"Aye bruv i'll be playing alone/singeplayer for a while today, let's do it tomorrow" "Aye bruv i'm chilling rn, we'll play together some other time, aight?" "Aye im not down for that rn, hit me up later this day/tomorrow tho" StandUp for urself bruh, it's a "minor" issue but still... boundaries! have a good one
"Haha sorry not today bro. I gotta finish that stuff for that thing" *changes status to "appear offline"* All jokes aside. You shouldn't feel bad for saying no, you should feel bad when you start lying to your friends. Honesty is the best policy.
Omfg omfg, I just bought new game, am off for 1 week and wanted to play it. Internet is down for week. Thank you so much, timestamp 2:25 worked thank you.
fyi for others - if this is for the purpose of not being online to friends when you login to steam: you can go to Friends & Chat in the bottom right corner of Steam, open it, click on the little gear icon in the top right corner of the friends list, & under the Friends List sub-section of the settings window, turn off "Sign in to friends when client starts". i.e. this lets you keep steam online for updating games etc. & also means that you don't get the annoying prompt that you get nowadays that reminds you that you are offline when you open steam.
Dude, I fucking love you! My ISP had an outage and all forums were telling I had to be online first which was bullshit. I knew there had to be a way around it. Thank you!!
I did some research and it seems like you don't need to sign in to validate ownership of games. That was a bug that I believe is now worked out and older games did require that but it seems like that is no longer the case. So as long as you sign in once and open the game online once then you could stay offline indefinitely.
@@Anti-Yeet Agreed, this is going to have to get fixed since it's advertised and is a portable device and because of that people are going to be places where there's no internet. I hope this is correct because if not then Valve would have dropped the ball big time
Scragglewaggle 1 year ago (edited) I did some research and it seems like you don't need to sign in to validate ownership of games. That was a bug that I believe is now worked out and older games did require that but it seems like that is no longer the case. So as long as you sign in once and open the game online once then you could stay offline indefinitely.
Is it still possible? I got locked out after trying to start in "offline 1". I chose start offline (finally the possibility appeared) then anotherer connection followed that automatically tried to start in online mode. There was no way to start it without internet connection. The failure immediately signed me off. So I have to wait playing until our router gets fixed (whenever this will be...).
Unfortunately this does not work as it still asks to retry connection and not give any options to start in offline mode. I have a peplink blocker to prevent steam from going online. But I could go offline as it asked if I wanted to do that. But now all it asks is to retry the connection.
is there some line that we can add in the settings files that will make us start in invisible status instead of offline mode? I did fresh install of windows 10 and I want to appear invisible to my friends after installing steam without going online at first 🤔
thanks, i just wanted to make sure i could go offline and run a mod for dark souls 3 without getting my account banned. it was recommended to play tht mod offline or risk getting your account banned.
Thank you! Internet is down rn due to a storm and this helped me get on. Really stupid design of steam imo, that you have to literally edit a config text file in this situation. I get that you're usually going to be online in steam but jeez. Anyway, thanks!
This isn't working even when I edit the vdf I no longer get the option to start offline only the error connecting message with retry or cancel. Days ago I would get the option to go offline after clicking login not anymore
I need help, i forgot to off my wifi then i click my steam. It started an update but i dont have a good net connection so i only like to play offline mode and now i cannot open steam, only retry connection..
Followed the steps, my PC was working fine last night without internet to play steam, then today I try boot offline mod and it just says connecting to my account, I don't even have an internet connection to begin with, just turn my PC on today for some games and nope haha
can't get past the past word part, I added the wantofflinemode set to 1. restarted steam i select offline, I type in my password and it hang and still want to go online..... problem is my power went out then followed by Comcast so yeah off line when I needed it.
I used to able open steam in offline mode without connect to online, but now i can't do it. Every time i open steam without connection, after i click "start steam in offline mode", steam just stuck with message "connecting steam account xxxx". Can you figure it out what's wrong with my steam?, I also done your method to setting loginuser in config section
bro i borrow a person steam account to play a game and i download that game but now he gave changed his steam account email and i can't open that game can i play that game again without logging into that account..
@@tomsko863 If you find a post here please XD I payed for the games they should work whenever I want play them, even if my internet or steam services are down.
