I have not updated manually in a while because the program updates itself when jshackles pushes an update out.

On that note it did update itself a few days ago with a small patch (no version change so no update notes in the program) and it still works just fine.

As far as AV goes I use Comodo and have no false positives.

Just to be sure you got the program from either http://www.steamidlemaster.com/ or https://github.com/jshackles/idle_master correct?

Well since the last update I'm experiencing some issues too. The cards are now dropping really... I mean reallllyyyy slow or they don't drop at all. For three cards it took them almost 9! hours to drop and then the next game it only dropped a card almost immediately but it isn't dropping any card more for three hours+ now.

P.S. Sorry for the shitty formatting of this little wall of text. Pretty late(early) here on my end :P

The latest update didn't change any of the Idle Master code at all, so it won't fix any bugs and shouldn't cause any difference in things such as drop rates.

The update was only a small change to the code signing certificate that the program uses. Previously the application used a self-signed certificate, and now it uses a trusted 3rd party code signing certificate.

The only difference users should notice is that when downloading and installing the program from the site, it should now say that the application is signed by "Open source developer Jason Shackles".

well I think it was just a game specific problem because now the cards are dropping normally :P

Same problem as OP for me, and I'm 99% sure there is a bug.

I updated Steam idler in computer A; Norton gave me an alert about security; no card drops for 3 hours.

I started computer B, I didn't update Steam idler, got card drops as usual (same game as before)

A hint to people with problem: run the program as administrator.
I switched to the portable version and put in some exclusions in my virus guard that deleeted idlemaster. (love how crazy anti virus programs are. While I made exclusions for idle-master I saw that the anti virus program had deleted all steam Xwing exe files + 2 disney exe files. Crappy DRM that we are forced to pay for and than its flagged for virus)

Thanks to the developer for an excellent product. The country I live in 16Mbit is the fastest internet there is. Now I dont have to DL stuff just to get the cards. Valve/Steam should sponsor the developer for all the money Valve/Steam saves on bandwidth.

Same problem since around yesterday.
I have v0.8.0.2 which I think worked OK until yesterday (99%sure)
It does not work since yesterday after the steam store downtime (1-2 days ago steam was down at least for several minutes and nobody couldn access the store).
Now I noticed I do not get drop cards and also Steam does not register the games in iddle master as "played" as it did before.
So perhaps the problem is that Steam has changed something in its serves to make this program stop working.
Anyone has noticed the same or I'm the only one?
P.S: I've tried portable version and run both versions as administrator but it doesn't work.

Update: Portable version is v0.8.0.0 which was working before... Any help? Thanks in advance.

I've got the same problem as them. Since this update, the drops have been veeery slow (it took hours to drop 2 cards), I am here waiting for a card but it just won't drop. (I don't have other games opened.)
Now, I understand that the update was supposed to be harmless and unrelated to the drop rate, but is it possible that somehow something has happened?

As long as Steam shows you "in-game" when Idle Master is running, there is no way that it could affect the rate at which cards drop in any way. This is all determined by Valve and happens at the same rate as it would if you were actually playing the game.

引用自 jshackles：

As long as Steam shows you "in-game" when Idle Master is running, there is no way that it could affect the rate at which cards drop in any way. This is all determined by Valve and happens at the same rate as it would if you were actually playing the game.

The problem is since a couple days ago, steam does not show me "in game" when using iddle master so there are no cards drop.
The games showed as "in game" in iddle master does not shown as "played" in my recently played steam page.
I think the problem should be related to steam servers change and not to the program update (older, portable version v0.8.0.0 also doesn't work anymore).
thanks in advance.

If Steam isn't showing you as in-game, be sure that steam-idle.exe is in the Idle Master directory. It sounds like (for some people at least) the program updated and your anti-virus program deleted the steam-idle.exe application. You can redownload the file (as part of the portable Idle Master) and place it in your Idle Master directory and that should solve the issue.

引用自 jshackles：

If Steam isn't showing you as in-game, be sure that steam-idle.exe is in the Idle Master directory. It sounds like (for some people at least) the program updated and your anti-virus program deleted the steam-idle.exe application. You can redownload the file (as part of the portable Idle Master) and place it in your Idle Master directory and that should solve the issue.

Thanks. I've checked that and also that both programs are not been blocked by my firewall and everything was correct. Now is working fine. I'm not 100% sure but i think It started working after I played a game in steam. I has no explanation for it. But if anyone is having the same problem, apart for checking anvtirus and firewall, close idle master, play a game for a while in steam and then try again to chek if it works then (I played a game with cards and had cards dropped, just in case).
Thanks again for the support.
Best regards.

Where is the directory for Idle Master?

引用自 ZondaF12：

Where is the directory for Idle Master?

Mine was inside appdata hidden directory in my user directory (windows 7 64bits)
Search for idlemaster.exe in c:/users/<yourusername>/Appdata/Local. Below these directories I think it uses some random directory to store the program.
Also cehack your quarantine programs ion your antivirus program. If there is steam-api.exe iy also must tell you from where has been moved to quarantine.
Mine was: /Users/<myusername>/AppData/Local/Apps/2.0/ANYVQ93A.JRR/5CHJJG0M.G5L/idle...exe_<alotofrandonnumbers>
Hope it helps!

Cheers man this fixed it.