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LaZycAt 2016 年 12 月 26 日下午 3:24

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Somehow Steam just killed IM, again,
if your IM or IM Extended wont login,
read this thread for temporary solution

Post update 2024.12.13

I see you guys too lazy to read the full FAQ,
so heres simple version with some more common questions answered

If this post helped you, or you have some other question, please leave a comment below, I will try to help you when I'm available

First of all.

Update your IM to IdleMaster Extended v1.10.0 or newer if you are still using older version, and try your problems still remains or not.
Idle Master Extended by JonasNilson [github.com]
thanks to jshackles created IM and JonasNilson contiuned it ;)

Is IM still in development?

No, jshackles stopped the development, but currently there's contiuned fork called Idle Master Extended and work by JonasNilson

Idling Complete?

Trading cards are not endless, means you don't have any more game that can drop cards, buy more droppable games or spend money in F2P games.
OR, you are facing a session error, please re-login the IdleMaster

Idle F2P (Free to Play) games?

Yes, but you need to spend money in game/buy DLCs to make cards droppable, every $9 USD (or equivalent of your country's currency) spent you get one card, then IM will detect it have some cards can drop.
Steam Trading Cards FAQs

Idle Family Shared games?

No, you need to buy the game to get cards.

Idle VAC protected game ex:CSGO?

Yes, you can idle any game you want.

VAC ban?

Since you are not cheating in the gameplay, bans from using idling-tools are very rare, just do NOT use IM when you playing VAC protected game for less worrying.
I do not guarantee your safe, but I run the idling while playing other games (including VAC enabled games), nothing bad happened to me.

No installer?

No, it's all portable now.

More then 2 hours to drop one card?

If you refund on Steam before, you might got this punishment.
Description by jshackles

Can't sign in?

Try restart or re-download IM.
Get your own Custom URL and try again.
http://i.imgur.com/SakYQGk.png
Remove all file in this folder below and try again, this is where IM stores it's settings.

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\IdleMaster
OR, try this thread

IM says Steam isn't running?

Try start both IM and Steam as Administrator.

Can't load badge?

Try change your Steam website language to english.

Having problem in newer OS?

Try change IM compatibility to older OS ex: Windows 7.

IM stopped working?

Check out the solution from LuckyShot.
Here's a solution for idlemaster problems

Can't download IM?

I just uploaded another copy of IM to Google Drive, if offical download link won't work, or you having problem download the IM, try this one:
IdleMaster Extended 1.3 on Google Drive [drive.google.com]
VirusTotal scan report [www.virustotal.com]

Force idle a game with IM?

You can either use cmd or make a shortcut and edit the command-line to do that,
just put the game id after steam-idle.exe
if you don't know how to get game's app id: SteamDB[steamdb.info]
cmd : http://i.imgur.com/fmucN04.png
shortcut : http://i.imgur.com/1kdyCTH.png

Do I need to install the games before idling them?

No. IdleMaster will run the game in a simulated way, makes steam client thought you are playing that game, so install before idling are not needed

最后由 LaZycAt 编辑于; 2024 年 12 月 13 日上午 3:44

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引用自 MrL0G1C:

引用自 TheUneqq：
Idling complete doesn't mean that i don't have any more games. I have abouth 30 games with cards available and i have't collected them. SO "IDLING COMPLETE" DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU HAVE NO MORE GAMES WITH CARDS, ITS JUST A BUG THAT DEVELOPERS CAN'T FIX FOR SOME REASON.

Idle master does not give you cards, steam gives you the cards. Idle Master reads your badge page, it looks for the words 'card drops remaining' and it then tells Steam that those games with drops remaining are running until steam gives you the cards.

If you think the software is not working then you are free to launch the game and wait for the cards to drop. Check your badge page first http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/my/badges

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Jonno.exe 2016 年 12 月 26 日下午 3:25

Very helpful for those who dont know anything about IM. Thanks

Shadok

2016 年 12 月 28 日上午 12:23

I'm gonna start linking people who ask these questions here. This is just so nice and succinct.

LaZycAt 2017 年 1 月 6 日下午 10:24

Updated backup IM to 1.4.1

76561198142946747 2017 年 1 月 24 日下午 9:03

When i start IM it always says idling complete

Shadok

2017 年 1 月 24 日下午 9:12

引用自 Swedy：
When i start IM it always says idling complete

Means you need to actually have card drops remaining. Go buy more games or join giveaways.

Ivanovich Grecovich 2017 年 2 月 26 日上午 8:52

I haven't downloaded some games on my library,does IM still work on those?(they look like the have been launched smh)

LaZycAt 2017 年 2 月 26 日下午 1:36

You don't need the games installed to idle them, IdleMaster will run the game in a simulated way, makes steam client thought you are playing that game,

最后由 LaZycAt 编辑于; 2017 年 2 月 26 日下午 1:37

Ivanovich Grecovich 2017 年 2 月 26 日下午 1:44

引用自 LaZycAt：
You don't need the games installed to idle them, IdleMaster will run the game in a simulated way, makes steam client thought you are playing that game,

Thank you!

godfather101 2017 年 6 月 3 日下午 12:38

Oh, one question i still have, as Idle Master settings are set to run multiple games (or all of them) at once, doesn't that hurt the drop rate?
Always thought steam changed it when you let multiple games run that you won't get the cards as fast as when you run those games at once. So do i get the cards as fast as it gets when i let idle master run multiple games at simultaneously or should i stick to idle the games each individually?

And thanks for all your work, loving the program.

Shadok

2017 年 6 月 3 日下午 5:18

引用自 godfather101：
Oh, one question i still have, as Idle Master settings are set to run multiple games (or all of them) at once, doesn't that hurt the drop rate?
Always thought steam changed it when you let multiple games run that you won't get the cards as fast as when you run those games at once. So do i get the cards as fast as it gets when i let idle master run multiple games at simultaneously or should i stick to idle the games each individually?

And thanks for all your work, loving the program.

A little, it's more a legacy setting from when Steam refused to drop any cards at all prior to the 2hour mark (so idlemaster would run all games for 2 hours, then individually for cards to claim).

In settings you can disable this and have it do them all 1 by 1 by setting it to idle all games individually.

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godfather101 2017 年 6 月 3 日下午 9:28

okay, thanks, than i'll do that.

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Reanimate 2017 年 6 月 12 日下午 4:31

Answered lots of questions. Thanks for this!

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GR1FF1N_B45T10N 2017 年 9 月 4 日上午 3:22

HELP I can't log into steam on IM, it shows the steam login window but when i type in password ; nickname and pressed enter it just disappears and doesn't sign in

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Jonno.exe 2017 年 9 月 4 日上午 3:24

引用自 GriffinBastion：
HELP I can't log into steam on IM, it shows the steam login window but when i type in password ; nickname and pressed enter it just disappears and doesn't sign in

Close the program and try again prehaps? Try launching from the extracted folder

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