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Steam won’t take focus after other games played and closed


Sureshoe

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If I start BigBox and go to Windows and run Dragons Lair through Steam, it launches ok.

If I start BigBox, run a Mame game and close or run SNES and close (or any emulator), when I go to run Steam - I press play and Steam (Dragons Lair specifically) launches in the background.  BigBox is locked up and unresponsive, but has focus.  I can hear Dragons Lair in the background and if I ALT-TAB, I can see it, but even selecting it, BigBox stays in focus and unresponsive.  

If I use the mouse to right-click-close, BigBox becomes responsive.

Any suggestions on settings to play with?  The other emulators close for sure and work great.  And Steam works if it is the first/only app launches from BigBox.  It returns focus on exit/etc but only when it’s the sole app.

I have had to do some video card fiddling, so I’ll try somebody other Steam apps soon, just not had the chance .

 

 

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Added Alien Swarm and Team Fortress just to test, but they don’t appear in Big Box thru Steam API import.  

So I found you can add the game directly.  

Running Dragons Lair outside of Steam, as a direct Exe call seems to fix this.  I can’t get those other Steam games to run but don’t care.  

 

TLDR: don’t run games thru Steam 

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On 9/29/2019 at 10:10 PM, Sureshoe said:

If I start BigBox and go to Windows and run Dragons Lair through Steam, it launches ok.

If I start BigBox, run a Mame game and close or run SNES and close (or any emulator), when I go to run Steam - I press play and Steam (Dragons Lair specifically) launches in the background.  BigBox is locked up and unresponsive, but has focus.  I can hear Dragons Lair in the background and if I ALT-TAB, I can see it, but even selecting it, BigBox stays in focus and unresponsive.  

If I use the mouse to right-click-close, BigBox becomes responsive.

Any suggestions on settings to play with?  The other emulators close for sure and work great.  And Steam works if it is the first/only app launches from BigBox.  It returns focus on exit/etc but only when it’s the sole app.

I have had to do some video card fiddling, so I’ll try somebody other Steam apps soon, just not had the chance .

 

My problem solved this fix https://geeksadvice.com/fix-steam-wont-open/

 

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