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Support / Re: How to Download the Latest Version: 1.1.1
« on: April 07, 2009, 07:25:24 am »
You can play offline games in Steam without a Internet connection, you just have to load up the games you wish to play offline while you're still connected, before enabling offline mode. Then, when you're actually offline, the games will load up fine and will not throw you an error message.
Stupid and roundabout, I know. I think Steam needs to download something to the effect of a validation key or some such, which is retained for games that have been loaded during the current instance of the program and stored when offline mode is enabled, so it can still verify the game data. Why Valve don't have Steam do this while it signs in, I don't know. It'd make offline mode less of a PITA.
Stupid and roundabout, I know. I think Steam needs to download something to the effect of a validation key or some such, which is retained for games that have been loaded during the current instance of the program and stored when offline mode is enabled, so it can still verify the game data. Why Valve don't have Steam do this while it signs in, I don't know. It'd make offline mode less of a PITA.