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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire
Steam, Games for Windows Live and other similar products are all the same as far as I am concerned. How they are handled doesn't matter in the slightest: you still need to be online for it to work.
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Although Steam prefers to be online.
It's NOT a 100% requirement.
Once a game in the list has done it's first time setup through steam, you can play it while steam is in offline mode.
I use that on occasion when my connection is just too cr@p to load anything.
Requirements for offline play are:
- Steam must be allowed to store user credentials.
(My own laptop, so no problem of anyone else logging in on my stuff)
- Game has to be started while online @least once to set up and check for patches.
- your internet has to be out 100%.
(if steam detects even the slightest hint of a connection it will try to go online)
Also. On the 100mb use.
It's only using 50mb of RAM here. So that's 50% LESS then all of you say.
It is also just 10% of what Firefox is using on my laptop.
(above average amount off add-ons + a lot of pages open in tabs)