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  1. My problem was solved by changing the config ini file. Hence now wrapper needed !!! I have documented the solution in my thread shown above!
  2. SSSSOOOOOOLLLLLLLLVVVVVVEEEEEEDDDDD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This post brought the solution!!!! Besides the fact that "Steam Overlay" should be activated in the general settings of Steam as well as in the game's settings, it seems to be necessary to edit the game's config ini file => \GameEx\MEDIA\STEAM\CONFIGS\<Steam-App-ID>.ini Dragon's Lair has the Steam-App-ID = 227380, hence the config ini file is: 227380.ini Originally it looked like [AppID_227380] hasbeenlaunched=true Following the solution of the posting mentioned above I changed it to: [AppID_227380] hasbeenlaunched=true overidewaitprocess=DragonsLair Where the value of overidewaitprocess is the name of the Steam Dragon's Lair executable with out the .exe file extension. I learned that there are different locations where Steam stores game executables. In my case the exe file is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dragon's Lair\DragonsLair.exe. After changing the config file it works like a charm! Thanks to the forum and thanks to YaZoR to document the solution!!! Cheers J.RCADE
  3. Thanks Draco for your attention, I was writing this while you responded hence I edited my post. I hope that the config will already do as wrappers seems to be much more sophisticated and I am not such a big techie to dig so deep into it. I found something that I will check tomorrow ... I will try this one tomorrow and take a closer look to the config file for Dragon's Lair. The behaviour mentioned in the corresponding thread looks equal to my issue that GameEx does not recognize when my game is really exiting ...
  4. Tom gave me a very promising advise on the Steam wrappers thread that I should check if Steam overlay is turned on => see this post Overlay was generally turned on in Steam and it was turned on in the individual game settings for my other game "Nidhogg" but it was NOT set for "Dragon's Lair". After activating I became euphoric when testing because the interval when the game exits has become longer ... BUT it still exits . The game consists of a lot of video clips being played one after anotherwith some joystick and or button interaction. It seems to me that GameEx exits during the loading phases for the next video clip. As the switchback to GameEx frontend is much quicker now, I can simply reenter the game when selecting "Play This Game" from the GameEx GUI. GameEx tries start Steam again though but Draogon's Lair is not restarted it just jumps back to the "paused" screen of the existing game and I can continue playing. This can be considered a workaround but the repeats every 1-3 minutes and kills the whole game atmosphere. Is there anything I can additionally do in the config file to emphasize that GameEx either recognizes better what the game does or just simply waits until the game is really over. I am happy for any new ideas :-) Cheers J. RCADE
  5. I checked theOverlay Settings in Steam and interestingly the Steam Overlay settings was turned on . The individual game overlay setting was turned on for Nidhogg and turned OFF for Dragon's Lair. I was euphoric when testing again. The behaviour is better but it still exists. I will switch to my thread that I opened for this problem: to keep this one for wrapper questions ...
  6. Hi Tom, thanks for your comment. I can confirm that my other game (Nidhogg) is working perfectly. They are both of the same kind arcade like games and of course I use the identical key/button/joystick layout for both games. Great to hear that there is another option with the config file. In my investigations I discovered this option as well but was not able to judge which way is the easier, more efficient way to follow to solve my problem. I will check if I find any documentation on how to use the config file and actually what to put into the config file to achieve that GameEx waits for the Dragon's Lair process. If you have any hint or link to point me to, I would kindly appreciate if you could help me to find a proper setup for the config file. I will update my original thread and post here if the config file path worked out. I will track the progress in my original thread and keep this here for wrapper related posts. Cheers J.RCADE
  7. I have bought it - June 2016 - quite a while after your announcement. I have issues when starting it through the GameEX frontend. GameEx exits the game unexpectedly. Does/Did anyone experience the same or similar behaviours?
  8. Hi Draco, thanks for your hint. I posted my problem into the "Steam Wrappers" thread but there hasn't been an update to this thread since november 2013. I hope it is still viewed ...
