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Below is a guide to using SteamPipe, Valve's tool for delivering content to Steam. For more information on all-time practices for updating your game, see Updating Your Game - Best Practices.

Introduction to the SteamPipe Content System

SteamPipe is the game/application content system that powers Steam. SteamPipe includes the post-obit features:

• Efficient and fast content commitment.
  
• Unlimited public and private "beta" branches, assuasive multiple builds to be tested.
  
• Simple web-based management of builds - push out a new build or rollback to a previous build with just a few clicks.
  
• Power to run into the update size of a build before setting information technology live.
  
• Ability to share content between multiple applications.
  
• Power to build installer discs from public or beta content.
  
• Games/apps stay bachelor offline even after an update download has been started.
  
• All content is always encrypted, and non-active versions are non visible to customers.
  
• A SteamPipe Local Content Server which can be used during evolution.

Notation: There are a few concepts which are integral to SteamPipe, earlier getting started you should exist familiar with all of the concepts outlined in the Applications documentation. Having fifty-fifty a bones understanding of how these pieces fit together will be very useful when uploading your product to Steam.

Steamworks Video Tutorial - Building Your Game in Steampipe

This tutorial introduces SteamPipe and steps through building a sample application for Steam via the Steamworks tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoNH-v6aU9Q

Steamworks Video Tutorial - Adding New Platforms and Languages

This tutorial walks you through adding new platforms and languages to your game by adding depots to your app.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?five=PShS32hcing

SteamPipe Technical Details

SteamPipe uses the HTTP protocol for content delivery. Since downloads are regular web traffic, any tertiary-party HTTP cache between the client and Steam servers will increment download speed. Content can be hosted by external CDN providers, which tin can be easily added to our content network. Virtually consumer firewalls allow HTTP traffic and won't block downloads.

SteamPipe has an efficient patching algorithm based on binary deltas, simply changing the modified portions of existing content files. When this content is updated, simply these deltas need be sent. This ways both developer and user transfers are smaller and faster. Nearly partners will find that using a SteamPipe Local Content Server not necessary since they tin can efficiently patch builds on private branches.

Steam Build Account

Before you can create any builds on Steam, you must have a Steam account in your Steamworks account with the "Edit App Metadata" and "Publish App Changes To Steam" permissions granted. For security reasons it'due south recommended that you have a dedicated build account with only those permissions, you lot may create a new Steam account for this purpose at https://store.steampowered.com/join.

Any ambassador of your Steamworks account can add a Steam account and grant the necessary permissions. More information on this procedure tin can be found in the Managing Your Steamworks Business relationship documentation. An example of what this account might await similar is:

Initial Setup for New SteamPipe Apps

Follow these steps to set up new SteamPipe apps:

1. Notice the app ID for your application (this tin be found past selecting the application on your homepage in Steamworks)
   
2. Go to the General Installation Settings page for your app.
   
3. Define at least 1 launch option (the path and optionally, any arguments required to launch the game). Hover over the (?) to larn more nigh each field.

   The case below shows 5 launch options, 2 for Windows, ii for macOS and 1 for Linux.
   Launch option 3 will just exist shown on Windows if the user too owns the DLC specified.

   

4. Get to the Depots page and add depots every bit needed for this app. Past default, a depot may already be configured for your awarding.
   
   1. Click the default depot and change the name of the depot to a proper and recognizable name (such as "Base Content" or "Windows Content").
      
   2. Exit the linguistic communication set to [All languages] unless this is a language-specific depot.
      
   3. Leave the Os set up to [All OSes] unless this is an Bone-specific depot (if the app is all-in-1, or is just PC or just Mac, it should exist left to [All OSes]. Only specify for OS-specific game depots.
      
   4. Click Add New Depot to create boosted depots.
      
   5. Click Save Changes to save whatsoever changes made.
      
5. Once you lot are done defining your depots, publish the changes that you have made from the Publish page.
   
6. Your newly defined depots will need to exist included in a parcel to grant you buying of them. Each game on Steam should have a Developer Comp packet which is automatically granted to the accounts listed within your publisher group.
   Yous can add together the new depots to that packet (and/or other packages that should have these depots) on the Associated Packages & DLC page.

