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**A Very Super Market** · 03-01-2009, 02:38

No, you can't get around using steam without breaking the law. To Gellis

Whats wrong with your steam?

**gellis23** · 03-01-2009, 03:13

Like I said. I have two machines.

My lappy is like a fortress, it's got the lot because it is an internet facing machine.

My games machine is totally unprotected. I want greasy speed off it, no problems, no crashes.

I will have to install AV and a firewall, I will have to install a piece of software I neither want nor need (eg Steam). I will register and then take my machine off line (remove AV and FW). I will get nagged by Steam every 5 minutes about updates.

The TW campaign on line will not be very big. I think this is a bad move. It is hacking of fans.

My lappy will just about play the demo, I will have to think about the full game.

Regards

**A Very Super Market** · 03-01-2009, 03:18

Steam won't nag you if there are no updates, but if don't want it to update at all, just set it to offline mode first. Then you can get rid of AV and FW, and just play as usual.

**pevergreen** · 03-01-2009, 03:21

What you can do is install etw on the laptop, then copy the steam folder over.

Put steam in offline mode and bam!

It won't patch, but you can simply patch on the laptop then re copy over. It is legal, and it should work, no probs.

**quadalpha** · 03-01-2009, 03:46

I'm having a problem where my password gets me into the Steam application but not the Steam webpage. Anyone else run into this?

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 03-01-2009, 03:55

Question - can I have ETW install do a different folder than the steamapps one? I had really taken a liking to having a "Total War" folder with all the TW games in one spot. Plus, it'd be easier to get to for modding...

**R'as al Ghul** · 03-01-2009, 16:00

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Question - can I have ETW install do a different folder than the steamapps one? I had really taken a liking to having a "Total War" folder with all the TW games in one spot. Plus, it'd be easier to get to for modding...

No, you can only do that if you buy the real CD version. You would then import the game to steam from its location.
You can move the whole steam folder to another drive/ install steam on another drive if you
don't have enough space on C:/.