Steam is having trouble.......

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by Pieter Oberholzer

I have bought and played all the games in the IL2 Sturmovik series of Combat Flight Simulators. The latest (Cliffs of Dover) were not available in South Africa, so I bought it whilst on holiday in Germany. It was very expensive at 49,99 Euros, and you had to register in a new disastrous new platform called 'Steam' to load it. This platform requires a lot of internet traffic which makes it difficult with my slow rural connection in SA. I first tried to test the game in Germany, but my hosts PC were too slow. On returning to SA on Tuesday I tried to install it, but the Steam platform would not let me. It said I was still logged in in Germany. I wrote to Steam Support, but received no reply or solution other than an automated response. My German host tried to delete the Steam software and game from his PC, but it resisted his efforts. All I want is to load and play my game that I bought. They must stop blocking my account and enable me. I think in an effort to combat piracy, that they have started to handicap their loyal clients in such a way as to commit piracy of a sort on them. As a loyal client I expect service! Please help if you can.

It kind of sounds like your Steam account is set to (auto-run and) auto-login on your friends computer... Maybe have him just turn off his computer for a few hours and you can install Steam while his computer is turned off (because it can't possibly be logged on while turned off).

You will probably have to have access to the email you used to register steam as it will likely want to validate your computer as a new computer for that account.

[Mad G]

Is there a way to play CLOD without Steam? The last few days a barely can connect to my account and fly. I´m a offliner. Thanks,

[Troll2k]

You can set steam to offline.

[Deacon352nd]

How do you set Steam to offline and then turn it back to online when you wish?