Note: If your executable is in a sub-folder of the master installation folder, add the sub-folder proper name in the Executable field. Don't use leading slashes or dots.

Platform Note: As shown higher up, macOS applications may be launched by specifying either an app package (Game.app) or a script/binary (Game.app/Contents/MacOS/Game). In general the app packet format should be preferred if possible as it allows macOS to more correctly make up one's mind launch parameters in the manner information technology would if launched manually outside of Steam.

Ane instance of this to notation is that currently applications that are launched through an app bundle on Apple tree Silicon devices will launch the all-time architecture available in the application whereas direct binary launches will employ the same architecture equally the Steam process (currently x86_64).

Setting up the SDK for SteamPipe uploads

Download and unzip the latest version of the Steamworks SDK on the machine yous volition be uploading builds on.

The SteamPipe tools can be institute inside the SDK in the tools folder which contains 2 relevant sub-directories.

The ContentBuilder directory is where your game content and SteamPipe build tools will alive. This directory contains the post-obit sub-directories:

• builder - This directory initially contains simply steamcmd.exe which is the command line version of Steam.
  
• builder_linux - The linux version of steamcmd.
  
• builder_osx - The macOS version of steamcmd.
  
• content - This directory contains all game files that volition be congenital into depots.
  
• output - This directory will be the location for build logs, chunk cache, and intermediate output. Note: This folder tin be deleted or emptied at any time, just after it's deleted, the adjacent upload time volition take longer.
  
• scripts - This directory is where you'll identify all of your build scripts for edifice your game depots.

It's recommended that you run steamcmd.exe direct in the builder folder for your platform once to bootstrap your build system. This should populate your architect directory with all the files it needs to build depots.

The ContentServer directory contains the tools for running your ain SteamPipe Local Content Server if y'all choose to do so.

SteamCmd on macOS

To enable SteamCmd on macOS y'all must complete the following steps:

1. From the concluding, browse to the tools\ContentBuilder\builder_osx\osx32 binder
   
2. Run chmod +x steamcmd
   
3. Browse upward to the parent folder (tools\ContentBuilder\builder_osx)
   
4. Type fustigate ./steamcmd.sh
   
5. SteamCmd will so run and update to the latest build, leaving y'all in the SteamCmd prompt
   
6. Type leave and printing return to leave the prompt

Y'all can then follow the rest of this documentation (substituting paths as advisable) to create depot and app config files for uploading your content to Steam.

Creating SteamPipe Build Config Files

To upload files for your app with SteamPipe, you must create scripts which describe your build and each depot that volition be included in it. The instance scripts shown here are in the Tools\ContentBuilder\scripts folder in the Steamworks SDK.

SteamPipe GUI Tool

If you're running on Windows and would prefer a GUI tool to help create these config files and upload your builds you can utilise the SteamPipeGUI which is bachelor in the tools folder of the Steamworks SDK. Included in the zip are additional instructions to get yous started.

If you choose to utilize the GUI tool and then reading the following sections is notwithstanding recommended to assist y'all get more familiar with how the SteamPipe arrangement works.

Simple Build Script

Let's start with the most basic build script possible. In our case nosotros have a game (AppID 1000) that has one depot (DepotID 1001) and want to upload all files from a content binder and it'southward subfolders. We just demand a single build script for that, accept a look at "simple_app_build.vdf" included in the SDK :

"AppBuild" { "AppID" "k" // your AppID "Desc" "This is a elementary build script" // internal description for this build "ContentRoot" "..\content\" // root content folder, relative to location of this file "BuildOutput" "..\output\" // build output folder for build logs and build cache files "Depots" { "1001" // your DepotID { "FileMapping" { "LocalPath" "*" // all files from contentroot folder "DepotPath" "." // mapped into the root of the depot "recursive" "1" // include all subfolders } } } }

