Steam

I need to ask do I need to install the game through steam? and do I need to keep Steam on my desktop on the right hand side?

nope you could have installed via cd but this would have required leaving thew cd in. having steam open doesnt do anything steam gives you all the updates of the game etc without u having to download them

no I mean playing WITHOUT the cd

Playing without the game requires Steam, yes. You need an internet connection to activate but once that's done you can play without the internet.

huh? dont understand

can you still click exit steam will it play without it?

no it runs in the background but doesnt hog any resources

You will need Steam running to play FM.

(I think, can someone confirm?)

yes to play without the dvd you need steam

Playing without the game requires Steam, yes. You need an internet connection to activate but once that's done you can play without the internet.

yes to play without the dvd you need steam

so it HAS to be on the toolbar on the bottom of my screen?

yes but you can stop it from starting up with windows so basicaly it starts whe you play fm

yes but you can stop it from starting up with windows so basicaly it starts whe you play fm

so it's start - run - ????

basicaly you can set it not to start on system boot but as soon as you click the fm icon on the desktop steams opens and then the game

basicaly you can set it not to start on system boot but as soon as you click the fm icon on the desktop steams opens and then the game

so you can load it up when windows does on the desktop on start then if you DO go on steam that's it?

yes but it makes no odds either way both ways load at almost at the same speed

Go into steam settings and untick run at windows start up.

When you launch FM from the FM icon, steam will start and run the game.

No hog, no lag, dead simple.

So, is it right to assume you cannot play your steam downloaded fm2010 if you are not online?

i own the disc, i try to run in offline mode, it tells me i cant because my computer doesnt have steam details stored, which is utter ******** because i activated the game using steam... when i play thru steam , it has to update which so far has taken over half an hour and is still only 49% done... i hate this game now , its totally ruined it for me.

if you tell steam to remember your login details it will work offline providing your in offline mode

Not that Steam will remember your login details! It doesnt for me and it has caused me to not be able to play on FM for an entire 5 hour train journey