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PumpAction
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PostPosted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 18:23    Post subject: Steam and illegal steam games
I have steam running right now. Is it safe to start Mafia II Skidrow (patch 1.4) at the same time?
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Ragedoctor




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PostPosted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 18:26    Post subject:
STEAM is not allowed to scan on your hd or scan your memory without a steam game running.
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PumpAction
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PostPosted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 18:31    Post subject:
Yeah, but mafia will load it's cracked steamapi dll and stuff :/ Don't want something to "call home" Sad


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human_steel




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PostPosted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 18:45    Post subject:
You won't have any problems at all. I've played numerous cracked steamworks-related titles with Steam on in the background with zero hassles. As far as I've understood, the skidrow versions run on an enclosed emulator which has nil interaction with any other external application on your computer, let alone Steam.
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PumpAction
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PostPosted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 19:02    Post subject:
Hmm.. downloading GTA Liberty City Stories (16GB holy batterang!) right now and it was at 1-1.5MB/s and then I switched from the Frankfurt Server (I live in f*cking Frankfurt!) to Düsseldorf and the speed increased by ~20-30% and then I switched to the Netherlands server -> 3.6MB/s

The fuck Steam! Laughing


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PostPosted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 19:24    Post subject:
I'm pretty sure you mean Episodes from Liberty City.

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zellar




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PostPosted: Wed, 9th Nov 2011 21:37    Post subject:
Why have the STEAM forums been down so long? They don't want any chatter about recent release of games???


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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Wed, 9th Nov 2011 21:41    Post subject:
They were hacked, that's why.
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PostPosted: Wed, 9th Nov 2011 21:45    Post subject:
Brotip from the pros: Close Steam before playing cracked gaemz by Suxrow. Iknorite?
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Wed, 9th Nov 2011 21:45    Post subject:
Heh, I've never closed Steam whilst playing cracked Steam titles Very Happy That's just how I roll Cool Face
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human_steel




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PostPosted: Wed, 9th Nov 2011 21:48    Post subject:
I too have never closed Steam on Skidrow's releases. Nor on any other Steam-related title.
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PostPosted: Wed, 9th Nov 2011 22:29    Post subject:
PumpAction wrote:
Yeah, but mafia will load it's cracked steamapi dll and stuff :/ Don't want something to "call home" Sad


Since it's loading the cracked steamapi.dll etc. it doesn't use the legit Steam application at all (I think?).


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PostPosted: Wed, 9th Nov 2011 22:35    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
Heh, I've never closed Steam whilst playing cracked Steam titles Very Happy That's just how I roll Cool Face


I actually add them ass a non-steam game Laughing Ingame overlay comes in handy.
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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Feb 2012 15:24    Post subject: Re: Steam and illegal steam games
PumpAction wrote:
I have steam running right now. Is it safe to start Mafia II Skidrow (patch 1.4) at the same time?


You won't have any problem, no worry.
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