Adjust the AppID and DepotID for your game as needed. To kick off a build yous demand to run steamcmd and pass a couple of parameters :

tools\ContentBuilder\builder\steamcmd.exe +login <account_name> <countersign> +run_app_build ..\scripts\simple_app_build.vdf +quit

NOTE: Your offset attempt at running a build may fail due to Steam Guard. If the login fails due to Steam Guard, check your e-mail for the Steam Guard code, and run steamcmd every bit: steamcmd.exe "set_steam_guard_code <code>", and try once more. After logging in with Steam Baby-sit once, a sentry file is used to verify the login is 18-carat.

If you are using steamcmd from a automobile or VM that gets re-imaged frequently, y'all should include the spotter and config file in your image so you won't be prompted for a Steam Guard every time. The sentry file is located in <Steam>\ssfn<hashOfNumbers>, and the config file is located in <Steam>\config\config.vdf.

The following steps occur during a SteamPipe build:

1. Steamcmd.exe volition update itself to the latest version.
   
2. Steamcmd.exe is logging into the Steam backend using the given builder Steam business relationship.
   
3. The app build start is registered with the MDS (Main Depot Server), which will ensure the user has the proper privileges to alter this app.
   
4. For each depot included in the app build, a file listing is generated based on the files in the content folder and the filter rules defined in depot build config file.
   
5. Each file is scanned and divided into modest chunks of nigh 1MB. If the depot has been built before, this partitioning will preserve every bit many of the unchanged chunks every bit possible.
   
6. New file chunks are compressed, encrypted, and then uploaded to the MDS.
   
7. A final manifest is generated for this depot version; each manifest is identified by a unique 64-chip manifest ID.
   
8. Once all depots take been processed, the MDS finishes this app build and assigns it a global BuildID.
   
9. Afterward the build is washed, at that place may be *.csm and *.csd files in the build ouput folder. These are temporary and can be deleted, but they speed up subsequent build times.

Once the build is complete you tin see it on your app builds page, in this case it would exist https://partner.steamgames.com/apps/builds/one thousand. At that place you tin set that build live for the default co-operative or whatsoever beta branch and users will be able to download this update with a couple of minutes.

Advanced Build Scripts

If your app has a lot of depots with complex file mapping rules, y'all tin create a depot build script for each depot which will exist referenced by the app build script. First allow'south take a expect at available parameters in the app build script:

• AppID - The AppID of your game. The uploading Steam partner business relationship needs 'Edit App Metadata' privileges
  
• Desc - The description is only visible to y'all in the 'Your Builds' section of the App Admin panel. This can be inverse at any fourth dimension after uploading a build on the 'Your Builds' folio.
  
• ContentRoot - The root binder of your game files, can be an absolute path or relative to the build script file.
  
• BuildOutput - This directory will be the location for build logs, depot manifests, clamper caches, and intermediate output. For best performance, use a separate deejay for your build output. This splits the deejay IO workload, letting your content root disk handle the read requests and your output deejay handle the write requests.
  
• Preview - This type of build but outputs logs and a file manifest into the build output binder. Building preview builds is a adept way to iterate on your upload scripts and brand sure your file mappings, filters and backdrop work as intended.
  
• Local - Set this to the htdocs path of your SteamPipe Local Content Server (LCS). LCS builds put content only on your own HTTP server and allow you to test the installation of your game using the Steam customer.
  
• SetLive - Beta branch name to automatically set alive after successful build, none if empty. Note that the 'default' branch can not be set live automatically. That must exist done through the App Admin panel.
  
