Terraria refusing to run in offline mode?

[ana spelunky (menace)]

(I have windows 10 64bit)
I'm moving to an apartment and we won't have any internet til' this sunday. I'd like to be able to launch the game without internet, because I have insomnia and want something to do.

Every time I launch Terraria in offline mode, it opens in the background and doesn't launch, I've tried running it in compatibilty mode for windows 8 and 7, running as administrator, verifying game cache, and reinstalling, but it never does anything.

Does terraria really need internet to launch, because as far as I'm aware of, the game's files are downloaded locally, so there is no reason of why it should need it..

Edits: It runs perfectly fine while online, and changing the game to run in windowed doesnt help.

Trying to run the Executable from the game's folder (In steamapps) doesn't help, it doesn't open the "preparing to launch Terraria", though.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

I've known friends whereby Terraria takes half an hour to start up. :\ Mine takes about 5 minutes.

Just leave it running & see if it works.

[ana spelunky (menace)]

Originally posted by aidenpons:

I've known friends whereby Terraria takes half an hour to start up. :\ Mine takes about 5 minutes.

Just leave it running & see if it works.

I should've noted that it opens perfectly fine, instantly while online. I'm guessing this is a steam related issue.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Oh, that is indeed odd.

Take a look in Task Manager. Does it show up in there?

oh and I take it you're running vanilla Terraria - no mods?

[ana spelunky (menace)]

Originally posted by aidenpons:

Oh, that is indeed odd.

Take a look in Task Manager. Does it show up in there?

oh and I take it you're running vanilla Terraria - no mods?

Yeah, it runs in the background processes and never launches.

Also, yes, no mods.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Well, it's launching, suggesting that perhaps if you leave it for an hour and come back it'll work? :| Not sure what else you can try...

[ana spelunky (menace)]

Originally posted by aidenpons:

Well, it's launching, suggesting that perhaps if you leave it for an hour and come back it'll work? :| Not sure what else you can try...

Ok, I'll try, if worst comes to worst, I'll just play minecraft for 2 days. lmao
Thanks for the help, though.

[Bongwater Pizza]

My suggestion would be to find the settings ini (probably in mygames/terraria), and set thr game to windowed mode.

[liquiddd]

i know this topic is over 5 years old, but im also having this issue. did anyone figure out why and how to fix it? i have very limited internet access so it would be a great help.

[Cannon]

Originally posted by liquidddingle:

i know this topic is over 5 years old, but im also having this issue. did anyone figure out why and how to fix it? i have very limited internet access so it would be a great help.

What worked for me was actively putting Steam in 'offline mode' and then opening the game.

[finger_dinger]

Wow this is so stup1d, offline game that requires online connection even if no internet ><

[Crypto Carlos]

Originally posted by Ruinae Retroque Rursus:

I've known friends whereby Terraria takes half an hour to start up. :\ Mine takes about 5 minutes.

Just leave it running & see if it works.

Yikes, if Terraria takes 30 minutes, let alone 5 minutes to start up, there's something seriously wrong with your machine. I'm on a system with a ~12/13 year old CPU and a basic SATA SSD and it takes just a few moments to boot into Terraria.

[Jakipoo03]

Originally posted by ana spelunky (menace):

(I have windows 10 64bit)
I'm moving to an apartment and we won't have any internet til' this sunday. I'd like to be able to launch the game without internet, because I have insomnia and want something to do.

Every time I launch Terraria in offline mode, it opens in the background and doesn't launch, I've tried running it in compatibilty mode for windows 8 and 7, running as administrator, verifying game cache, and reinstalling, but it never does anything.

Does terraria really need internet to launch, because as far as I'm aware of, the game's files are downloaded locally, so there is no reason of why it should need it..

Edits: It runs perfectly fine while online, and changing the game to run in windowed doesnt help.

Trying to run the Executable from the game's folder (In steamapps) doesn't help, it doesn't open the "preparing to launch Terraria", though.

I had this problem until I set steam to offline mode and now it boots for me

[Jfeeeeeee]

Originally posted by Jakipoo03:

Originally posted by ana spelunky (menace):

(I have windows 10 64bit)
I'm moving to an apartment and we won't have any internet til' this sunday. I'd like to be able to launch the game without internet, because I have insomnia and want something to do.

Every time I launch Terraria in offline mode, it opens in the background and doesn't launch, I've tried running it in compatibilty mode for windows 8 and 7, running as administrator, verifying game cache, and reinstalling, but it never does anything.

Does terraria really need internet to launch, because as far as I'm aware of, the game's files are downloaded locally, so there is no reason of why it should need it..

Edits: It runs perfectly fine while online, and changing the game to run in windowed doesnt help.

Trying to run the Executable from the game's folder (In steamapps) doesn't help, it doesn't open the "preparing to launch Terraria", though.

I had this problem until I set steam to offline mode and now it boots for me

This worked for me too

[th]

Most likely many of you (or at least some of you) have your Steam Cloud storage on (this is also a default state). So when Steam is in online mode but no Internet connection - Terraria tries to grab its saves from the Cloud storage and can not do that coz of the absence of Internet. So it stays like that (trying to wait til the connection is present) indefinitely.

Forcing Steam to offline mode just tells the game that it is useless to wait and it launches all right but probably without those saves that are stored in the Cloud.

One more reason to never use Steam Cloud storage. It's glitchy anyway and often corrupts or just loses saves.

Switch all your saves (worlds and players) to local storage. There is that smaaaaall button on every world and player in the game main menu for that. And then just turn off the entire cloud feature for Terraria in the right click menu for the game in the Steam library.

[kelmir osue]

I'm having issues and even tried all that was suggested here. Got no results so what now?