Stop closing topics until you are sure the problem is solved. You created enough problems by making us use steam to play the game so take the beating like a man and accept people are not happy when they can't get on to play a game that is not really made to play online.

Never buying another Bethesda game. This is insane, it's just screwup after screwup.

i think this is just a steam attack.
dont get me wrong i have nothing against a steam attack,anyone fighting back against being herded like cattle is ok in my books.

but when its so easy not to use steam,i really cant see the need for attacking something so easily ignored.

just...dont use steam.


right now they are simply herding people,the troubles really start when they have enough in the shed to start milking them.

Steam should not and not suppose to be required to play the game. It's a single game not a game you have to play on the internet. I understand they use this to protect their game I have no problems with that and using it for updates and patches but beside that nothing sure prevent us from playing it but it does.

1) Use Offline mode and only go online when patches are released. You can stay in Offline mode forever.

2) This is a Steam-specific problem. Here's the Steam forums for Skyrim: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1182 , and here's how to contact Steam support: https://support.steampowered.com/

3) You haven't actually given us anything to go on, making this thread entirely a rant / complaint. This is a troubleshooting and bug reporting forum for SKYRIM, not Steam. We may be able to help with Steam problems IF you give us details.

Offline mode. Play with the original 1.1 patch and bypass Steam. Don't play the game. Or just learn to use Steam and appreciate it.

Four choices there.

I'm in full online mode and Steam is down for me. It literally went "we can't connect, wanna play anyway?". I really fail to see the issue here.

This should concern the maker of Skyrim not only steam. Just went offline with steam and looks like this going to work. This is not a rant but information that not enough information is pass on by Bethesda to show they care but stopping there not going further then that.

theres your problem right there..

you think bethesda care

if you want them to care you`ll need a few things..

1: 51% of the company
2: be the supplier of cheetoh`s to the office
3: be any woman around 20 years old and pretty
4: a time machine,to go back to when they needed to please.

i can help with No3,but the rest your on your own

and when i turn up,they cant complain about the 20 yr old pretty girl turning out to be a 6 foot 3 hairy assed welshman with a face like a bag of broken biscuits,as they did exactly that with the game...lol

What i dont understand ...everyone says...RUN steam in offline mode...Why do I have to RUN anything...we bought a game that clearly Stated.

Steam required to Activate. It did NOT say Steam required to RUN 24/7.

Stats for steam RUNing for 12 hours...on my system...

42 threads in use
I/o Reads= 49,000 +
I/O writes = 1,201,941...Right what the hell did it have to write on my hard drive 1 million times????
Page Faults = 5,796,793
Private MEM= 141 MEG
Virtual MEM = 430 MEG

That is ONE 12 hour Session...multiply that for a YEAR...is your HDD dead yet!!!!

What do you people not understand about this??? This is UN-acceptable The only ReasonI am giving steam use of MY computer is the updates but for a Game that ONLY required Activation?? Not RUN...and in OFFline mode.

Only Bethesda can Fix this...and i really hope they Do.

So much butthurt going on

you think that the activation/constant monitoring is the worst lie told ?

and yes a lot of us do know the stats,thats why we dont allow steam to install on the drive in the firt place.
or if its already there,remove it.
as a drm its about the worst functionality ever created,which means its got its own reasons for slipping its way onto our systems and it aint drm or updating[unless a charge is forthcoming for updates].

relieve the stress,dont use it.

Are you being serious? You are acting like Steam is some giant conspiracy...you can come on out of your metal hole in the side of a cliff now.

Sigh...can people do their homework before they start getting all sensational? A quick Google and confirmation with a Windows low-level programmer shows:

"I/O Writes -- The number of write input/output operations generated by the process, including file, network, and device I/Os. I/O Writes directed to CONSOLE (console input object) handles are not counted."

ANY device that has input or output can cause an I/O write, including your video card. If Steam is online it's probably the network I/O you're seeing -- Steamworks includes P2P technology which uploads files you've downloaded to other users. AFAIK there's no way to see how many times a process has written or read from disk specifically with Task Manager. Process Explorer could probably show you.

Source: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-do-the-Task-Manager-memory-columns-mean

Once again, you CAN have Steam running in Offline Mode and doing absolutely nothing. You can unplug your Internet connection and stay that way for years and years. When Steam is in Offline Mode, all it's there for is to decrypt your games when you need to run them. This is still a hell of a lot better than the old CD-ROM rootkits companies used to use. And let's not forget how horrible Games for Windows Live was on Fallout 3...

What I need to ask is why does it bother you?

You knew what Steam was. You knew how Steam games worked. To say that Steam is destroying your hard drive with cycles, yet you play Skyrim on the same system is utterly hilarious.

You expect a game as big as the TES games to be bug free? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.

Rule #1. Games this big are ALWAYS buggy.

What we need is the kit out so the community patch can start being pushed out. THEN we will be the fixes. XD

Then i will buy 2 or 3 to make up for it , have a nice day.


For the op, Steam forums are that way---->

I can't play either. Ran the TESV exe...no dice. launcher says same thing as it does when I run Steam

Every other Steam game I have works fine

"if you cant say nothing nice dont say anything at all....."

















(Crickets chirping)

Weird. Just tried offline again and now the launcher is working. What I don;t understand is why other Steam games didn't have any problem starting

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