I'm old school, and never dealt with Steam. Not real thrilled with it but figured I would give it a try. Anyway I have it set up for offline, but everytime I turn on the computer I get asked to log on, or stay offline. Anyway to stop this? Or do I need to uninstall Steam and Civ 5? Which I may end up doing soon, disappointed but figured I would try for 2 weeks just cause I owe it to Sid...but I digress
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ZimbuTheMonkey
King
It shouldn't ask you every time.
And you don't seem like a person who is into Steam, so you should probably go into settings and disable this option in the interface tab: "Run Steam when Windows starts".
And you don't seem like a person who is into Steam, so you should probably go into settings and disable this option in the interface tab: "Run Steam when Windows starts".
RD-BH
Human
Not to make you paranoid ...
... Even in offline mode, as soon as steam starts, my harddrive gets indexed.
... ... [also, had security warning of a recursive search of registry]
... If I ever go to online mode,
... ... steam will know everything I've installed on my computer.
... I just don't recall giving them permission to do that.
Civ ON 8)
... Even in offline mode, as soon as steam starts, my harddrive gets indexed.
... ... [also, had security warning of a recursive search of registry]
... If I ever go to online mode,
... ... steam will know everything I've installed on my computer.
... I just don't recall giving them permission to do that.
Civ ON 8)
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ZimbuTheMonkey
King
No, Steam has to be installed.
There are ways to run Steam apps independently, but you will be entering the realm of piracy. Plus it's pointless if you bought and paid for the game as lots of community features will be unusable.
There are ways to run Steam apps independently, but you will be entering the realm of piracy. Plus it's pointless if you bought and paid for the game as lots of community features will be unusable.
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There is a dim menu bar in the top left of the Steam client screen. Under "Steam" there is a settings menu selection. Unless I am playing a steam game, steam is not running. Even if it is running, the client at idle takes up maybe 30k of your ram and no cpu cycles unless it is updating itself. Right click on the steam icon in your system tray and select exit and it goes away.
Steam is fairly benign and usually well behaved. And Steam can update your video drivers for you too! Look under the same "steam" menu selection mentioned above.
Steam is fairly benign and usually well behaved. And Steam can update your video drivers for you too! Look under the same "steam" menu selection mentioned above.
RD-BH
Human
While in offline mode, this message appears
... You must exit 'Sid Meier's Civilization V' before exiting Steam
.RD-BH
Human
I was merely pointing out
... steam must be running in background
... (even in 'offline' mode)
... you cannot 'exit' steam when playing Civ V
On other steam games
... you can 'exit' steam
... (removing steam from systray/background tasks)
... after launching the game
My own problem is
... whenever I launch steam
... it triggers the windows search indexer
... (thereby indexing the harddrive, cpu intensive)
... periodically the registry is also searched
I would like to disable ALL system reporting done by and/or on behalf of Steam/Valve.
I have disabled windows search indexer to prevent cpu being consumed.
Re: registry
I originally thought steam was checking current state of FW/AV.
I cannot say with certainty what program is searching the registry
... only that it is cpu intensive
... poorly coded
... occassionaly occurs at steam launch
Re: chat bot
It would be
... a sad world
... if everyone
... thought and reasoned
... in the exact same pattern.
Embrace variety 8)
... steam must be running in background
... (even in 'offline' mode)
... you cannot 'exit' steam when playing Civ V
On other steam games
... you can 'exit' steam
... (removing steam from systray/background tasks)
... after launching the game
My own problem is
... whenever I launch steam
... it triggers the windows search indexer
... (thereby indexing the harddrive, cpu intensive)
... periodically the registry is also searched
I would like to disable ALL system reporting done by and/or on behalf of Steam/Valve.
I have disabled windows search indexer to prevent cpu being consumed.
Re: registry
I originally thought steam was checking current state of FW/AV.
I cannot say with certainty what program is searching the registry
... only that it is cpu intensive
... poorly coded
... occassionaly occurs at steam launch
Re: chat bot
It would be
... a sad world
... if everyone
... thought and reasoned
... in the exact same pattern.
Embrace variety 8)
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plustaticman
Scout
I'm kind of at the point that if I can't figure out how to get rid of Steam I'm going to return the game.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Weird, never heard of that happening.
O_o
No, they won't. The only stuff Steam tracks are Steam and Steam's own performance. The yearly hardware survey is entirely optional, and they only added in (also optional) software survey this year.
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