An offline strategy game that normally within about max. 20 min would be installed -. I am now about 3 hours in front of my monitor and Steam throw me out again - am immeasurably mad ... the game does not buy wg. STEAM. Generally: Why offline games ONLINE forced ???? Grrrr. Why? Fallout 3 Mass Effect. Empire: Total War. Died for me. I go play Pirates. On my C64. Since I come ran at any time. Empire Total War may well be great, but I habs not yet played a second after 3 hours. Update, 18:03: Hab's to uninstall and reinstall (about 30min with Steam) now up and running. On my machine (dual core 3GHz, XP, 4GigRam, Gefo9800gtx), I have everything to Max only antialiasing off. and it runs smooth as silk in 1680x1050, because I can not complain. Cause of the disastrous initial installation was with me, that I have tried it on the botched Steam Patch Tuesday. I have it even now, that I temporarily out fly through Steam. I do not want Steam, I do not need online Jamba chat community during an offline strategy game, I just want to play ETW. There is probably also a Steam offline mode, but I have to completely cut my Inet connection, because he re else Steam-forced online goes, balderdash. So - still, I 1 star wg. Steam.