• Depots - This department contains all file mappings, filters and file properties for each depot or references a separate script file for each depot

Example app build script "app_build_1000.vdf" is using all options:

"AppBuild" { "AppID" "g" // Your AppID "Desc" "Your build description here" // internal description for this build "Preview" "one" // make this a preview build only, goose egg is uploaded "Local" "..\..\ContentServer\htdocs" // put content on local content server instead of uploading to Steam "SetLive" "AlphaTest" // set up this build live on a beta co-operative "ContentRoot" "..\content\" // content root binder relative to this script file "BuildOutput" "D:\build_output\" // put build cache and log files on different drive for amend performance "Depots" { // file mapping instructions for each depot are in divide script files "1001" "depot_build_1001.vdf" "1002" "depot_build_1002.vdf" } }

This app build script references two depot build script files that specify all file mappings and file properties. The post-obit instructions are bachelor in a depot build script ( and besides if the section is included straight into the app build script).

• DepotID - The DepotID for this department
  
• ContentRoot - Lets you optionally override the ContentRoot folder from the app build script on a per depot ground
  
• FileMapping - This maps a single file or a set of files from the local content root into your depot. There tin can exist multiple file mappings that add files to the depot. The LocalPath parameter is a relative path to the content root folder and may contain wildcards like '?' or '*'. It will also employ to matching files in subfolders if Recursive is enabled. The DepotPath parameter specifies where the selected files should appear in the depot (apply just '.' for no special mapping)
  
• FileExclusion - volition excluded mapped files again and can as well comprise wildcards like '?' or '*'
  
• InstallScript - will mark a file as install scripts and volition sign the file during the build process. The Steam client knows to run them for whatsoever awarding which mounts this depot.
  
• FileProperties - will mark a file with special flags:
  
  • userconfig - This file is modified past the user or game. It cannot exist overridden by an update, and it won't trigger a verification error if it'southward different from the previous version of the file.
    
  • versionedconfig - Similar to userconfig, nevertheless if the file is updated in the depot, it will exist overwritten locally when the user's game updates. Only update the file in the depot when there is a necessary format change or bug prepare.

Instance depot build script depot_build_1002.vdf showing use of all options:

"DepotBuild" { "DepotID" "1002" "ContentRoot" "C:\content\depot1002" // override ContentRoot from app build script "FileMapping" { // all source files and folders in ".\bin" volition exist mapped into folder ".\executables" in depot "LocalPath" "bin\*" "DepotPath" "executables\" "Recursive" "i" // include all subfolders } "FileMapping" { // override sound files in \\audio with High german versions "LocalPath" "localization\german\sound\*" "DepotPath" "audio\" } "FileMapping" { // copy install script for german version into depot root folder "LocalPath" "localization\high german\german_installscript.vdf" "DepotPath" "." } "FileExclusion" "bin\server.exe" // exclude this file "FileExclusion" "*.pdb" // exclude all .PDB files everywhere "FileExclusion" "bin\tools*" // exclude all files under bin\tools\ "InstallScript" "localization\german language\german_installscript.vdf" "FileProperties" { "LocalPath" "bin\setup.cfg" "Attributes" "userconfig" // this file volition exist modified during runtime } }

NOTE: You tin name these scripts what ever yous desire, merely we use the names app_build_<AppID> and depot_build_<DepotID> for consistency. If yous know that yous'll exist building apps on this car, information technology might be a good idea to create sub-directories in your scripts directory for each application, to assist organize each application's build scripts.

Managing Updates

Afterwards your app releases to customers, your customers volition exist receiving the build marked equally the Default build. When uploading a new build it's always a skilful idea to exam it before shipping it to your customers, for more information on how to successfully do this meet Testing On Steam.

Debugging Build Issues

If your build wasn't successful, you should look in your output directory for mistake information, not the panel where the build script was run. About fault information tin can be found in the *.log files.
You tin use these Steam client commands and customer-side files to debug issues:

• "app_status [appid]" - Shows the current state of the app on this client.
  
• "app_info_print [appid]" - Shows the current Steamworks configuration for this game (depots, launch options, etc.).
  
• "app_config_print [appid]" - Shows the current user configuration for this game (current linguistic communication, install directory, etc.).
  
