Hi im a veteran HL/CS player.
After download the source SDK i decided to check out some tutorials. I used foylemans vid tutorial and tried to recreate almost exactly what he had done in the vid but with Cs:s(just for a simple exersise for myself) after saving/compiling exactly the way it was done in the tutorial i load up Cs:s and hit my console key, i type in 'map my_test' it loads for a few seconds and i am given a message 'steam validation rejected' i am very new to map editing (started about 4 hours ago)
this never used to happen when loading games and playing mp or sp. its fine with me playing on servers but when i try to execute map loading commands in my console (even tried de_dust, de_aztec which are non-custom maps) its driving me nuts!
im kean to get on with creating maps (i have alot of note's/concept art/designs/research on maps i need to get to work on) but i wanna rest easy safe in the knowledge that i can test them too....please help me guys,

This is a known issue after the latest Steam update and they are working on a fix.

Try typing “sv_lan 1” into the games console (without the quotes) and then load your map.

If that doesn’t work, then compile your map using the following Additional game parameters “-dev -console -sw +sv_lan 1” (without the quotes).

Thanks baltic.forever that worked like a charm, hap a multiplayer cvar error or something but i let me load all my maps de_dust, cs_assault and even my_test! thanks i owe you one...

wow baltic, cool!. also another thing, the one i do, (i kno this seems late) but i just hit the "start server" thing in the games menu or wutever it says, then in the list i pick the map. and it seems to load fine. but im sure baltic's way is better.