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HangFire · **Re: Offline 1.6 already released ??? -** 10-04-2004

I tried this, and couldn't get it to work. This is seriously frusterating.

Yesterday at the LAN party I'm at we tried to play CS 1.6 (none of us had played it yet due to the Steam-only thing). Only one of us has a decent connection so he had gotten Steam, then updated it and CS through Steam. When he took his comp over to my house for the LAN, we copied his Steam folder to everyone else's comps. We assumed that it wouldn't need to connect to the net, and we should be able to just jump right in and play with no hassles.

Unfortunately Steam never works the way it should. The guy who had gotten Steam, first he couldn't run it. He could get in fine, but when he tried to play a game through Steam, any game, it always said something to the effect of "This game cannot be run off-line". For everybody else it was also screwed up. Steam could be ran and put into memory, but all you could be with the Steam icon in the taskbar is either "Exit" or "Exit and logout". No games menu.

After 15 minutes of failed attempts and much cursing everyone but I deleted Steam. I kept it, hoping I could post on a forum and get some help from people. So what did we do wrong here? Does Steam need to throw some droppings into the registry to work?

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HangFire Best served chilled Status: Offline Posts: 1,005 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Saskabush, Canuckada	Re: Offline 1.6 already released ??? - 10-04-2004 I tried this, and couldn't get it to work. This is seriously frusterating. Yesterday at the LAN party I'm at we tried to play CS 1.6 (none of us had played it yet due to the Steam-only thing). Only one of us has a decent connection so he had gotten Steam, then updated it and CS through Steam. When he took his comp over to my house for the LAN, we copied his Steam folder to everyone else's comps. We assumed that it wouldn't need to connect to the net, and we should be able to just jump right in and play with no hassles. Unfortunately Steam never works the way it should. The guy who had gotten Steam, first he couldn't run it. He could get in fine, but when he tried to play a game through Steam, any game, it always said something to the effect of "This game cannot be run off-line". For everybody else it was also screwed up. Steam could be ran and put into memory, but all you could be with the Steam icon in the taskbar is either "Exit" or "Exit and logout". No games menu. After 15 minutes of failed attempts and much cursing everyone but I deleted Steam. I kept it, hoping I could post on a forum and get some help from people. So what did we do wrong here? Does Steam need to throw some droppings into the registry to work?