Steam for dummies?

[DJ Infinity]

OK,

After searching the forums and trying to find a solution for Steam so I can progress with setting up Game Ex. I have ever come to a dead stop. Anyone have a simple way for Steam to work in Game Ex? Or maybe point me to a forum post that I may have overlooked. I've tried the post about renaming the one file in steam and deleting the files concerning Steam in Game Ex. Restart Game Ex and still only 2 games show up.

 

[Tom Speirs]

It should be automatic. No complexity involved. Maybe something got changed in a new version of the Steam client.

[DazzleHP]

16 minutes ago, Tom Speirs said:

It should be automatic. No complexity involved. Maybe something got changed in a new version of the Steam client.

 

Exactly. Literally all you need to do is enter your username in the GameEx Wizard in the appropriate section IRRC.

[DJ Infinity]

1 hour ago, Tom Speirs said:

It should be automatic. No complexity involved. Maybe something got changed in a new version of the Steam client.

Ahhh. That could very well be the issue. It's always updating.

[DJ Infinity]

Well since we have ascertained it's something in Steam. What files do u have to manually edit to get the games to show and work?

[Tom Speirs]

Again, it should be seamless. If something got broken in a steam update then you need to wait for me to fix it. if its an issue on your end then you should post your log. You don't need a guide

[DJ Infinity]

13 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

Again, it should be seamless. If something got broken in a steam update then you need to wait for me to fix it. if its an issue on your end then you should post your log. You don't need a guide

Well Tom,

Thanx but if it's something simple like editing a few files I don't mind really. I can get the run ID(s) from the desktop shortcuts. I just need to know what to edit

[Tom Speirs]

Its not though

[DJ Infinity]

34 minutes ago, Tom Speirs said:

Its not though

Oh 

[Draco1962]

I think seeing your gameex.ini and log.txt files will be of help for Tom to review. 

Please attach them in reply. Thanks! 

[DJ Infinity]

Well Im at work now. Im gonna install game ex on this machine here. I do have a few of my steam games on it. But I saw another thread when someone was making batch files for steam so im gonna try that approach. *UPDATE* got Game Ex installed it shows 4 out of 11 installed steam games. Better than my game machine at home that only shows 2

GameEx.ini

log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

I see a lot of this in the log:

Invalid or filtered path:

 

Are you able to indentify what those games are?

[DJ Infinity]

Actually yes I can. I dunno why it says invalid or filtered path. it's the default steam setup path C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common. but all games reside there. and this one is from my game machine at home. I could manually edit if I knew where and what files to edit.

GameEx.ini

log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Ill do a fresh steam install here and test. See if its just you or not.

Cheers.

Tom

[DJ Infinity]

Thanx Tom. Plz let me know. So I can fix whatever I may have messed up somewhere. 

[Tom Speirs]

Is there a particular game that is not showing up that is not too expensive to buy?

[DJ Infinity]

Well let's put it this way. I have 52 games installed most I got on sale. Only two show up.  The cheapest game in my library is $19.99. I lied. The 7th Guest and 11th hour bundle is $9.99. Are all yours showing up? If so are you using the default Steam install?

[Tom Speirs]

Working fine here.

[Draco1962]

Has anyone addressed Run as admin for the GameEx and Steam exe's? Also full read/write access on the GameEx folder and subfolders? Deleting the cache files?

[DJ Infinity]

looks like the built in steam is going to be a no go here for some reason. ill try another solution found on a couple of threads down.

[RedDog]

@DJ Infinity What drive is Steam installed on and what drive (or drives) are your Steam game folders installed on? I seam to recall an issue a while back with games on the non-default games folder not being listed in GameEx's Steam game list.

I got the impression that an old version of Steam did not relay important bits of info on those games to GameEx. I do not recall this issue coming up in quite a while.

 

I should add that I also checked my Steam library against GameEx and all of my installs are listed. This is across two steam game folders on two drives...but my PC was reloaded about a year ago and all of the games were installed after my very first GameEx was installed on this PC.

[DJ Infinity]

default steam install sir. I think ima hafta revert back to a older version of Game Ex. Because nothing is working now. I tried t get Daphne to work. despite being enabled it doesnt show up in Game Ex. Maybe I should uninstall and reinstall. Tom says Steam works out the box. But on both machines Win 8.1 & 10 Pro 64 Bit. Im hitting a lot of roadblocks. On earlierr versions of Game Ex simple configurations could be done and everything worked. I guess I'll wait on Evolution to be released. Maybe I'll have better luck with it. 

[Tom Speirs]

I will try that game and see if I can duplicate the issue.

PS: I don't believe earlier versions of GameEx have better Daphne or Steam support.

[DJ Infinity]

Tom,

This is what I did to get Daphne to show up and work. I found my old Game Ex install off my old computer I copied the contents of the Daphne section of the Game Ex.ini and edited the drive positions. The old was G:\Emulators\Daphne. Current is C:\Emulation\Daphne. For some reason I don't think the .ini file is being written to correctly. I don't know if it is a Windows Pro 64 Bit issue or not. Maybe thats why only 2 out of my 50 Steam Games show up. I got Steam working using that UGL program from another thread. I dont care for it but eh it works.

[DJ Infinity]

After Uninstalling and reinstalling Game Ex. And starting from scratch I'm still getting only 2 out of 50 games ugh. LOL.