Overview
The REVOLUTiON Emulator is used to play Steam games offline or without Steam in general. This site is about the Windows version of the emulator.
However, it also permits running a server that allows clients who do not own the game. This is also called 'cracking' the server or making it 'non-Steam'.
Installation guide
- Place rev.ini and steam.dll in the folder containing your game or server executable.
- For anything but Source-based games, place steamclient.dll there as well. For Source-based games, drop the steamclient.dll in the subfolder 'bin'.
- If you want to make a GCF-backed standalone, you need to use a tool such as MiSteamPrep from the MiSteamSuite to create a minimum footprint for the game.
- (optionally) In case you wanted to use Steam's Game Overlay with your game, use the 'HL2Loader.exe' executable found in the pack to launch your game.
Changes
February 18th, 2012
- Fixes the authentication server
February 10th, 2012
- Fixing a diversity of issues
January 28th, 2012
- Fixing Garry's Mod, possibly Brink and others as well
January 25th, 2012
- Resolves a crash when not being connected to the internet
January 22nd, 2012
- Fixes ghost issues with Setti
- Implements SteamApps005 required for Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) servers
December 25th, 2011
- Fixes an in-game crash
- Fixes listen servers
December 21st, 2011
- Fixes an in-game crash
December 20th, 2011
- Fixes a new interface
October 24th, 2011
- Fixes listen servers
- Fixes the detection of GreenLuma
- Added a new items_440.bin file
August 28th, 2011
- Fixes Counter-Strike Source
August 26th, 2011
- Fixes SteamClient011
August 15th, 2011
- Small fixes
- Updated items_440.bin
July 11th, 2011
- Fixes legit clients connecting to TF2 servers
- Fixes ghosts