Emulator Issues #6121
closedSteam Overlay Support
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Description
Sorry if this is wrong, I can't seem to find how to post an improvement suggestion here, rather than report a bug.
So Dolphin could use better support for Steam's Overlay. Steam's Big Picture significantly improves emulation with its superb UI for joypad gaming and to be able to use the Overlay with Dolphin games would be great.
Updated by delroth about 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Accepted
- Issue type set to Feature request
- Priority set to Low
- Operating system N/A added
Yeah, not sure why it isn't working at the moment. The Steam overlay usually works fine with non Steam games.
Updated by daxtsu about 12 years ago
Updated by Anonymous about 12 years ago
I've tried both OpenGL- and D3D11 backends and steam overlay works fine there for me. Though, I don't really care about steam overlay as I run Dolphin windowed but I wanted to give this a shot anyway to see if this issue is invalid or not and it appears to be invalid. Running Dolphin 3.5-1063 x64!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/78202897/Random/dolphinsteamoverlay.png
What backend did you run Dolphin with?
Updated by Lazar.Dimitri about 12 years ago
Dolphin 3.5 32-bit works perfectly, 64-bit does not. If I remember correctly Steam did mention in their beta client update that the client does have trouble adding in-game overlays to 64bit non steam games.
Updated by Anonymous about 12 years ago
That is funny because I'm on the beta client and it works fine for me.
Updated by Lazar.Dimitri about 12 years ago
@7
funny?
What build and you using? I'm curious. I'm using stable.
Updated by dannycaller about 12 years ago
hm, so I've just done some scientific testing and I discovered where the issue lies.
If I add dolphin's exe as a non steam game and launch the game from there, I can open up the ovelay fine.
However, if I open a game directly with dolphin, avoiding the UI, as I do in the custom bat I made (converted to exe for steam), it wont work.
Of course, the whole reason I'm using steam is to eliminate the need for anything but a joypad to play such games and the mouse workaround nullifies that objective.
if it's of any importance, here is an example of the bat I'm using:
Updated by m.can.elmaci over 11 years ago
Dannycal, this is not dolphin's bug. Because you make a .bat file, Steam injects it's overlay to cmd.exe
Updated by dannycaller over 11 years ago
I ended up managing to find a fix for this in the threa dI mad eon the Dolphin forums:
Updated by Billiard26 about 6 years ago
- Status changed from Accepted to Questionable
Steam overlay is working just fine here. Under what circumstances is it not working?
Updated by Billiard26 over 3 years ago
- Status changed from Questionable to Working as intended
No response. Assuming fixed. Will re-open on request.