Store talk:Steam

Little remainder to say sometimes you can spot problems in:

• <Steam-folder>\logs\installscript_log.txt
• <Steam-folder>\logs\cloud_log.txt

What informations to do such logs store? Other than the obvious title.

The obvious title info.
Which may be useful here or here
ps: information is uncountable

So, while I was looking for ways to stop those auto-updates.. (trivia: there was never a setting, as explained in my new reference)
..I stumbled upon this. What do we now about Steam console?

I tried the method suggested there, but it didn't work.. Though I had never heard of this steam://open/console, seems interesting

btw, I found "Automatic updates" setting is no longer saved where claimed in the previous link, but instead in each game appmanifest_####.acf

The console has some interesting commands, such as ones to list all the subscriptions you have, the config of a game, and downloading individual depots. It can also be used to change some variables within Steam. It's not recommended for the end user to try, as they could bork things, and the commands are not documented with any amount of detail. I remember Steam.cfg from some Steam hacking site a bunch of years ago, and it is actually still used now (for Steamworks developers so they can test their builds).

The Steam#Steam Offline Mode override method should still work (at least last time I tried it).

• Remove Steam on Wine section since it's now officially supported on Linux.

• Move General Information Section up to the top with the General information tag.

• Remove Windows/Mac/Linux section headers and implement a general 'Issues and Fixes' section. OS-specific problems can be titled as such: 'Issue (OS)'.

• Improve 'Sales' section with links to websites that list Steam sales (there are various) including SteamDB. Also delete sections with nothing underneath them.

• Separate System Requirements into 3 separate per-OS tables.

There is a glitch with offline mode. Sometimes if you try to sign into online mode (especially if you have never done it before), it will attempt to connect to the Internet, and sign in to Steam anyway. The fix is to log into Steam where you are online, select "Go Offline" from the menu, then restart Steam, and Offline Mode will work properly. All of that information is here on the wiki, of course, but it is hard to understand the way it is written. If you are just looking for a fix to make offline mode work, it's easy to overlook the solution (the Authentication section). I would try to fix this, but I can't think of how to reword what is written without losing the current information or being redundant. Any ideas?