, Brisbane Line in effect ;).... for those of you who have no idea what that means, well in WW2 when the Japanese army looked like invading Australia the government of the day drew a line just north of Brisbane, which was the "they shall not pass this line" basically saying they would not strenuously defend anything north of that line....
 
I had an issue with steamcmd failing downloads as well a couple weeks ago, I was using an old version that didn't update for some reason, just deleted it and downloaded a fresh version and it worked.
 
My steamcmd did update when I went to download something yesterday... but hadn't touched anything for nearly 3 months, so no idea when that came out.
 
Deleted my steamcmd folder and reinstalled steamcmd and all works.....
SteamCMD-Working-30Nov25.png
 
Solved here to, kinda…

Deleted the entire SteamCMD folder and reinstalled…

…but my script still failed. Ran it from a cmd prompt rather than a batch file (as the batch window kept closing despite not having a +quit) and found that ‘your os is no longer supported - but you can try and override this with +overrideminos’ (override minimum os)

This has worked but for how long is anyone’s guess.

The server is a Win7 laptop - it was my late fathers photo editing machine and has some software that i’d lose (I think) if I upgraded it to Win10 so until rf2/SteamCMD totally breaks, I’ll leave it alone.
 
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