Bought a gaming laptop at a decent price recently purely for the occasional times I travel, namely to places where internet is not a option. Have a real gaming PC at home I'll use if I want to play things with proper modern fidelity.The laptop was cheap, but it can handle Dolphin and PCSX2 just fine, I don't need much more than that to just kill downtime.Problem is I don't want to have my Steam account on the thing as it'd be retarded to have important shit on a PC that by design is portable, so thus potentially stolen/lost/etc. Not that I'm planning on such happening, but it's a non-zero possibility.Ideally Steam wouldn't be installed on it at all, but I could still play the games I have on my real PC by copying them over. I'm not above pirating shit, but I shouldn't HAVE to with games I already wasted money through Steam on.Tried a couple of titles I had on hand, and it was a random indie starfox clone that was the only one that'd "Just work" opening the executable.If there's some way to emulate whatever shit these games need from Steam to get around this issue, that'd be ideal. Heard something about Russian Steam clients that can automate this kind of thing and just straight up let you download whatever with it, but I have no idea what to search / even start looking for that sort of thing. Also something about making a 2nd Steam account and using the Family Share thing to share games with myself, but how exactly that works when an internet connection isn't a option seemed murky when looking into it.If I can only emulate PS2/Wii and older plus do basic movie/media shit on this then I could live with that, but I'd rather not if I don't have to. And I'd rather not buy the same games over again on GoG because of bullshit DRM.Any thoughts? I'm kinda lost as to how to proceed beyond just ignoring the problem and just living with purely emulating shit.
>>738088507>recently purely for the occasional times I travelAnon....your games are region locked....
>>738088507Look into sunshine streaming
>>738088738>namely to places where internet is not a option.
>>738088507What even question is this?? You can't even use steam without an account.Just get modded doom 2 of something if you are that picky and refuse to make a throwaway account.
>>738088817Well then just pirate
>>738088507>If there's some way to emulate whatever shit these games need from Steam to get around this issue, that'd be ideal.There's goldberg: https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulatorAlso if you didn't know there's also a list of DRM free steam games: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_SteamA few unity games that require Steam but work completely fine by just removing the dll found in "Game name/Game-name_Data/Plugins/x86_64/steam_api.dll" and I assume something similar can be done for other games if you check.
>>738088507Log out of steam every time you shut the laptop down and enable 2FA. If you lose the device, just change your password and disable it as a trusted device in steam.As for all your other problems: pirate.
>>738088507Enable 2FA, if your laptop ever gets stolen you can de authorize it from the Steam mobile app.
>>738088870>Also something about making a 2nd Steam account and using the Family Share thing>And I'd rather not buy the same games over again on GoG because of bullshit DRM.Holy fuck can people not read.>>738088915Well, yeah. Again, not above doing so but if there were options where I didn't need to I'd rather do that.>>738088997Thank you, approaching actual answers.Looking at Mr Goldberg, it seems to just be for emulating the multiplayer shit so the game keeps working if it relies on it, not for removing the need to have Steam in its entirety.As for the list, it's certainly the most helpful thing here, but of course this means I'm at the whims of the developer whether shit wants to run or not.>>738089018>>738089189Fuck 2FA and fuck cellphones.
>>738089321Then you should just kill yourself and leave everyone alone. You have options but refuse them for no reason.
>>738089321You act like a low digital fingerprinting, low profile schizo but you have a steam account. Either go full schizo or don't go at all. There's myabandonware for you if you end up choosing the correct path. Otherwise just stop pretending to be le ebin hackerman.
>>738089321>it seems to just be for emulating the multiplayer shitNo, it also lets you play games without steam.
>>738088507>Also something about making a 2nd Steam account and using the Family Share thing to share games with myself, but how exactly that works when an internet connection isn't a option seemed murky when looking into it.It's only as murky as just using offline mode.I happen to have a Steam account for my kids which I added as a "child" account in my Steam family. I just tried disconnecting from the internet and then launching Steam from the operating system account that uses the child Steam account, and Steam opened (with NO CONNECTION at the bottom of course) and was able to launch one of the games shared from my main account. If I chose to stay offline, I assume this would work as long as any other use of offline mode. It may need to authenticate again eventually. So it may not be viable if you're going to be completely off the grid for months, but otherwise this seems like your best bet for accessing your Steam library without your main account's credentials being on the computer. Make a throwaway account, add it to your family, and just kick that account out of your family if the laptop is stolen (or you could just log into that second account for another machine, change the password, and find the option to log you out from all devices).
>>738090585oops.>from another machinefixed
OP is likely a melanin enriched individual that 'acquired' a laptop with preinstalled steam games that are refusing to run without a valid steam login.
>>738088507>Not just encrypting your laptop at BIOS levelIf your laptop is stolen and they actually have access to your shit afterwards then your Steam account is the very least of your worries.
>>738090472It's not about being le ebin low profile 'tard or whatever, it's about not wanting the machine that's out and about being compromised and some fuckwad running away with my personal details shit. Y'know, basic security by not introducing a problem to begin with type shit.>>738090482Oh, is it a case of it not advertising that's what it does but that's what it gets used for?In that case, fair enough. That solves everything if so.>>738090585>It may need to authenticate again eventually.That was the biggest thing I was worried about, but if it does "Just work" if you go into offline mode, that doesn't seem that bad. If the Mr Goldberg thing doesn't work like it seems to be implied it does, then I'll investigate that avenue.>>738090754Ah, but you see, the trick is to not stick shit on the laptop to begin with that has any value.A laptop that needs to do absolute jack shit aside from play PC games and playback video doesn't need anything actually important on it.
>>738090929> it's about not wanting the machine that's out and about being compromised and some fuckwad running away with my personal details shit.That's what >>738090754is for. If you password your drives in BIOS then those drives are useless without the password, even in another machine, and can only be completely wiped to have any use again if the nigger that stole your laptop who probably doesn't have the technical knowhow to steal or get any use out of your personal data anyway wants to resell it.
>>738088997>>738089321After testing with a few games, it seems as though the Mr Goldberg thing does in fact do exactly what it was I was needing, thanks for the point in the right direction!
>>738092262Nice!
You're a retard and should jump off the nearest bridgeShould your skull be so fucking dense you actually survive the impact, go ahead and just pirate all of the games you want to play>b-but muh moralsnobody gives a fuck, also you already paid for them so it's straight up legal
