error verifying STEAM ID

realchaos1 · Post by **realchaos1** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:34 pm

I tried VAC off, VAC on, for some reason I cant connect to the server I rented, just keeps giving me this error:

You have been disconnected from the server. Reason: Error verifying STEAM ID Ticket(server was unable to contact authentication server, 27).

I am extremely disatisfied since my 2 day trial period has been plagued by this little error. It worked for a few hours, finally this error started coming up. Is there any way I could have the trial period restarted? I want to play around with the fallout server.

Is there any solution to this?

Just to let you know, i can join Secure VAC servers, so there is no reason to assume my steam id was banned or anything.

Post by **Edge100x** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:59 pm

That's not a VAC error, that's a Steam error. That error means that the Steam authentication server is having issues, which unfortunately is completely beyond our control. Steam has had quite a few periods of downtime lately.

Sometimes restarting your server will eliminate this error, because it might choose a new auth server to try to connect to.

If you continue to have problems, you should email us.

Nick|NFo · Post by **Nick|NFo** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:02 pm

log out and log back into your steam client. That should fix your client issue.

Post by **Edge100x** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:03 pm

True, often this error is client-side.

metro · Post by **metro** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:35 pm

It wouldn't hurt to log out of Steam, reboot, and then log back in when the computer is finished booting up. I get this problem too, as well as an Expired User Ticket. This is a quick fix and unfortunately happens with Steam occaisionally.