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    SteamLauncher

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    On 6/12/2021 at 10:10 AM, JedExodus said:

    Thanks for your continued work on the plugin man. I know it's no small task. We all find it as useful as you yourself do. 

    I'm as big a novice as the is when it comes to coding, but if there's anything we as a community can do to help I'm sure there's plenty of us that will pitch in. 

    This plugin is what convinced me to buy Launchbox.

    SteamLauncher

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    9 hours ago, Lahma said:

    @mrdead Did you add the Origin game to LB via the "Origin Games" importer?

    image.thumb.png.3e55449d61ceb60bde98e734ccd1a571.png

    I've personally never used that feature myself (along with many of the other game/launcher importers) so I would have to look into it further to see exactly how it works. If Origin game shortcuts use some type of a custom, non-standard launcher (kind of like how Steam uses a custom 'steam://' URL handler to launch its own game shortcuts [steam://rungameid/XXXXXX];

     

    Ok so this is interesting.  Origin creates shortcuts to the exe like any sane person would do, but Launchbox imports them with a url style handler.

    image.thumb.png.ab6892176ef228f957834bed1fab7ab4.pngimage.thumb.png.a88b443c479d0ea29ce27753dbc7b258.png

     

    SteamLauncher

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Lahma said:

    Trying to keep the plugin updated to work with all of these various launchers and their unique problems (especially when most of them are going out of their way to make 3rd party overlays not function with their launcher/games) is honestly something that I am probably just not going to be able to keep up with. In nearly all instances, there are workarounds and solutions you can implement if YOU decide that it is worth investing the time and effort to learn what these are and how to apply them. However, given that I have spent many, many hundreds of hours developing this plugin by myself, in my free time, without so much as asking for a single donation, I hope you will forgive me when I admit that I'm probably just not up to investing the extra effort into keeping up with unique intricacies of each publisher's launcher and battling against their constant efforts to keep 3rd party overlays from working.

    I may make exceptions to this in some instances but it will probably require some help and effort on your part as well. Instead of just saying that "so and so" launcher doesn't work, you might 1st check if manually adding a non-Steam shortcut to Steam with one of their games works in the 1st place. If it does, then perhaps it is an issue that I might be able to look into and fix. If it doesn't, then this is likely not something I am going to be able to implement at the end of the day, as all this plugin does is to create a temporary non-Steam shortcut in a way that is convenient and transparent to the user. Any additional information, debug logs, or notes you are able to provide me can go a long way in getting a problem fixed. It makes me very happy to be able to share the efforts of all my work with all of you but at the end of the day, if you really want an issue that is important to you fixed, putting in just a little time yourself to investigate the issue and provide me with a little bit of background may be the difference between the problem remaining in limbo and the problem getting fixed.

    With all of that being said, perhaps you might be willing to look into whether or not Origin games in general work with the Steam overlay? If not, probably the only solution is going to be something such as GlosC as others have mentioned in reference to UWP/Window Store games. Sorry if my response was a little more direct than usual but I have been very busy and stressed out with work stuff lately and I just haven't had nearly as much time to dedicate to the plugin as I would like. The point of my response was just to indicate that any help I could get from any of you that would make it quicker/easier for me to fix issues (that are fixable) would really go a long ways. Let me know what you find out in regards to Origin games and the Steam overlay and I will try to look into it if I can.

    That makes perfect sense honestly.  I wonder if we should compile a list of easy work arounds.  For instance Origin you just have to manually point LB at the EXE and it seems to work.

    Dim titles that aren't installed

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    51 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

    There is no way to dim as far as i know. You can turn on badges though, that will have a different icon depending on if the game is installed or not.

    I enabled badges and selected a few but they aren't showing up.  Am I missing something?

    Dim titles that aren't installed

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    I just imported every game I have access to from everywhere and that means a LOT of games that aren't installed.

    I checked the settings and looked through the plugins sections but I couldn't find anyway to 'dim' titles that aren't 'installed'

    Is it possible to do?  I'd like to easily see what's installed and not installed while scrolling if possible.

     

    Is this doable?

    SteamLauncher

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    On 3/30/2021 at 6:50 PM, fromlostdays said:

    Not me! But I have this "weird friend" who will buy a game and spend so much time messing around with the controls until they are *perfect* that he won't even feel like playing the game. It's me. I do this. 

     

    I probably modded Morrowind for 500 hours and played it for like 20.

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    SteamLauncher

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    On 1/25/2021 at 10:24 AM, mrdead said:

    Yeah. So after further testing it's only doing this with Retroarch.
    AND I got a different error in the log today.
     

    EDIT: On further further testing Retroarch seems to be the problem, not your plugin. Back to the mines. 

    
2021-01-25 10:08:08 [Warning] [Config] [LoadConfigOrDefaults] - The config file was not found. Loading defaults.
2021-01-25 10:09:24 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.

