or even Steam Idle Master Extended. Any program that needs the steam.exe process to be running on your computer will be running locally and you can play games with em running.
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But could cause problems with Anti-Cheats from what I've heard
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Does it? I've launched it with Helldivers 2 (they use game guared) and haven't gotten banned (yet) but yeesh, being on the safe side is probably the best idea if someone has been banned.
but a little more info, Idle Master Extended is kind of annoying to setup since only cookie logging in works. You need to get an extension and copy paste two bits of info into your program to log you in and you need to do this almost every day (or even multiple times per day, not sure). It is faster though than SAM since SAM just leaves the game running but Idle Master does some extra stuff with idling multiple automatically, restarting the game, etc.
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https://github.com/jshackles/idle_master/issues/40#issuecomment-67688388
This is close to what I remember. Basically just don't play VAC-Secured games.
And even that's just a risk but I couldn't find anything about actual bans, just rumors.
Been a long time since I've decided between ASF and Idle master (extended)
I've gone with ASF as it's the run it and forget about it solution. The config/setup might take a bit longer, but BECAUSE you can't play other games at the same time it's seems to be the 'safer' solution.
https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/FAQ#can-i-get-vac-ban-for-using-this
When idling it pretends to be a separate steam client instead of using the one running normally on your PC. That's why it shows "another computer". This also allows you to select "play on this PC" which in turn stops the idler until you stop playing again. After a few minutes of you not playing it should log back in and start idling again. (Since I don't have a bunch of games to idle for anymore I don't know how well this still works but it used to work very nicely)
This just made it safer in my eyes as I don't need to worry about it. I used to have it in the autostart of my PC as it doesn't interfere with anything until I had idled all the games at the beginning. I stopped doing so but theoretically you could keep it there indefinitely and optionally enable ShutdownOnFarmingFinished if you only want it to run when there's something to idle.
(opinion) There's no hurry to idle cards, so choosing the comfortable/safer solution instead of idling minimally faster isn't worth it :)
ASF does a really good job in the sense of minimizing required idle time in a reasonable amount.
if anything one can try setting MarketableDescending (I had the feeling there used to be a price setting, but maybe I'm just imagining that)
https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Performance
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and... is not a program to only unluck achivements?
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That's one of its functions, you can also remove achievements, but it also idles for cards. There's two programs. One gives you a list of games, but you can also add the app ID for games that have no achievements, then you open as many games as you want to run at once.
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The original Idlemaster is dead. But Idle Master Extended is not dead, and no more subject to bans than ASF, as far as I know. I've been using it for years and have not had any negative impact.
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Wouldn't it be possible to put Steam in offline mode (if your game supports that) and let ASF run for idling on the same machine? (i mean ASF is online, even though you set the bot setting to "offline")
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I dont get the problem. What do you mean you cannot play when idling?
ASF pauses when you start a game and resumes automatically when you exit the game.
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ehe, i want farm AND play in the same time without stopping the idling UwU
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Hi, ArchiSteamFarm is work from "another computer" so i cannot play any game, with steam online, when ArchiSteamFarm is running. Is any way to run ArchiSteamFarm in local so steam can see two games open on the same pc and i can play when the farm is on?
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