Is there anyway to run games you bought through steam without having steam on?

[lahey]

So yeah,
Is there anyway to run games you bought through steam without having steam on?
I'm trying to do this with ArmA2, to squeeze a little extra power of not having steam on in the background.
(My CPU aint' to good)
It runs alright, but it ran better in the demo, when I didn't need to have steam on in the background.
Any suggestions?

[fille87]

Nope, steam has to be running

[zeebiedeebie]

I don't think so. Sorry. :ninja:

[lahey]

Oh well, thanks guys.
Guess I'll just save for a better processor.

[B1N4RY]

There are steam emulators, i don't think it is considered legal though.

[Nikita]

Emulators are always more laggy.

[B1N4RY]

[QUOTE=Nikita;17619294]Emulators are always more laggy.[/QUOTE]

You really don't have a clue what you are talking about, do you?

The so called steam emulator only creates a fake steam enviroment, to bypass the steam dependancy check that steam games have when it is executed