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My question is how accurate is the time played clock on Steam? I have noticed that on TF2 when I count the hours played with all classes its about 40 but it says time played its 74 hours. Has anyone noticed this?
My question is how accurate is the time played clock on Steam? I have noticed that on TF2 when I count the hours played with all classes its about 40 but it says time played its 74 hours. Has anyone noticed this?
Cause it counts idle time in menus. Also you can reset the time you spent with a button on stats screen.
Im fairly certain the Steam clock is 100%
All that time
Game loading up,Waiting in line for servers, Changing classes, Checking your items, Changing items, Crafting, ALL of that is logged as TF2 time.
also theres a process called hl2.exe that you need to turn off through task manager because (at least for me) that doesnt close when i close tf2 and as long as thats on it counts as time played
My question is how accurate is the time played clock on Steam? I have noticed that on TF2 when I count the hours played with all classes its about 40 but it says time played its 74 hours. Has anyone noticed this?
Im fairly certain the Steam clock is 100%
It is not. At all.
It pisses me off too, because I'm way into seeing my stats on how long I've played certain games.
For example, I had 5 hours played on MW2 single player, overnight it reverted back to 2. I had 2 or 3 hours played on Hitman: Blood Money, now it says I've never even played it. I've played 3+ hours of Star Wars: TFU and it says I've played 78 minutes. I had 42 hours played on Bad Company 2, went on a 5 or 6 hour binge of the multiplayer and it never credited me for that.
The most extreme example is my brother's Magicka playtime. He played it for around 10 hours, and overnight it went up to 30, then he played it another hour and it went to 39.
My question is how accurate is the time played clock on Steam? I have noticed that on TF2 when I count the hours played with all classes its about 40 but it says time played its 74 hours. Has anyone noticed this?
Im fairly certain the Steam clock is 100%
It is not. At all. It pisses me off too, because I'm way into seeing my stats on how long I've played certain games. For example, I had 5 hours played on MW2 single player, overnight it reverted back to 2. I had 2 or 3 hours played on Hitman: Blood Money, now it says I've never even played it. I've played 3+ hours of Star Wars: TFU and it says I've played 78 minutes. I had 42 hours played on Bad Company 2, went on a 5 or 6 hour binge of the multiplayer and it never credited me for that. The most extreme example is my brother's Magicka playtime. He played it for around 10 hours, and overnight it went up to 30, then he played it another hour and it went to 39.
That was sarcasm. You can find hundreds of threads on the steam forums about it being dead wrong at times.
My question is how accurate is the time played clock on Steam? I have noticed that on TF2 when I count the hours played with all classes its about 40 but it says time played its 74 hours. Has anyone noticed this?
Im fairly certain the Steam clock is 100%
It is not. At all. It pisses me off too, because I'm way into seeing my stats on how long I've played certain games. For example, I had 5 hours played on MW2 single player, overnight it reverted back to 2. I had 2 or 3 hours played on Hitman: Blood Money, now it says I've never even played it. I've played 3+ hours of Star Wars: TFU and it says I've played 78 minutes. I had 42 hours played on Bad Company 2, went on a 5 or 6 hour binge of the multiplayer and it never credited me for that. The most extreme example is my brother's Magicka playtime. He played it for around 10 hours, and overnight it went up to 30, then he played it another hour and it went to 39.
That was sarcasm. You can find hundreds of threads on the steam forums about it being dead wrong at times.
Ah, alrighty.
It makes me very sad. I don't see why it is so hard to record your playtime anyways.
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