Steam – Refreshing TF2 item server connection without launching game

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Is there a way to refresh your connection to the tf2 item sever without launching the game?

I bought a few keys a week ago and it says they won't be available to trade until Oct 5th 0700GMT. It is now 1330GMT, and I am still unable to trade the keys.
I've read that one needs to launch the game to refresh the connection to the item server. Is there a way to do this without launching the game?

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While this isn't the ideal solution, it did work; Trading another item will refresh the item server. I traded some steam cards on Scrap.tf and my keys were unlocked.

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I can confirm that creating/editing steam.cfg (in the same directory as the Steam executable) with the following lines works, as long as you've set Steam to remember your password (thanks DarkAnime):

BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable
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If you want to manage this with a command-line parameter, you could create a script to do something like the following (Windows .bat file):

IF "%1"=="offline" (
    IF EXIST steam.cfgx (
        rename steam.cfgx steam.cfg
    )
)
ELSE (
    IF EXIST steam.cfg (
        rename steam.cfg steam.cfgx
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)
start steam.exe

It used to be that you could hit "Cancel" while Steam was starting up and it would allow you to start offline mode from there, but that no longer works.

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Found the solution: In /home/tf2server/hlds/gameserver/orangebox, put a file called steam_appid.txt whose sole contents are

Source: http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/18494

This also fixes « TF2 dedicated LAN server not found in game’s server browser ».

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