[RESOLVED] Steam crashing as soon as game boots up?

[Sebastian1314]

Hello all! I'm new to the forum here, yet have been working on my GameEx setup for some time now. I must say it is quite the awesome FE! I have the registered version and was having some troubles with Steam games. For pretty much any Steam game (like Geometry Wars:RE), what happens is this:

I click the game on the GameEx Steam page

The screen goes dark

The Steam login page shows up (I have auto-logon set to on)

The offline prompt comes up (I'm running my setup offline since I don't have a WLAN card for it)

I hit the play offline button

The game boots up for a split second

The game quits and steam says "Waiting for <game name> to shut down"

Then I'm back at the GameEx screen. I'm running Steam in big picture mode also (just to make it a bit more cab-friendly if I ever need to navigate the menus, so I'm not sure if that's a problem there.

Any ideas or help would be much appreciated! Thanks for reading!

Sebastian1314

[Tom Speirs]

It might be that it is running in Big Picture mode. Ive never tried setting it permanently. Ive also never tested in offline mode. That might be an issue I can't resolve. It sounds like that is the issue to be honest.

Try disabling it and its also important that the overlay/in game is enabled in Steam.

If that does not help post the gameex log.

[DazzleHP]

In my experience, and i've tested this quite a bit, Big Picture can cause all sorts of problems when used with GameEx. You get a lot of focus issues, and sometimes even process watched problems. My advice is - disable Big Picture. Also i've found that in Offline Mode it's best to launch Steam with GameEx, in the Steam Client itself set to auto-login (remember) and tell GameEx to NOT login/logout. That way Steam will always be loaded ready, and GameEx just launches the games.

In my experience this is the most fluid method

[Sebastian1314]

I offer my gratitude to you both for the fast responses and great suggestions! I disabled Big Picture mode and it works like a charm now. Cheers and thanks again!