  9. Hello all, I have recently bought Dragon's Lair from Steam but there is a strange behaviour when starting via GameEx which makes me believe that I probably need a wrapper around it. I was guided to this thread and I hope that it is still viewed as the last entry is from Nov. 2013 ??? Before we go into detail let me ask if someone has probably already built a wrapper for the Steam game "Dragon's Lair" (Steam id: 227380) Otherwise please read my issue with the game: When starting the game via Steam directly or via the windows shortcut (made by Steam) or via the GameEx "runitgame.bat" manually from Windows Explorer everything works fine and I can play without any trouble. When starting the game out of the GameEX frontend I can work through all game menus as normal but when I start playing the game GameEx returns unexpectedly (no key press or an other indication) back to the front end and seems to exit the game. But looking closer the game receives an "Escape" sequence and gets paused and is just pushed to the background. When I quit GameEx I can bring the game back to foreground and pressing "Escape" to leave the "paused" state let's me continue playing from where GameEx has left the game. So it appears that GameEx considers the game by mistake to be over and sending some "exit codes" and returning to the front end. And I would expect from the wrapper to prevent the wrong interpretation and taking care that the game is entered and left appropriately. I would really kindly appreciate any response, idea, advise, support or solution. Thank you J.RCADE
  10. Ok, received a hint from Tom that my issue might be related to "wrappers". I will seek in the appropriate directories what is there for the Steam game 227380. Tom said I might need an individual wrapper ... so I have to learn how this works ... ... Investigating ... but greatful for any support and advise "how to" ...
  11. Ok, I tested on the weekend again. The new GameEx version did not solve the issue (as I did not expect it to do so ;-) ) and the "runitgame.bat" located in \gameex\DATA\ looks and works inconspicuously. Find below the content: > chcp 65001 c: CD "c:\program files (x86)\steam" steam.exe -applaunch 227380 < I can doubleclick the batch file from windows explorer and play with out any problems. I am convinced that logging the focus will not help as the game is not simply pushed to background due to losing its focus but it receives an "Esc" sequence as it is in the menu screen when accessing it (like someone has pressed the Escape key before pushing it to background. There must be something done actively by GameEx to pass the "Escape" sequence to the game ... It looks like GameEx considers the Game to be over sends some kind of kill signal and then changes the view back to the front end ... There must be something wrong in the behaviour how GameEx monitors the Steam game and how it interprets that it is over to change back to the front end. ( This is why I had like to try GameEx with Steam before buying :-( ... ) This needs to be debugged by someone who know what GameEx does here ... It is possible to return Steam games for 2 weeks when played less than 2 hours ... I am thinking about opening a support request. As the issue is obvious and should be quickly identified testing directly with the game allows to check out and debug the root cause at the source and aftwerwards the game can be returned to Steam without paying. I of course also offer to debug on my system as good as I can when I get some kind of debug code.
  12. Hi Darco, thanks for the new advise. I was busy with the wood work of my cabinet. I hope to finish it by the weekend and then start priming and painting ... Hence my PC was not running for one week and is currently using up its limited resources for MS security essentials and Windows update scans. I fear I have to run the PC all night before I can start testing the game as Dragon's Lair is currently very slow (also when starting from Steam directly). In the meatime a new version of GameEx was downloaded and installed ... so it changed quite a bit. I test as soon as I can and tell if it still fails and send the runitgame.bat ... It is located in my version of GameEx in \GameEx\DATA not in \gameex\utilities\ as documented in the link. Probably this changed ;-) ...
  13. Thank You! I downloaded it and will try it tonight. It might give some insight how and why but it is obvious that GameEx loses the connection to the game and/or Steam as well, as it returns back to the frontend. Isn't there any kind of debug mode that can be turned on in GameEx to see why it considers the game to be over and switching back to the GameEx frontend? Thanks for any new advise/idea! Cheers J.R.c.a.d.e.
  14. Hi there, any idea how to debug this. The log file does not show anything obvious. Can I set some kind of debug mode to find out, why the game gets set to pause mode and GameEx returns back to the menu eventhough the game still runs in background ??? Please, any idea is welcome !!! Cheers J.R.c.a.d.e.
  15. I made a new experience!!! When I disable automatic login/logout in the GameEX Steam settings and start Dragon's Lair I can play some seconds and the screen goes black but Steam logoff windows does NOT appear anymore. I get redirected back to the GameEx frontend. But with "Alt" + "Tab" I can see that Dragon's Lair is still there in "Paused" mode. I can not switch back to the game with "Alt" + "Tab" to resume playing as I always get then thrown back to the GameEX GUI. But when I am exiting GameEX via Exit normally I can switch now to the paused Dragon's Lair game resume and play it. But after ending the game I am back on windows desktop as I had to exit GameEx. So somehow the Game gets into Pause mode when started through GameEx and I can access it again, when I exit GameEx. WIth Nidhogg. I do not have this problem ??? log.txt GameEx.ini
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