Steam.......It Makes me Steaming Mad!

[Feuer Frei!]

Here you go, read this:

Note that, as noted elsewhere, you don't even NEED Steam running to play it. You can run it from the .exe directly - which, of course, allows for Sh3Commander (et al) usage.

And if you are an absolute performance FANATIC, it's worth pointing out that Steam *does* run when you hit the sh3.exe. However, for purpose of internet connections, it's only needed to be 'online' the first time you run it to validate it. After that, Steam has an option to 'run in offline mode'. Just set that choice. Next time to run sh3.exe, you'll get a quick popup that says "Steam is in offline mode, which means many features like friends and server browser will not work", and it asks if you if you want to go online now, or just keep running it in offline mode. Just hit the 'start in offline mode' button, and you are in Sh3, happy as a clam, no internet connection needed.

THREAD FOUND HERE

One of a few reasons i don't use Steam.
In order to play a game i should be able to just click the exe and run game. No other utils/programs running in background, or at startup, which you then have to disable etc etc.
No thanks.