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“No Steam Logon” Error Strikes Again..

I know there are 1-2 threads already opened on this issue and have been a lot in this whole time, but when will YOU DEVS give us a real fix for it?!

I’ve had this problem until de Diretide event last year, since then it ran smoother, at least on European servers (whenever I picked US or Asia, after 3-4 matches Steam would go Offline in friends and I would get disconnected and sent back to the menu with the “No Steam Logon” error). Every other program that uses internet like browsers and IM work cause I’ve opened them to test each time this happened so I’m connected to the internet, only Steam isn’t. As soon as I closed the game, I would go Online again on friends and the connection would be live again, but upon restarting dota 2 and reconnecting to the game, the issue would persist after a few minutes of playtime disconnecting me nearly every 30 seconds which is frustrating cause I only got to go past the middle of the map across the river, I’d get disconnected, until I reconnected I’d be back at the fountain and I had to go back and imagine this happening every minute for however long the game lasted, and all those disconnected seconds would sum up to 5 minutes and I’d get low priority in the end.

Now the problem reappears after your last patch with the IT3 items and all that, and it’s a pain in the ass because now I get this error even when playing on EU servers, where I had no problems since last Diretide as mentioned above. So now I can’t play Dota 2 on any god damn server and what was supposed to be a relaxing game, now turned into frustration and anger because I can’t do anything about it and I can’t play anywhere, and I wanna play Dota 2 obviously.

I know most users will jump and say, get yourself a good internet provider or whatever and will find other excuses for my problem, but I’ll explain myself: I’m downloading games on Steam with 6-10MBps, when I play any other multiplayer games my pings are very good (around 20 or less in CS:GO and around 50ms in Dota 2 EU servers), and this disconnecting from friends thing only happens in a few games but mostly in Dota 2 where I get punished the hardest with the No Steam Logon error that sends me back to the menu, and Half-Life 2 where I only notice when achievements don’t pop-up in game so I alt-tab and see that I’m Offline on friends again (like stated above, right after I close the game that causes this, I go Online again on Steam, so it must be related to the Steam Service that somehow disconnects, cause I’m permanently connected to the internet and I check the network status or open a browser.

I’m not using a proxy, but using a router that has no firewall and not using any firewall of any kind, not even windows’ and running most of my games in borderless windowed mode though I don’t think this has anything to do with the problem, maybe the router though? So far I’ve tried any fixes that I saw mostly on these forums, none of which have worked:
– verified game cache
– setting Network quality to Low in Dota 2 settings
– opening Steam using – tcp startup parameter
– setting high priority in task manager
– forwarding ports in the launch options like +clientport 27016 +tv_port 27016 +udp_port 27016 (forgot the exact commands, but something on those lines)
– tried running it with these parameters – nod3d9ex – dxlevel 81
– exiting dota 2 after I got the error, closing Steam and restarting it and reconnecting to the game
– maybe some more, but forgot now, feel free to post new

TL;DR
-before Diret > – after Diret > – after IT3 patch = everything got fcukd up again and receiving errors all the time

This has something to do with authentication and I also noticed Steam updated yesterday, but when I’m in Dota 2 and I receive the No Steam logon error and I use Task Manager to close “gameoverlayui. exe” I immediately get the “Not connected to steam servers..” in friends, but after a few seconds it goes back Online, and everything works fine, until the “gameoverlayui. exe” restarts and the errors start popping again. I’ve narrowed it down to this, so it has to be related.

I’ve contacted Steam support also, but they sent me here, so if you can’t help me and will post copy-pasted support articles it clearly means paying customers (I bought a lot of games on Steam and spent money in the Dota 2 Store) are not important to Valve, and our gameplay experience that should be great like you stated in the “communication ban” article isn’t on the high priority list, and you prefer to focus more on cosmetic in game items for money (it’s no shame, we all want that).

I honestly wanna see if any of the devs is actually willing to help and not post copy-pasted messages cause I’m willing to offer more info of my specs, logs or whatever you need to help fix this issue, not only for me, but for all the players that have to deal with it (like I said there are and were more threads opened on this subject).