Steam Offline mode -clutching at straws..

Fr0dders · 16 May 2012 at 20:14

JTrickle said:
Tether your phone to it?

see above. (or below as it now is)

Sleepery said:
I tried hotspotting from a Galaxy S on hols too, and it didn't work. Like you said, something Steam needs seems to be blocked by most mobile networks.

Raumarik · 16 May 2012 at 20:46

Nate--IRL-- said:
What worked for me was disabling all NICs in windows - this allowed Steam into off-line mode.

Nate

This use to work for me too, Steam would start a heck of a lot faster too!

uv · 16 May 2012 at 23:05

MrLOL said:
see above. (or below as it now is)

Steam works fine for me tethered over a Three 3G connection.

Rroff · 16 May 2012 at 23:09

HeX said:
That's not entirely accurate.

As long as the game you want to play is up to date and has been run at least once it'll work.

Steam client updates won't effect it unless you haven't restarted steam since you applied one. As long as you've run it once it'll start in offline mode.

Uninstalled games, or partially downloaded games won't effect offline mode, you just won't be able to use those particular games.

It is entirely accurate - as I said I'm not sure on partially downloaded games - but any pending update (via steam including paused ones) on any game in your library including steam updates that haven't been applied via a restart will prevent you starting in offline mode without an internet connection.

FishPolice · 17 May 2012 at 00:19

Rroff said:
One thing I did find tho quite a few (tho not all) games will work fine in singleplayer/offline mode if you start steam up and leave it at the error then try and launch the game from its own folder (the application "sees" steam "running" and continues).

I just tried this and was able to at least get Skyrim working

It only works if I use the skse_loader.exe - Shortcut (not that I wouldn't want to use this because some of my mods depend on this) -nothing else works at all. Also tried the exe files in the steamapps\common folder.

Might try disabling my lan controllers next...

[edit] Somewhat off topic: Just had a quick go on WOW via my tethered connection & that works pretty well. Shame I can't be bothered with WOW though

Final8y · 17 May 2012 at 06:13

HeX said:
I can honestly say i've never had a problem with Steam Offline mode.

When going to LANs and what not, the night before i'll fire up steam, make sure i've ran all the games I intend to play the next day, then shutdown.

At the LAN i'll turn on my PC, launch steam, it pops up 'cant connect, do you want to play in offline mode', I press yes, and that's it.

I also have never had a problem with Offline mode.

Dave**** · 17 May 2012 at 07:51

When I had this problem tethering my phone worked fine.

Phone is a rooted xperia x10 though, maybe the fact it is rooted had something to do with it??

FishPolice · 22 May 2012 at 11:55

Just a quick update in case someone comes across this thread whilst googling for an answer to the problem I was having.

I tried loads of things but to no avail. I think the only thing that might have worked was rooting my phone.

I ended up having to cart my pc round to another house to connect it to the net so I could configure it to work in offline mode.

Cold Fusion · 22 May 2012 at 12:07

Rroff said:
It is entirely accurate - as I said I'm not sure on partially downloaded games - but any pending update (via steam including paused ones) on any game in your library including steam updates that haven't been applied via a restart will prevent you starting in offline mode without an internet connection.

I think there is or was a time issue related to offline mode as well

If you had not logged in in online mode for a period of time offline mode will not / would not work unless you log in I've certainly experienced it on my Netbook.