Quote Originally Posted by Otto Khan View Post
i clicked play offline. nothing happened. ejected the disk tried again nothing. tried clicking everything that i could and still couldn't play.



you honestly think i'm that damn dumb? i have anger issues, not intelligence issues.


anything more than inserting the game disk and clicking play, is just damned silly.
Putting the disk in to play when you don't have to seems a bit silly to me unless you have a different version of the game than everybody else because to repeat what almost everybody has posted over and over:

You do not need the disk to start the game.

The executable in written to your harddrive. There is a start command on the disk, but other than the first time you loaded the game I can't imagine wasting the time to put the disk in just to use it's start command.

If you do not have a desktop icon then you should be able to start the game from your programs list.

If your settings on your Steam account are correct, you should get a message that your computer cannot connect to Steam and ask you if you want to play in off line mode.

If you get any other message such as you can't play in offline mode then there is another possibility, but you will have to connect to Steam at least once to fix it.

On the account tab of the settings menu on your Steam account there is a check box that
says "Don't save account credentials on this computer"

This is recommended when using a public computer--however if you have this box checked you cannot play off line. The message you get when you try to start the game will only tell you that you are not connected and thus cannot play.

If the game simply will not start then you may have to repair the problem by re-installing the game.

Cheers