#3982939 - 07/18/14 09:35 PM
Re: Is this even legal?
[Re: GogKbob]
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Steam off-line is how my three kids play one version of Terraria in multiplayer together. I hate update. God knows TF2 got updated all the time with those annoying hats.
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#3982944 - 07/18/14 09:45 PM
Re: Is this even legal?
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you can disable auto updates in steam for any games/programs listed in your steam account.
This only works for awhile. A lot of the time a Steam "platform update" will reset your don't update settings. Try going into steam, then select "Go Offline" and see if it will allow you to play the game as is. Being online with an update pending is probably keeping you from playing it. If you get it running you might also select in the game's options to only update game manually not auto so it won't try to install an update for you. This won't work either. Once a new update is discovered, it will not let him play his title…I'm afraid he's screwed. I've been in the same situation…I just wanted to play Shogun 2 for a few and it force a 20 gig update on me even though I had previously told it not to do updates and had it in offline mode before it forced me to go online.
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#3983179 - 07/19/14 06:11 PM
Re: Is this even legal?
[Re: GogKbob]
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I don't think he can even just reinstall it from the Disk. Steam will automagically look for updates. It may not even install in offline mode.
If you right click on the game in steam and go to properties you can set the game to not get updates.
It is possible to make a back up of a steam game install. If you know someone local who has the sim you could ask them to make a backup disk and send them to you.
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#3983250 - 07/19/14 09:43 PM
Re: Is this even legal?
[Re: Force10]
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Sometimes the latest "tech" isn't better. Just ask anyone that has IL-2 on Steam and wants to run DBW and the awesome Superpaks. They require the version to be 4.10 and now steam automatically updates to the latest TD version 4.12…no way around it.
Removing users options…especially where flight sims are concerned…is crap. You should be able to pick what patch level you want to run…patches sometimes break things. Sure you might have issues running multiplayer…but there is more to life than multiplayer for a lot of us. Gotta agree with that. Sure wish they went back to DVD's. I'd be playing a lot more games. I don't do STEAM.
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#3983862 - 07/21/14 01:34 PM
Re: Is this even legal?
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Digital delivery is the present. I would say the future, but only if this was 10 years ago.
Most games would now require 2 DVDs to install, some would take 5 or more. The expected usage of Bluray for PC games never happened, likely because Sony wanted far too much and even today BDs aren't a standard in new PCs.
So, blame the rise of digital on the failure of Bluray, which had pretty good CP in it. If you personally don't own a BD for your PC because you thought "DVDs are good enough," well you were wrong, and that's the reason why they are now digital.
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#3984119 - 07/21/14 09:21 PM
Re: Is this even legal?
[Re: GogKbob]
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I guess my question is, how does anyone survive on 250MB a day?
I'm banging on my 180GB limit every month.
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