• file "logs\content_log.txt" - Lists all logged SteamPipe operations and errors.
  
• file "steamapps\appmanifest_[appid].acf" - Shows the current install land of this app (KeyValues).

Edifice Efficient Depots for SteamPipe

The old Steam content system would patch updates on a file level, which meant that if a unmarried byte in a file changed, the entire new file would exist downloaded by all users. This was peculiarly inefficient if the game used pack files, which are collections of game content files in a single large file. Pack files can easily exceed 1 GB, so updates often led to unnecessarily large downloads. A common way to avoid these large downloads was to add new pack files that overrode content of already shipped pack files. That worked for updates, but information technology hurt new users long-term, since they concluded up downloading unused, already-patched content.

The new content system fixes this problem past splitting each file into roughly ane-MB chunks. Each chunk is then compressed and encrypted before being distributed by the Steam content system. If the game content has large redundant parts, these chunks are reused and the user only has to download each repeated clamper in one case. However, the real strength of this system is building efficient update patches. While the organisation is building a patch, the new content is scanned for already known chunks. If it finds them, it reuses them. This means if yous change or inject a few bytes in a large file, the user only has to download the changes.

This works well in about cases, but there are still a few pitfalls that need to be avoided when designing the content layout of a game. You may not desire to compress or encrypt your game data. This is already done for in-flight downloads and retail discs by the Steam content system. If y'all practise it also, it tin can reduce the effectiveness of delta patching. Compression and encryption are only advised if each individual asset within a package file is separately compressed and/or encrypted. Otherwise, a change to one asset will always crave downloading several other potentially unchanged assets.

If you package multiple assets in a single pack file, brand sure that with each re-packaging, no unnecessary changes are fabricated. Ane problematic practise is including the total name of the original source files on deejay, because the names may modify, depending on the build auto. Some other bad pattern is including build time stamps for each file. If possible, always add new content to the end of your pack files and keep the order of existing files. Also, keep your pack file's metadata (offset and sizes to individual assets) in one place and don't intersperse information technology with the asset data. Use a binary difference tool like BeyondCompare to wait at 2 builds of your pack files to make sure that hundreds of unwanted changes don't prove upwardly.

If you follow these rules you will minimize patch sizes and only new content volition need to exist downloaded. Your customers volition thanks for that and you will be able to increase the quality of your product by shipping more updates.

If you suspect that your game packaging is not interacting well with the SteamPipe update process, please contact your Valve representative and we can expect into enabling avant-garde features to help with this.

Building Retail Install Discs

To build retail install disc for SteamPipe games, yous must commencement setup a build project file.
In this case, the SKU file is called "sku_goldmaster.txt":

"sku" { "proper name" "Exam Game Installer" "appid" "202930" "disk_size_mb" "640" "included_depots" { "one" "202931" "2" "202932" } }

Some tips to keep in mind:

• Create a new folder where the retail disc images volition exist written to, e.g., "D:\retail_disks". Only depots in the included_depots sections are added; there is no exclude section anymore.
  
• You tin can use Steam.exe (with the -dev and -console command-line parameters) or steamcmd.exe to build installer images. In both cases, use the "build_installer" command.
  
• Log on with a Steam account that owns the game and all depots yous want to put on the retail disc. Otherwise, the account doesn't demand special rights, and so anyone can build installer discs.
  
• If you use Steam.exe, terminate all other downloads.
  
• Go to the panel page and run the build_installer command:

  build_installer sku_goldmaster.txt "D:\retail_disks"

  The build can take a while since all depots are re-downloaded the first fourth dimension.
  
• If you're building a GM using a local content server, run:
  @localcontentserver "webserver"
build_installer sku_goldmaster.txt "D:\retail_disks" local
  The spew refers to 'Fill-in' since 'Retail install Deejay' and local game backups are basically the same.
  
• One time you see "Backup finished for AppID...", the install disk images are ready. You can find more details about the backup build in logs\backup_log.txt.
  
