No track of player time by steam

No track of player time by steam
Yesterday I played Quake 3: Team Arena on steam. I am acquainted with that I had about 10 hours of at present played time. I had a 2h session and stop. Now that I’m survey my diversions sum played time it is supposed to express 12 hours right? It sees as 0 hours, not played to any detectable degree. Does this happen dispense? Ought to I probably quit acquiring recreations on steam?

#2
17-09-2011
Bjork
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 321
Re: No track of player time by steam
Perhaps you were playing in disconnected from the net mode. Steam won't unite time played in logged off mode unless it utilizes the Steam fog. I think it’s a bit numbskull thou. I mean, how hard it would be able to be to total the time played in logged off mode the following time you could go on the net. In my opinionit’s simply a languid plan. I never pondered leaving Steam simply on account of that.

#3
17-09-2011
CamilleT
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 374
Re: No track of player time by steam
This just happens when I play in disconnected from the net mode. When you start an event in disconnected from the net mode it begins numbering from 0. Wouldn't it be great if we could declare you played 120min in disconnected from the net mode, then you retreat the recreation, and the following time you begin the recreation in logged off mode it'll begin numbering from 0min, which is sort of imbecilic, and to put all the more in the ineptitude, it won't put in your played time in on the net mode, so provided that you play 10 hours in disconnected from the net mode, the following time you get within the web based world, the 10 hours you played disconnected from the net can basically be overlooked, but in within the web based world mode I've never run into that situation.

#4
17-09-2011
Kestrel--
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 51
Re: No track of player time by steam
Does it include a launcher? Steam is known to track the time of the launcher, instead of the amusement. It's in the process of taking them for a moment to settle it. In the mean time, I’m not utilizing steam. I lost what added up to possibly 20 gameplay hours.

#5
19-09-2011
DamarisK
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 439
Re: No track of player time by steam
Steam tracks the time the first .exe document is opened. Since the first exe starts an additional .exe (i.e. a launcher) and it shuts the time is not enlisted. It tries not to have a launcher btw, on the other hand, the steam overlay doesn’t work, and you need to cripple it to play (Valve flop afresh). Old amusements like Broken Sword II and III should not log any play time hours. The diversion start window reassures unfailingly I begin the diversion. Since Quake III does it doubtlessly clarifies why Steam isn't tracking the hour's log.