• chameleon
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      41 month ago

      It technically still exists in the game properties -> installed files tab, but it doesn’t really work. The backup files you get require you to be online to meaningfully restore and will trigger a patch to the latest game version.

      Practically speaking it’s better to just make a copy of the game install directory manually, gives you a better chance of things working (even though most games require some kind of external tooling for that).

        • chameleon
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          11 month ago

          For current exports, it’s some custom .csm/.csd file combo. Not sure if there’s any tools for working with it, seems like it’d be more annoying than just using a normal archive format either way.

          • @ouch@lemmy.world
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            11 month ago

            That’s bad. I guess if I want to back up my Steam games, it’s going to be tarballs.

    • Björn Tantau
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      21 month ago

      It’s still there. But I never tried it and it probably won’t work with DRMed games.

    • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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      21 month ago

      I don’t remember that ever being a thing. It’s had an offline mode for decades, but for the longest time it never worked properly.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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        1 month ago

        It had a way of packing a game into a CD/DVD when it launched. I used it all of two times. It was slow as fuck. If it still has it, as another commenter suggests, I don’t know how to access it.