gamesfreak64: One game that launches steamwebhelper is: Grim Legends 3 The Dark City
a very nice HOG but it is a little cpu/gpu hungry
my poor system:
i5 750 2,67 quadcore
8 gb ram
GTS 250 1GB
i guess my GPU is the weakest 'link' :D
UPDATE: i tried to stop the steamwebhelper process, the manages flashed and all of a sudden steam.exe showed up aswell, funny thing is there isnt a steam icon available that allows you to login your account...
so basically this games arent real steam free....
Its a Artifex Mundi game , that might explain things. :D
After clicking and clicking i maged to 'shut down' the steam.exe and steamwebhelper and the game is still running.
Very nice game, its has some interaction scenes, after you complete these a short animation follows, very well done game for a HOG, its different then the old HOG games.
MarkoH01: Since I don't own Grim Legends 3 I cannot be sure about this but since so far EVERY Artifex Mundi game was runnable without steam using the steam_appid.txt method, please try the following:
Create an empty text file name it
steam_appid.txt and place it in the game directory. Open the text file and enter the number
458470 into it. Try to run the game now and see if it now starts without steam. On Win7 this method so far worked wit every Artifex Mundi and a few other games.
Regarding your performance problems with LH 2 I would think that the problem would be more your GPU but your CPU. A GTS card is really pretty weekand as you said 1GB VRAM is for some never games not enough. I really don't think that adventures like this are that heavy on the CPU and an i5 should be enough.
Thank you for the reply.
yes my poor GPU is weak and old (2009) its a good thing i cant play fps/3d , otherwise i had to buy a new pc, luckily i like casual games and these have average requirements so i can run all casual games that have been released sofar.
Games made with AGS also run on almost anything that looks like a pc, thats why i own all wadjet eye games and anything that looks like it.
i tried the txt file, so far i dont see the steam.exe or other steam.exe files like steamhelper in the taskmanager, i will try it lateron again and test the game, thanks for the tip.
It seems to work, it also seems to work for
Hope Lake (HOG)
Pixel Heroes - Byte and Magic
The Next Big Thing (exe file)is a nasty one , if the game is not present in the steam folder. then it will popup an error, after googling you find that it will work if you copy steam.exe in the folder the game is, the game will 'update' and will simply 'install' all steam files needed in the folder where the game is, so basically it still needs steam, this is nasty.
I assume the .exe is the guilty one , and has extra code in it to check for steam existence, i will write down the devs/publishers name and wont buy any games from them.
Alternativa seems to be doing the same, so it wont work on that one, guess the .exe has to be fixed.
GhostControlInc : pops up and starts but... closes again so it wont work, guess the exe needs a job.
Heavens Hope also wont work, these games really need steam client, so this dev is also on the avoid list to buy games from :D
Thats why i buy these games at steam sales so if they dont work i can dump them, cause plsying a game with a client running is bad for the gaming performance , unless you have 8 cpu and a very expensive big GPU.
So far all realore games seem to work without steam once they are installed, 1 game asked for a key but the key was given after installation, i own almost all reallore games.
Games work without the txt file trick, so as long as they keep doing this i be buying games from reallore, as soon as they start to tighten things up, i stop buying games from them.