This has happened a few times and now I've had enough.
The senario is -
I play in offline mode always because I have no active broadband connection, I take my laptop to work and put steam into online mode to get the patches, then back to offline mode. So I can play at home.
Currently been in offline mode since the last update, I have no need to put steam in online mode untill the patch but...
Finished playing last night, shut down as usual, just got in from work stated up laptop clicked FM13 and I'm once again presented with this-
Unable to connect to the steam network
Offline mode is unavailable because there is no steam log in information stored on this computer.
You will not be able to use steam untill you can connect to the steam network again.
Good one! Seeing as it's been in offline mode because I dont have an Internet connection, I won't be going online to connect to steam will I?
The second brilliant thing is I can see my user name for steam for a split second before I get this error message although 'there is no steam log in information stored on this computer'
What is this crock of **** and how do I fix/prevent this from happening again because it is ****** frustrating?
Deleting the client reg does nothing.
Guess its CM 01/02 tonight then!