November 2020
KingRay5757 wrote:
Holger1405 I'm definitely tired of explaining this, and there is no question that you can't test this without losing access to the internet. Going into offline mode with Origin does not hold, and you can't login without a network. Let me say again, YOU CAN'T LOGIN WITHOUT A NETWORK!
Yes you can, I do it all the time at my vacation spot were no internet is available at all.
KingRay5757 wrote:
We shouldn't have to login with a game that is not multiplayer, and I'm not getting paid to keep troubleshooting Origin. So, I won't.
See, that is the problem.
It is of course your prerogative not to do it, but that makes your claim that it don't works at all not true.
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@KingRayVeteran I'm not the person to help troubleshoot this issue, but I just wanted to say I've also never had any trouble playing games while my computer is offline. I deliberately keep one OS offline at all times, unless I happen to need something, and it's not an issue. As an example, I launch Sims 4 from its .exe, Origin shows me a login window, I enter my credentials, and the game opens as normal.
I expect this would work with Sims 3 as well, but the install in that OS doesn't require Origin at all.
One thing I don't have is a cleaner app that removes temp files. I imagine that having one could also remove your login information, which would force you to go online again to verify your credentials. I don't know whether you've looked into this or not; I haven't been keeping up with the thread. I'm just tossing it out there as a potential reason that some people might find themselves needing online access to login.
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So came here looking to find a solution but it seems it won’t help me. I have NO INTERNET today and lo and behold! I also disabled the Ethernet cables just to show you that doesn’t work either to try to trick origin. Origin just gets stuck like this. Tried to force quit origin several times and restart and same blank thing. Can’t even sign in offline :/
edit: took the pic with my phone obviously, or else there is NO way I could have posted or found this post. Can’t believe this is still an issue since 2014!
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@SweetVeggieAmai yes, it's still an issue because people won't stop posting disclaimers. Running the game from Steam won't solve this silly problem either, because all of them have this 'offline' mode that doesn't truly put the state offline until services return. Without services, you can't even put it offline.
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i literally just signed in to origins and what happened when i clicked my games library? a white screen that said that it cannot show content without internet connection.... so nobody tell me that there isnt an issue, as that should never happen in the first place, also the origin client is now unstable due to loading that stupid home page thing (which is entirely useless, we wanna see that stuff we can just enter the stupid store for gods sake), up till now i have defended ea not believing that they had fallen so low, but now theyre no different than blizzard, useless customer service, ignoring bug reports the whole shebang, i love the dragon age and mass effect games and have played them to death, owning them on multiple platforms (i own all 3 on pc and 360, and dai on ps4 aswell, and that one was so i could get the last dlc and use the golden nug, so i own it on 3 separate platfroms, mea on xb1, kingdoms of amalur on pc and 360), at this point itd prolly be best to just scrap origin and return gaming back to standalone programs that launch from desktop and dont require another program to run, hell i own nox which is an old as dirt pc game on origin but if i start it up it starts origin which makes zero sense as its a game that would in no way require such a thing (seeing as it was from the 90s when online gaming was barely a thing), also i notice that the topic is listed as solved when it isnt........
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KingRay5757 wrote:
I can't troubleshoot this unless I lose my services. I was just annoyed with that other person, because they were being a smart-a@@; so I returned the sentiment. LOL I may not understand how the game works in that mode, but I do know Windows PC's very very well.
I guess the "smart-a@@" is me?
For the Computer inside the network it doesn't mater at all if you loose your service or disconnect the Computer by hand. The result is the same, no network connection on the PC.
So you can troubleshot this, by simply disconnecting your computer from the network.
@SweetVeggieAmai
I would guess that there is a problem with the Origin cache.
Unfortunately you will need a internet connection to repair that problem.
If you have your connection back, follow this guide:
All settings in Origin (only in Origin not in the games) are back to default settings after this.)
After your description I asume you have a working internet connection but Origin tells you that it can't connect because there is no connection?
Is that right?
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yeah i have a stable working internet connection, to get my library i had to shut down origin and restart it, if it was working correctly i wouldnt have had to even d that, i have both steam and origin and i have never had an issue with steam