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

• 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 ;)

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

• 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

• 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

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

• Yes, you can idle any game you want.

• 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, it's all portable now.

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

• 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

• Try start both IM and Steam as Administrator.

• Try change your Steam website language to english.

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

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

• 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]

• 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

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

it's all portable now, you don't need to install it to use

If you want to get cards from these F2P games, it's meaningless I say,

you need to pay some items inside the game to get trading cards, US $9 to drop one card

From author of IM who also wrote IM FAQ:

Can Idle Master be used to get card drops for F2P games on Steam?
Free to play (F2P) games on Steam are only eligible for trading card drops when you make purchases in-game. Cards drop at a rate of 1 card for every $9 spent in-game or on DLC purchases. If you are eligible for card drops made from purchases, Idle Master will idle these games like any other (and prioritize them accordingly). For more information, please read the Steam Trading Cards FAQs.
http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/tradingcards/faq/

Yep, working as always --- http://i.imgur.com/ON0wDml.png
IM will keep working until Steam change their API which gonna cause IM malfunction

thats why I said "might" and "specific game", because you might violate their rules which CSGO don't care

Do NOT use SAM to get achivements complete, it might get you banned from some specific game, ex: GTAV

Not sure which permission window you saw, have you tried lower or disable UAC
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-uac-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/

showing image was depends on how many games you were idling,
which affected by your setting:
http://i.imgur.com/7BYIso6.png
.
If you idling multiple game in same time,
IdleMaster will show all the games you are running;
if you only idling one game,
it will show the image of that game as the image you posted

> Makam
Just wanna help : )

> gghx7
I don't see problem here, program is idling cards and looks fine,
is your steam status showing you are playing game?