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Help, I'm deployed and can't run Steam in offline mode.
LordArgoth
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I recently deployed to somewhere that I can't connect my laptop to the internet. I didn't know that to run steam offline you had to set that up online first. I'm trying to find a workaround to no success. Running the game's exe directly doesn't work. The only other solution I could find online was to make a cfg file named steam.cfg and put
BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable ForceOfflineMode=enable
in it, and then place that file in the same location as your steam .exe. I didn't know how to create a cfg file, so I copied a pre-existing one and used notepad to edit the content to what I have above (just typing .cfg after the file name did not work, it still remained a text file). Needless to say, it did not work. My two theories about why it failed are:
1) That line of command or whatever is just wrong. Has anyone else had this problem and fixed it similarily?
2) Creating the cfg like that was wrong/having it opened by notepad by default is messing it up. In which case I don't know what the default program or whatever is.
Has anyone had/solved this problem? If so, please help.
BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable ForceOfflineMode=enable
in it, and then place that file in the same location as your steam .exe. I didn't know how to create a cfg file, so I copied a pre-existing one and used notepad to edit the content to what I have above (just typing .cfg after the file name did not work, it still remained a text file). Needless to say, it did not work. My two theories about why it failed are:
1) That line of command or whatever is just wrong. Has anyone else had this problem and fixed it similarily?
2) Creating the cfg like that was wrong/having it opened by notepad by default is messing it up. In which case I don't know what the default program or whatever is.
Has anyone had/solved this problem? If so, please help.
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Do the following: Go to folder options
Windows XP: My Computer-> Tools -> Folder Options
Windows Vista/7: type in folder options in the box above the start button OR open my computer and click organize should be under there.
Click View
Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types. Apply Ok.
Now you should be able to rename the file from a .cfg.txt to just .cfg now.