@@maffiasvante I have a game that doesn't need steam and I got it gifted to me on steam as well. The one on Steam always works worse. Steam is and always has been buggy, slow and a resource hog. Why does it always needs to be on? Because it is a DRM software, and nothing else.
Unfortunately, it works only for a while. After a PC restart or a certain amount of time, the crapload of BS Steam ppl have done makes it automatically go online...
Here I was thinking I can use Steam… Place yourself into a ship where you work for up to 6 months without internet and you quickly realize steam is sh*t. Buying the games physically it is.
Yeah you can right click a game then go properties then updates and change one of the settings to enable downloads playing that game. Theres also a global setting in the settings page somewhere.
Nope. I have no internet, turn off wifi adapter on laptop and will it tries to force online mode. Even when the prompt for offline mode comes up, once I click it - back to online login screen.
are there more options for loginusers.vdf? I recently found : "SkipOfflineModeWarning" "1" this would help out with the question really going offline...
So if I don’t have an internet connection at all I can’t use anything period? You have to have internet to be able to play without internet? Good thing I have a PlayStation as well 😂 this is trash.
So you have to be online first in order to use things offline. That makes complete sense.
you can just log in and click the offline mode
@@erdenejargalbathishig812 I think you're missing the point... what if you have no internet connection
@@femshep4018 this is why I clicked on this video..... Wtf man lame
@@johnhancock1748 u can use offline mode before openning steam bruh
@@femshep4018 go offline mode then
when your friend keep bugging you to play with them and you don't want to feel bad for saying no
"Aye bruv i'll be playing alone/singeplayer for a while today, let's do it tomorrow"
"Aye bruv i'm chilling rn, we'll play together some other time, aight?"
"Aye im not down for that rn, hit me up later this day/tomorrow tho"
StandUp for urself bruh, it's a "minor" issue but still... boundaries!
have a good one
"Haha sorry not today bro. I gotta finish that stuff for that thing"
*changes status to "appear offline"*
All jokes aside. You shouldn't feel bad for saying no, you should feel bad when you start lying to your friends. Honesty is the best policy.
I have such a shitty social battery that I'll play with someone for a few times and then not want to talk to anyone for 5 months
the fact that i cant keep steam in offline mode forever and have to relog in is so annoying
Yea its actually retarded...
my bad not phone savy... where do i go
@Teknogod17 kk : )
@Teknogod17 is this actually real? So we really own our games right?
Did you watch the video?
#1 tutorial for introverts
Or if your internet goes out and you still want to play your games
Thanks a bunch, modifying the login file allowed me to switch to offline without internet. The segment starting at 2:50
Omfg omfg, I just bought new game, am off for 1 week and wanted to play it. Internet is down for week. Thank you so much, timestamp 2:25 worked thank you.
"How to Start Steam in Offline mode (Without opening it first)___ Step 1: Open Steam."
Didn't want Steam to update a game due breaking mods. This video saved me, so THANK YOU!!! :D
fyi for others - if this is for the purpose of not being online to friends when you login to steam: you can go to Friends & Chat in the bottom right corner of Steam, open it, click on the little gear icon in the top right corner of the friends list, & under the Friends List sub-section of the settings window, turn off "Sign in to friends when client starts".
i.e. this lets you keep steam online for updating games etc. & also means that you don't get the annoying prompt that you get nowadays that reminds you that you are offline when you open steam.
thanks
Dude, I fucking love you! My ISP had an outage and all forums were telling I had to be online first which was bullshit. I knew there had to be a way around it. Thank you!!
I did some research and it seems like you don't need to sign in to validate ownership of games. That was a bug that I believe is now worked out and older games did require that but it seems like that is no longer the case. So as long as you sign in once and open the game online once then you could stay offline indefinitely.
Man if this real, the new handled game will be a must
@@Anti-Yeet Agreed, this is going to have to get fixed since it's advertised and is a portable device and because of that people are going to be places where there's no internet. I hope this is correct because if not then Valve would have dropped the ball big time
@@firestriker6846 i think its aready fixed, i got offline on steam and changed the time for like 2023 and 1999 and steam was working fine offline.
