Steam help?

[Prussian to the Iron]

(posting from phone, excuse spelling errors)
so for whatever reason, the internet and tv went down today for an unknown amount of time. now, Steam wont let me play any game, despite having then registered whilst online. i tried being in offline mode, but then it just closit keeps trying to update as well, despite lack of internet and no need for updates in the first place.

so how do i work around this? i just wanna finish my E:TW campaign already, and i have no intentions of waiting to play it. extremely heavy rain and thunderstorms outside and forecast said itll be the same for a while, so im stuck inside really.

any help is greatly appreciated

[Hooahguy]

Have you tried restarting your computer, then coming straight back in offline mode?

[Veho Nex]

PI you are having the same issues I am. AT&T decided to shut down DSL services and I'm too far away to receive U-Verse, so until they fix it I'm stuck without internet at my place of residence. Here is what I'm going to try when I get home, hope it helps you out.


While Steam is starting up, you can hit "Cancel" and it will allow you to start offline mode from there. (I believe if you uncheck automatic sign-in you won't have to hit Cancel, but I'm not sure if that's still true for the current version). Apparently you may also be able to edit steam.cfg to do this: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=16112412&postcount=8

Edit: I can confirm that creating/editing steam.cfg (in the same directory as the steam executable) with the following lines works:

BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable
ForceOfflineMode=enable

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
)
)
start steam.exe

I found this on another forum and its form march of '11 so it should still work. I have yet to try it though