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Title: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: _Tak_ on May 03, 2012, 05:26:40 pm
Before that patch i can see that for example I am playing Mount and blade :Warband. Now when i play the game i can only see i am online (shows no game icon or anything)

Now when i open crpg launcher in steam it doesn't do the game overlay anymore. (100% the option is on for game overlay).

i want it back plz help
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: gazda on May 03, 2012, 05:30:48 pm
same thing happens to me
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Aseplhood on May 03, 2012, 05:35:54 pm
Same here ._.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: [ptx] on May 03, 2012, 05:36:41 pm
That's because cRPG aint fully ported to the newest version of warband yet and technical stuff happens.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: gazda on May 03, 2012, 05:58:43 pm
technical stuff happens.

nuff said
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Digglez on May 03, 2012, 11:36:11 pm
as long as you arent playing DTV or rageball, just launch WARBAND from steam instead of using CRPG launcher.

You'll get error messages starting up but just keep clicking.  Doing stuff like msg to admin will also give u error msgs but it still goes thru
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Phazey on May 04, 2012, 02:39:34 pm
I just added the crpg launcher as a non steam game and called it "Mount & Blade: Warband cRPG". That seems to work.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: gazda on May 04, 2012, 02:47:35 pm
I just added the crpg launcher as a non steam game and called it "Mount & Blade: Warband cRPG". That seems to work.

BUT THEN I DONT GET ACHIEVEMENTS

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Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Phazey on May 04, 2012, 03:02:26 pm
Hmm maybe try naming it exactly the same as the regular steam warband? Does that work?
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Mlekce on May 04, 2012, 03:06:24 pm
move warband folder  to stamapps/common folder. tell me if it works!
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: _Tak_ on May 04, 2012, 03:08:00 pm
Hmm maybe try naming it exactly the same as the regular steam warband? Does that work?

doesn;t work  :cry:


move warband folder  to stamapps/common folder. tell me if it works!

when you install warband via steam its already there
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Mlekce on May 04, 2012, 03:11:46 pm
dunno what you want then i dont understand you. you need to put your game into steam folder. if it is not in steam folder it will not show that you are in game.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Patoson on May 04, 2012, 03:25:28 pm
The thing is that Steam has its own game files, different from the ones you get with the installer from Taleworlds, I assume. So, unless you launch the executable file that Steam downloaded, the Steam game won't be launched.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Phazey on May 04, 2012, 03:37:14 pm
Yah, something changed recently and 'broke' steam cRPG detection. It used to detect warband being launched when you played cRPG. Now it doesn't anymore.

As a temporary work around i use the 'add as a non-steam game' trick i mentioned earlier, but it doesn't add any more 'time played' and achievements and such for warband on your steam profile. However, it does show i'm playing cRPG on my friends list when i do, so that at least is nice.

Dunno how to fix that. Open to any suggestions. Anyone got an idea?
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: _Tak_ on May 04, 2012, 05:32:47 pm
Yah, something changed recently and 'broke' steam cRPG detection. It used to detect warband being launched when you played cRPG. Now it doesn't anymore.

As a temporary work around i use the 'add as a non-steam game' trick i mentioned earlier, but it doesn't add any more 'time played' and achievements and such for warband on your steam profile. However, it does show i'm playing cRPG on my friends list when i do, so that at least is nice.


This is what i mean  :)
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Kirbyy on May 08, 2012, 04:02:21 am
So when you add it to a non-steam game do you just say to use "launch c-rpg.exe" ?
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Troyicide on May 08, 2012, 04:24:16 am
Yes . you go that route if you choose to use WSE launcher with steam version or without it. If you have steam MB you can just launch the game without the WSE and will show as a steam game.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Turboflex on May 08, 2012, 04:30:27 pm
If you launch crpg through warband the steam overlay works. It will give you a few errors that you can ignore. apparently it will mess things up if you play rageball or DTV tho, but works fine for other modes (not sure about strategus battles).
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: _Tak_ on May 08, 2012, 10:02:01 pm
If you launch crpg through warband the steam overlay works. It will give you a few errors that you can ignore. apparently it will mess things up if you play rageball or DTV tho, but works fine for other modes (not sure about strategus battles).