I hope that's the case once sign in online then plays offline forever
I’m a contractor with the Navy, I have to deploy this year. This is what I was worried about was having to validate ownership of the games.
you're about to get a lot of views on this. steam is down and this is exactly what we needed. thanks.
But I have no current internet and it just keeps on saying there was an error connecting
So you can't be permanently "Offline" after a certain period of time when wanting to launch a game because it has to check for authentication, right?
Thank you bro! This really helped! Really detailed video!
Well, I clicked start in offline mode but it didn't start it simply showed the login window again
I'm pretty sure you can stay logged in in offline mode way longer. Some people say they were still logged in offline 3 months later
I've gone almost 8 months without connecting my laptop to wifi and was able to use Steam offline the entire time with zero issues.
as far as i know it is indefinitely, you can be in offline mode as long as you like.
Bro I need help it worked for me it's like 1 week now but now... When I press start in offline mode it will display the log in phase.
noob
Scragglewaggle
1 year ago (edited)
I did some research and it seems like you don't need to sign in to validate ownership of games. That was a bug that I believe is now worked out and older games did require that but it seems like that is no longer the case. So as long as you sign in once and open the game online once then you could stay offline indefinitely.
Can you share how to fix the bug? Thanks!
Is it still possible?
I got locked out after trying to start in "offline 1".
I chose start offline (finally the possibility appeared) then anotherer connection followed that automatically tried to start in online mode.
There was no way to start it without internet connection. The failure immediately signed me off. So I have to wait playing until our router gets fixed (whenever this will be...).
Same. I was playing with zero issue in offline mode untill I made the mistake of trying to connect to a spotty business wifi network. Now I'm stuck.
Unfortunately this does not work as it still asks to retry connection and not give any options to start in offline mode. I have a peplink blocker to prevent steam from going online. But I could go offline as it asked if I wanted to do that. But now all it asks is to retry the connection.
is there some line that we can add in the settings files that will make us start in invisible status instead of offline mode? I did fresh install of windows 10 and I want to appear invisible to my friends after installing steam without going online at first 🤔
thanks, i just wanted to make sure i could go offline and run a mod for dark souls 3 without getting my account banned. it was recommended to play tht mod offline or risk getting your account banned.
It doesnt work in 2021...
If you're trying to log into a second account that wasn't your last logged in account, THE CONFIG METHOD WILL NOT WORK!
Did you also buy a steam account and experienced that?
Thank you! Internet is down rn due to a storm and this helped me get on. Really stupid design of steam imo, that you have to literally edit a config text file in this situation. I get that you're usually going to be online in steam but jeez. Anyway, thanks!
This isn't working even when I edit the vdf I no longer get the option to start offline only the error connecting message with retry or cancel. Days ago I would get the option to go offline after clicking login not anymore
how to start steam in offline mode (without opening it first) - step one: open steam
In my case, disable the Ethernet or wifi adapter it's the solution for login offline
still works! (on Steam Deck, stuck trying to load Steam after update while in Offline Mode)
Important tip for anyone whose wifi is completely out. Restart your computer after changing 0 -> 1
And if you are able to play in offline mode, where Steam saves your password or token, in witch location/file ?
I need help, i forgot to off my wifi then i click my steam. It started an update but i dont have a good net connection so i only like to play offline mode and now i cannot open steam, only retry connection..
Im curious if this works without signing into steam at all! Trying to launch a game like amnesia works but skyrim steam keeps wanting me to sign in.
Informative and no wasted BS. Thanks!
Having to connect to the internet at all is stupid. What if you were just going out bush for a while and wanted to game but had no internet.
My steam account logged out after I was in offline mode for a couple days. It made no sense? Then I had to log back in. I wish it didn't do that.
We can play in offline mode, but how do we save game offline and sync it to steam cloud when we are online?
this would work for me if the next step worked for me. after launching it opens another tab but I remains minimized no matter what I do >.
Do achievement work with this method?
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Followed the steps, my PC was working fine last night without internet to play steam, then today I try boot offline mod and it just says connecting to my account, I don't even have an internet connection to begin with, just turn my PC on today for some games and nope haha
can't get past the past word part, I added the wantofflinemode set to 1. restarted steam i select offline, I type in my password and it hang and still want to go online..... problem is my power went out then followed by Comcast so yeah off line when I needed it.
