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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0001864 | AI War 1 / Classic | Suggestion | Dec 6, 2010 4:44 pm | Jan 3, 2011 11:44 am | |
| Reporter | dumpsterKEEPER | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | closed | Resolution | not fixable | ||
| Product Version | 4.045 | ||||
| Summary | 0001864: Game patcher doesn't relaunch with Steamworks enabled | ||||
| Description | As the title says, when you launch the update process from within the game with Steamworks enabled and then allow the patcher to re-launch the game at the end of the update process, it does not start back up with Steamworks enabled. It would be helpful if the patcher recognized that it was launched from a Steamworks enabled game and re-launched the game as such. This is a fairly minor issue, but it's bitten me a couple of times where I didn't notice that it happened and went to utilize a Steamworks feature and discovered that it wasn't available. | ||||
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Unfortunately, due to the nature of how Steam works, it's not possible for us to do this. :/ To get the steamworks stuff, you have to launch it from Steam directly. In the past, that was not the case and we could use a special flag to enable steamworks stuff, but for the overlay to work properly that has to be made before the OpenGL/DirectX init calls. In the case of Unity 3D, our code doesn't have control until after the OpenGL/DirectX init calls, which means we can't directly invoke the Steamworks UI, it can only come from the hook inserted by launching the game directly out of Steam. |
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Ah, I'd wondered about that. I remembered the flag that used to be there, and I was hoping that it would still be able to work. I suppose Steam is probably not optimized for games that are patching themselves externally like this. |
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Well, it's technically not even a Steam issue. They provide ALL the tools we would normally need to make this work. The problem is that with the Unity 3D engine, we can't inject arbitrary code wherever we want (ie, before OpenGL/DirectX are initialized). |
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Oh I see, that makes sense; I misread what you originally typed. Thanks for the explanation! |
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Sure thing! |
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Wouldn't it be possible to send the steam flag to the patcher and have it start AI War using Steam instead of starting it directly from the .exe? |
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There are various commandline ways to do it, however not everyone uses Steam, and the commandline options are (afaik) platform dependent also (Not everyone uses Windows). |
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I believe those options would also vary by install path. And we can't put true code in the patched itself, as that's just a super simple scripting interface -- I hesitate to even call it that -- that's part of bitrock install builder. So it's pretty much a no go. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Dec 6, 2010 4:44 pm | dumpsterKEEPER | New Issue | |
| Dec 6, 2010 4:47 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0005433 | |
| Dec 6, 2010 4:47 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => resolved |
| Dec 6, 2010 4:47 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => not fixable |
| Dec 6, 2010 4:47 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Dec 6, 2010 4:59 pm | dumpsterKEEPER | Note Added: 0005437 | |
| Dec 6, 2010 5:14 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0005439 | |
| Dec 6, 2010 5:37 pm | dumpsterKEEPER | Note Added: 0005443 | |
| Dec 6, 2010 5:39 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0005445 | |
| Dec 28, 2010 10:52 am | Oralordos | Note Added: 0007155 | |
| Dec 28, 2010 1:50 pm | leb0fh | Note Added: 0007159 | |
| Dec 28, 2010 2:36 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0007160 | |
| Jan 3, 2011 11:44 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | resolved => closed |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - General Idea => Suggestion - General |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - General => Suggestion |