• In that location are new folders (Disk_1, Disk_2, and and then on) in "D:\retail_disks", each not bigger than 640 MB, as specified with "disk_size_mb". Each deejay binder contains a "sku.sis" file and a .csd and .csm for each depot. Bigger depots span across multiple disks. All retail install disk content is always encrypted (different local game backup files). Copy the SDK GM setup files (setup.exe, setup.ini, etc.) into the binder of your first deejay and the retail disc installer is complete.
  
• When creating a GM for macOS be sure to open up the goldmaster/disk_assets/SteamRetailInstaller.dmg epitome on a Mac. Then have the app that is in there and re-create it to the root of your media. Y'all will probably want to change the name of the install app, brand the icon and decorate the window to merely testify the installer.
  
• When creating a multi-disc GM for macOS, be sure the volume proper name for each disc matches. The book name becomes part of the mount path, and if the names don't lucifer the installer won't be able to detect the next disc.

Optionally building a retail installer from a beta branch

The process above will create a retail installer based on the default branch. If you need to create an installer based on a beta branch, you must first create a beta branch named "baseline". Then use the following command to build from the baseline branch:

build_installer <project file> <target folder> <beta key> <beta pwd> steamcmd ex: build_installer sku_goldmaster.txt "D:\retail_disks" baseline superSecret script ex: steamcmd.exe +login user_name password +build_installer "..\Build\GameDataSku.txt" c:\destination beta_key beta_password +exit

Installing DLC from a retail installer

In some circumstances, you may wish to create a retail installer that includes your DLC packages. In such cases, the procedure to create the installer requires only a few changes.
In "sku_goldmaster.txt", include the DLC AppIDs nether the "included_depots" section. Once you have run the "build_installer" process, find the generated sku.sis file for the installer and open it with a text editor.
Add the DLC AppID in the "apps" section. For example, if I had a game with AppID m and DLC AppID 1010, I would adjust the "apps" section as follows:

"apps" { "0" "1000" "1" "1010" }

This volition ensure that Steam checks for ownership of the DLC and prompt the user for a central if the DLC is not owned by the business relationship that they are logging into on Steam.

Building a retail installer for multiple App IDs on a unmarried disc/install packet

To build a GM containing multiple Steam Pipage apps. Build each app installer one past one just point them all to the same output folder. Each build will merge itself with the already existing install image.

Customizing a Retail install disk

See Customizing a gilt master for more details on customizing your retail install deejay.

Preloading Games before Release

By default, all content is ever encrypted, on all retail discs and on all content servers. Switching a game to preload mode ways owners can download the content, but it stays encrypted on the users' disk and tin't be played. Once the game becomes officially released, Steam will decrypt the preloaded content and the user tin can play the game.

Switching a game to preload manner is recommended in these cases:

• Shipping retail discs with product keys before the game is actually bachelor (0-day piracy).
  
• Games that run a pre-purchase and are larger than 20GBs in size.

Delight submit a ticket to Steam Publishing if you believe your game requires preloading.

Building DLC

DLC is congenital as a depot of the base game. Run across the Downloadable Content (DLC) documentation for more than data.

Troubleshooting SteamPipe

"Login Failure: Account Login Denied Failed" when logging in via steamcmd

Cause: Probably SteamGuard is preventing login. Resolution:

• Check the email associated with the account you are trying to log on with and look for an email from Steam Support. Copy the code from that email.
  
• Run the post-obit steamcmd: set_steam_guard_code <code>
  
• Re-Attempt login from steamcmd: Steam>login <buildaccount> <password>

General Troubleshooting for Download Problems

• Restart calculator, modem, router, etc.
  
• Verify firewall settings. The new organisation requires port 80 (HTTP) and all other Steam ports, listed here.
  
• Temporarily disable local Anti-Virus or Spam-Blocker programs.
  
• Cheque the Steam download region nether Settings->Downloads. It should match your location.
  
• Cease the download, uninstall, and reinstall the game (articulate manifest caches).
  