I used to able open steam in offline mode without connect to online, but now i can't do it. Every time i open steam without connection, after i click "start steam in offline mode", steam just stuck with message "connecting steam account xxxx". Can you figure it out what's wrong with my steam?, I also done your method to setting loginuser in config section
Many thanks for help. 👍
bro i borrow a person steam account to play a game and i download that game but now he gave changed his steam account email and i can't open that game can i play that game again without logging into that account..
idk why but when i do this my steam says looking for updates instead of booting it in offline mode
does this work if u have steam guard on ?
holy hell. just skip to 2:55 folks
Thanks
it doesnt work, so no need to skip
I only have a small cell phone. I can't read the line in the file. What's its exact name?
YOURE GOATED BRO!!!
So can I buy offline activation games from steam?
soooo the servers are actually down in my area for no reason sooo apparently I can't sign in to even be in Offline mode.
What a tradegy]
Its not jsut your Area I'm in Sweden talking with a guy in India and its working for neither of us.
Ahhhhh i seeeee i thought it was steam just not working without internet.. Same thing with me ig
That's why I'm looking for a way to bypass steam altogether so it never needs to come on. All steam is to me is a terrible DRM program
@@tomsko863 If you find a post here please XD I payed for the games they should work whenever I want play them, even if my internet or steam services are down.
@@maffiasvante I have a game that doesn't need steam and I got it gifted to me on steam as well. The one on Steam always works worse. Steam is and always has been buggy, slow and a resource hog. Why does it always needs to be on? Because it is a DRM software, and nothing else.
Is there a way to bypass the online/offline notification
Unfortunately, it works only for a while. After a PC restart or a certain amount of time, the crapload of BS Steam ppl have done makes it automatically go online...
How do you play games that are already installed in offline mode? This is an emergency.
I'm sorry what? So i can only play the games i already paid for offline for 30 days? What kind of sense does that make
how to play offline steam without opening steam because you dont have internet connection to active offline mode in steam.
thanks i have been offline for a few weeks and dont know how to do it
What a long drawn out video to get to the one bit we are looking for 2:50
How long can you be offline?
Still doesn’t work, steam just won’t open
Here I was thinking I can use Steam…
Place yourself into a ship where you work for up to 6 months without internet and you quickly realize steam is sh*t.
Buying the games physically it is.
simply that you cannot do this tricks without having internet connection. am i right??
Can I download a game and in the same time play an offline game from steam at the same time ?
Yeah you can right click a game then go properties then updates and change one of the settings to enable downloads playing that game. Theres also a global setting in the settings page somewhere.
worked first try tysm
Thank u so much ❤
i miss the old steam
all this for pc master race and i can do all of this to not be online in my ps4 when entering
Doesn’t work
Is this your voice??
Does this still works?
Very helpful thank you sir
Turn off your router/disable Wi-Fi. Start steam, it will go into offline mode automatically, power back on your router/Wi-Fi and you're done...
Nope. I have no internet, turn off wifi adapter on laptop and will it tries to force online mode. Even when the prompt for offline mode comes up, once I click it - back to online login screen.
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Thank you very nice!
Do you know of a way to play a game and not have steam startup at all?? It takes up too many resources and is buggy as all hell.
are there more options for loginusers.vdf?
I recently found : "SkipOfflineModeWarning" "1"
this would help out with the question really going offline...
So if I don’t have an internet connection at all I can’t use anything period? You have to have internet to be able to play without internet? Good thing I have a PlayStation as well 😂 this is trash.
My steam say that steam user must be logged in like bruh i already am
Straight to the fucking point. i love it.
Thank you!
i dont have a steam ACOUNT
If you don’t have internet and just log out, you can’t even play any games so don’t log out
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Thank you.
You can do all this by just clicking go to offline mode, why are all these extra steps necessary.
Because when you have no internet it doesn't give you the option to go offline automatically.
thanks
Thank U!
all the games i wanna play require a online connection. i guess f me
If i could double like I would
Well that works great thank you :)
Disable internet connection prior to starting? Not rocket science.
No :(
Thanks
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