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Title: Dedicated servers and steam accounts. Post by: Valmorian on November 07, 2008, 09:07:51 AM I have two systems at home and would very much like to be able to set up a temporary game server on one of them. I've tried this before with TF2, but I was unable to do so, mainly because it appears as though you need to have an additional copy of the game in order to set up a dedicated server. Is this true? Very disappointing if so.. :(
Title: Re: Dedicated servers and steam accounts. Post by: schild on November 07, 2008, 09:22:33 AM Not necessarily, generally you just need the install files and can generate a key for the dedicated server. Depends though. Were you thinking of doing it for L4D? Because it seems folks are getting the dedicated shit elsewhere.
Title: Re: Dedicated servers and steam accounts. Post by: Valmorian on November 07, 2008, 09:58:07 AM Eventually I'd like to have a dedicated server for whatever I want to run.. How do I generate a key for it? I have the server files downloaded and installed on my second system.
Title: Re: Dedicated servers and steam accounts. Post by: schild on November 07, 2008, 10:06:37 AM It looks like you could create a steam account on your second box and they're all under tools tied to that steam account. I imagine the keys are automagically generated. I have access to dedicated servers for which I don't even own the games. What problem are you running into trying to set it up?
Title: Re: Dedicated servers and steam accounts. Post by: schild on November 07, 2008, 10:11:47 AM https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7017-UJBN-6785
That looks like it covers everything. Title: Re: Dedicated servers and steam accounts. Post by: Valmorian on November 07, 2008, 10:14:11 AM Thanks!
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