• Exit Steam, delete the 2 folders appcache and depotcache in your Steam install folder.
  
• Endeavour to set up your Steam download region to some other location far away. This might piece of work if a content server most yous is serving bad data.

My Mac and/or Linux Builds aren't installing any files. Why?

If you're testing via Steam the installation of your game or application across multiple platforms, yous may run into a situation where the build deploys on Windows but doesn't deploy any files on Mac or Linux despite your SteamPipe process beingness setup to upload Mac and/or Linux depots. There is a step that is easily missed which involves calculation your alternating Depots to the Bundle existence deployed. Y'all can check what depots are included in a packet via the following steps:

1. Navigate to your App Admin folio
   
2. From the View Associated Items section, click All Associated Packages, DLC, Demos and Tools.
   
3. Click on the title of the Bundle you're attempting to download
   
4. Review the Depots Included section
   
5. Use the Add/Remove Depots to ensure the right set of Depots are assigned to the Bundle

There are a number of word threads nearly this that may as well aid:

• Empty folder after installing the game
  
• Unity Builds for PC/Mac/Linux
  
• Preparing Content for Mac Packaging

Running steamcmd.exe results in the following error: "SteamUpdater: Error: Steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connectedness and try once more."

Resolution: Go to Internet Options->Connections->Lan Settings and check Automatically observe settings.

Running the app build results in the following error: "Mistake! Failed 'DepotBuild for scriptname.vdf' - status = 6."

Possible Causes:

• Business relationship does non have permissions for the app.
  
  • Check that the app ID is correct in the app_build.vdf.
    
  • Check that the build account has proper permissions to the app ID.
    
• Steamcmd cannot detect the depot contents.
  
  • Check that the "contentroot" value in the app_build script is a valid path relative to the location of the script file.
    
  • Check that the "LocalPath" value in the depot_build script is a valid path relative to the path in the app_build script. Check that the path contains actual content.
    

Running the app build results in the following fault: "ERROR! Failed to get application info for app NNNNN (check login and subscription)"

This ways that Steam can't think information about the app, either considering information technology doesn't exist or the user doesn't have access to the app.

• Check that the NNNNN is the app ID you were assigned for the app.
  
• Check that the app ID is correct in the app_build.vdf.
  
• If information technology is a new app ID, bank check that the Steamworks app admin configuration has been published. New apps should have a Steam Pipe install directory on the config tab, a depot on the depot tab, and all changes published on the publish tab.
  
• If all of that looks correct, brand sure that your account owns the app ID.

"An error occurred while installing [AppName] (Invalid content configuration)" at launch time

Possible Causes:

• No build has been set live on the branch you're trying to install from.
  Resolution: Gear up your build live on a branch by going to https://partner.steamgames.com/apps/builds/<YourGameAppId>, and select that branch in the Steam client (every bit described here).
  
• Invalid game launch options.
  Resolution: Verify the launch options on the Installation tab in the app admin for your game https://partner.steamgames.com/apps/config/<YourGameAppId>.
  
• You don't own the Depot IDs that make up the game.
  Resolution: Brand sure the necessary depots are added to the development subscription (See Editing packages for boosted details).

"Error code 15" at launch time

This is the CEG servers rejecting the request to CEG the exe. Check the release state on the game page. If information technology is not 'playable', you will need to request Steam keys that override the release state.

"The Steam Servers are too decorated to handle your request... Mistake Code (2)" at launch fourth dimension

This is the CEG servers failing to find a matching CEG exe. Double bank check that you have a working CEG executable on the CEG tab of your app admin. Click the 'status' button to make sure that it's propped.

I can't remember what that steamcmd command was or how it worked

Utilise the 'discover' command in steamcmd to search for any steamcmd command. It will do fractional matching on the control proper name and it will listing out the command syntax.

Steam>notice build_installer ConVars: Commands: build_installer : <projection file> <target folder> <beta key> <beta pwd>

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Source: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading

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