From our FAQ thread:


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

First up, read the FAQ. This is literally one of the answers there. The FAQ is in the pinned topics. You would have had to ignore it to find the post-discussion button.

Since I'm here, I'll answer anyway
>"Idling Complete"
Long story short: You've run out of cards to gain from the idlemaster program. Steam/Valve give you only half (50%) of 1 single badge level for free. The rest you're expected to buy or trade for.
In short your idlemaster "Car" is out of fuel. You want it to get you more cards? Buy or obtain (via giveaways) more card-giving games.

To pre-empt a few followups I often get:
"Can I use <Free to play game, usually TF2> for cards?": Yes but you'll need to pay them about $20 USD to get 1 free card. Not cost effective but a nice freebie if you would spend that cash anyway.
"How do I get more games?": Check the storefront for cheap deals, you can easily get games 50c or less. Or if you're unable/unwilling to pay, join one of the dozens of giveaway groups, who will host giveaways or link to giveaways (depending on the group)
"Will turning the cards into gems/trading the cards mean it will work after they're gone?" Nope. Once your counter hits 0 that's the end.

If you have ever gotten a refund from steam you'll have to wait 2 hours.

Otherwise, try clicking "Next game" rapidly on idlemaster to quickly shuffle between your games and trip out Steam. This gives a roughly 33% chance to drop cards per game for some odd reason. So just click until you run out of games, at which point you restart the idlemaster process and do it again. Repeat until all games are depleted or you're bored.

Sounds like what you're saying L0G1C. He's just not understanding that the "disappearance" is due to the limit of free drops.

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Steam drops the cards or doesn't drop the cards, I'm guessing the account is restricted, google steam restricted accounts. Typically the account just needs to be funded to remove the restriction.

you mean i need to buy a game on steam to get it to work?

No you need to spend $5 USD (or at least put $5 USD into your steam wallet)

What happens if you run it as non-admin?

Going to need a LOT more detail to even start helping you.

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You should just have steam and idlemaster running. On Steam it will appear as if you're in-game.

Does that answer it?

on steam it doesn't say i am in game neither in idlemaster but thanks for helping :Binary_v2:

Check your badges page to make sure it says [X] cards remaining on a game or else you're out of cards.

You should just have steam and idlemaster running. On Steam it will appear as if you're in-game.

Does that answer it?

Probably not.

I mean there's a tiny REMOTE chance that you may in the same sense that you "may get hit by a meteor today".

But probably nothing will happen.