     

    So just to close the loop on my own admittedly stupid issue just in case somebody else has the same problem:
    These errors happen if you don't have the right cores set up in RetroArch in LaunchBox. Which wasn't a thing I knew you had to do.

    SteamLauncher

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted · Edited by mrdead

    12 hours ago, Lahma said:

    @mrdead Are you using this version of the plugin?

    SteamLauncher Alpha v0.9.7.3
    http://bit.ly/SLv0973

    Yeah. So after further testing it's only doing this with Retroarch.
    AND I got a different error in the log today.
     

    EDIT: On further further testing Retroarch seems to be the problem, not your plugin. Back to the mines. 

    2021-01-25 10:08:08 [Warning] [Config] [LoadConfigOrDefaults] - The config file was not found. Loading defaults.
2021-01-25 10:09:24 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.

     

    SteamLauncher

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    Hey @Lahma,

    I an't seem to launch any emulators anymore.  Everything looks like it should work and they work when I turn steamlauncher off.

    Here's my log.  It's failing to find some object...

      

    2020-09-24 21:37:35 [Warning] [Config] [LoadConfigOrDefaults] - The config file was not found. Loading defaults.
2020-09-24 21:38:16 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [FixLbGameStartupWindowZOrder] - Could not fix the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window z order because no valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-24 21:38:16 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-24 21:38:16 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [TryShowWindow] - Failed to show the main game window due to an invalid or missing window handle: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'windowHandle')
2020-09-24 21:38:18 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-24 21:42:09 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [FixLbGameStartupWindowZOrder] - Could not fix the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window z order because no valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-24 21:42:09 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-24 21:42:09 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [TryShowWindow] - Failed to show the main game window due to an invalid or missing window handle: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'windowHandle')
2020-09-24 21:42:11 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-24 21:56:38 [Warning] [Config] [LoadConfigOrDefaults] - The config file was not found. Loading defaults.
2020-09-24 21:58:32 [Warning] [Config] [LoadConfigOrDefaults] - The config file was not found. Loading defaults.
2020-09-24 22:00:59 [Warning] [Config] [LoadConfigOrDefaults] - The config file was not found. Loading defaults.
2020-09-24 22:09:44 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [FixLbGameStartupWindowZOrder] - Could not fix the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window z order because no valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-24 22:09:44 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-24 22:09:44 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [TryShowWindow] - Failed to show the main game window due to an invalid or missing window handle: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'windowHandle')
2020-09-24 22:09:46 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-26 10:54:53 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2020-09-26 10:58:59 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [FixLbGameStartupWindowZOrder] - Could not fix the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window z order because no valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-26 10:58:59 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-26 10:58:59 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [TryShowWindow] - Failed to show the main game window due to an invalid or missing window handle: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'windowHandle')
2020-09-26 10:59:01 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-26 10:59:03 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [FixLbGameStartupWindowZOrder] - Could not fix the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window z order because no valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-26 10:59:03 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-26 10:59:03 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [TryShowWindow] - Failed to show the main game window due to an invalid or missing window handle: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'windowHandle')
2020-09-26 10:59:05 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-26 12:30:34 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2020-09-27 19:37:13 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [FixLbGameStartupWindowZOrder] - Could not fix the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window z order because no valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-27 19:37:13 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-27 19:37:13 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [TryShowWindow] - Failed to show the main game window due to an invalid or missing window handle: Sequence contains no elements
2020-09-27 19:37:15 [Error] [ProxyEmulator] [ShowHideLbStartupWindow] - Could not change the visibility of the LaunchBox game startup/shutdown window. No valid window handle could be found.
2020-09-28 10:09:35 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2020-09-28 13:19:38 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2020-09-28 20:18:08 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2020-09-28 21:17:26 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments string from SteamLauncherProxy.
2020-10-09 08:07:13 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2020-10-09 18:09:56 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2020-12-17 03:50:01 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2021-01-22 08:58:25 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 08:58:25 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 08:58:33 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 08:58:33 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 08:58:44 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 08:58:44 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 08:59:52 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2021-01-22 09:00:30 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:00:30 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:19:59 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:19:59 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:20:10 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:20:10 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:20:33 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:20:33 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:23:56 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Failed to get proxy arguments because no proxy process was found.
2021-01-22 09:24:31 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:24:31 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:26:23 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:26:23 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:26:30 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:26:30 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:27:50 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:27:50 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:28:36 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:28:36 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:30:44 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:30:44 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:31:21 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:31:21 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:36:23 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:36:23 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:47:32 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:47:32 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:56:57 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:56:57 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:57:21 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:57:21 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 09:59:25 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 09:59:25 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 10:00:16 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 10:00:16 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2021-01-22 10:01:43 [Error] [SteamContext] [InitClientShortcutsInterface] - Failed to retrieve a valid ClientShortcuts interface address. Aborting initialization.
2021-01-22 10:01:43 [Error] [GameLaunchingPlugin] [OnAfterGameLaunched] - An error occurred while creating/launching the Steam shortcut: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

     

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