SteamCMD

Ravendagrey · Mar 2, 2016

@Renato Simioni
@Alex Sawczuk

Will AMS support SteamCMD for hosting dedicated servers? If so any plans for Linux Support?

Ravendagrey · Mar 2, 2016

I figured this would be a topic of discussion as with SteamCMD you can logon to steam anonymously and run a dedicated server without being locked out of your games in your library

Kevin Cox · Mar 2, 2016

Agreed. This needs sorting asap.

Ravendagrey · Mar 3, 2016

Any chance we could get some info if SteamCMD will be supported for running Dedicated Servers?

Kevin Cox · Mar 7, 2016

Shameless bump.

Ravendagrey · Mar 7, 2016

Well after some playing around I am able to download and update the game using steamCMD and my steam login but whenever I try and load the server without the normal steam client running it just crashes as soon as it tries to load the track.

Stefan Mizzi · Jan 13, 2017

Right, that's a shame. So its still the same, that is, I cannot host a dedicated server unless I am logged in with my steam account on the server!!??

Alex Sawczuk · Jan 13, 2017

No, you can download the dedicated server via tools

Stefan Mizzi · Jan 13, 2017

Alex Sawczuk said:
No, you can download the dedicated server via tools

OK, thanks Alex. But I cannot see it on the server. Do I need to be logged in on the server with the steam ID that I bought AMS with?

Reason I am asking is that we are checking if its feasible to include AMS in www.justrace.net

Björn · Jan 13, 2017

From our experiences, SteamCMD is semi-supported: We're downloading/updating/verifying AMS via SteamCMD (dedicated server app, anonymous logon) and that part works just fine.
However, the Steam server list integration seems to require the full Steam client to be running (can be offline, so I reckon it's some API usage via DLLs not included/compatible with SteamCMD) - so you'll always have to have both, SteamCMD and Steam, running in order for the server to be properly listed. While this seems redundant, its advantage is you won't have to switch on/offline with the full Steam client in order to update the dedicated server app itself as you can do this through SteamCMD scripts.