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The day before yesterday I bought a copy of HL2, i went on to install it on my p4 1.8ghz computer with 1 gig of ram and a radeon 9600 XT graphics card, the installation itself was like 25 minutes more or less but steam installation and update was a ROYAL PAIN IN THE @@S! i am one of the unfortunate people to still have dial up internet service, and it took steam 2 HOURS to update itself and HL2, finally it finished by 12:30 a.m. (started installation at 10:00 p.m.)....f i finally got HL2's cd key registered and 100% updated, and it says it's ready to play in offline mode, BUT NO! steam will not let me start HL2 in offline mode whenever i am not connected to the internet i start up steam and it gives me this message on this screenshot: i did checked the "remember password" and have unchecked the "don't save account information on this computer", i even uninstalled steam and downloaded the steam installer.....but it still gives me that message....and i don't see anywere the "log out" option or something like that in steam, i've also looked on the steam support page that if you start up steam and you press cancel when it's connecting to the server, that it'll give you the choice to go offline but whenever i attempt that...steam just quits....i am really puzzled..... i would really.....really....really appreciate some suggestions you guys may have.........