Subj : The Disney+ price hike ha
To   : Accession
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Oct 12 2025 11:32:34

  Re: The Disney+ price hike ha
  By: Accession to Nightfox on Sun Oct 12 2025 08:12 am

 >> I just ran one of my Steam games by directly running its .exe (after
 >> clicking Manage > Browse Local Files).

 Ac> With Steam still running, I'm guessing.

 >> It still seems to me like Steam is mainly a mechanism to buy games.. I'm
 >> not sure it does much (if any) obfuscation to prevent you from running them
 >> directly.

 Ac> Can you can shut down Steam (not even running in the background), and
 Ac> still run the game without it re-launching, or requiring Steam (or
 Ac> whatever other launcher/app the game is originally tied to) to be running?

 Ac> I just tried this with Resident Evil 4. Shut down steam, ran "re4.exe",
 Ac> Steam opened, and asked if I would allow Valve to access my computer.. and
 Ac> now Steam is again running in my background.

I just tried exiting Steam and running a Steam game, and Steam started up again (in my case, I tried one of the Jackbox Party Packs).  So it seems Steam does need to be running to play their games.

Nightfox

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