THE PROBLEMS is that i play rage ball and DTV :( :(
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Patoson on May 09, 2012, 12:19:46 am
Just add cRPGLauncher.exe to your Steam library and use that. It won't be like playing the original Steam game, but you can use the Steam overlay to chat and all.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: _Tak_ on May 09, 2012, 12:28:53 am
Just add cRPGLauncher.exe to your Steam library and use that. It won't be like playing the original Steam game, but you can use the Steam overlay to chat and all.

i did that, run the game fine but it will not say In game Mount and blade: warband. instead it will say CRPG launcher. Change name? Yes i did that but i will never get achievement and stuff from normal warband ;(
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Phazey on May 09, 2012, 02:58:42 pm
i did that, run the game fine but it will not say In game Mount and blade: warband. instead it will say CRPG launcher. Change name? Yes i did that but i will never get achievement and stuff from normal warband ;(

You won't get that any achievements for warband when playing cRPG anyways. You only get 'x hours played'.

Just rename the 'cRPG launcher' to 'Mount & Blade: Warband cRPG' by right-clicking it in your steam libary, choosing properties and editing the name.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Grumbs on May 09, 2012, 04:52:35 pm
If you launch crpg through warband the steam overlay works. It will give you a few errors that you can ignore. apparently it will mess things up if you play rageball or DTV tho, but works fine for other modes (not sure about strategus battles).

If I do this the sound is messed up on battle.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Vrael on May 27, 2012, 08:47:11 pm
I have this problem:

I add "cRPGLauncher" as a non-steam game to my library, and start the launcher via steam. My profile changes to "In the non-steam game cRPGLauncher", but when I then press "Play Warband" and M&B menu appears, my profile status goes back to "Online", and stays as that when I play the game, and I can't open the steam overlay etc.

Any ideas on how to fix this?
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Aseplhood on May 27, 2012, 09:05:47 pm
Is the same for me.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Zaren on May 28, 2012, 09:13:46 am
Just add cRPGLauncher.exe to your Steam library and use that. It won't be like playing the original Steam game, but you can use the Steam overlay to chat and all.
doesnt work for me... i dont get the overlay and it doesnt see that im running a non steam game... wonder why
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on May 29, 2012, 06:23:45 pm
also if you dont use the launcher you can still use weapons secondary modes, but it won't show them "turned around" for you.  Also you can whistle for horses, but they won't come to you.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Phazey on May 29, 2012, 09:13:18 pm
Just tested and checked again, to be sure. Steam overlay does work for me in cRPG:

I added the cRPGlauncher.exe to my steam (In my case "D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\mountblade warband\cRPGLauncher.exe" -a) and then i changed the name of the cRPGlauncher in steam to Mount & Blade: Warband cRPG.

I think that's all i did. I do run Steam as administrator by default and i'm using windows 7 64 bit. Maybe that's it.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Auphilia on May 30, 2012, 03:35:41 am
Did everything you did, and doesn't work for me. Same OS too.  :|
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: dodnet on May 30, 2012, 09:52:53 am
I added the cRPGlauncher.exe to my steam (In my case "D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\mountblade warband\cRPGLauncher.exe" -a) and then i changed the name of the cRPGlauncher in steam to Mount & Blade: Warband cRPG.

It's working for me too. I have steam installed to a different folder like you (e:\games\Steam in my case), so it might not work if steam is installed in the default location "c:\program files"-whatever.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Phazey on May 30, 2012, 11:18:59 am
I'm getting reports from friends trying the same trick for Day Z (we use the Six Launcher for that, simmilar to cRPG's launcher) and failing. Might be a Steam issue... I'm guessing it has something to do with how you have things set up.

Perhaps you can experiment, see what causes it not to work. Maybe try adding another non-steam game and see if you can get the overlay to work for that.

Most obvious one is running steam as as admin: go to your steam folder, right click on Steam.exe, click the Compatibility tab, check the "Run this program as an administrator" box and then hit "OK".

There might also be certain applications (some AV's, Xfire and some other programs) interfering with the steam overlay:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9394-YOFV-0014
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Suckus Khan on June 29, 2012, 04:51:04 am
My problem here is that it doesnt credit me for hours played anymore. It hasn't in several months (actually I think this has always been an issue since the launcher started) Anyway we can fix that?
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: Christo on June 29, 2012, 04:58:03 am
Don't think so, unless cmp ports it to the newest version.
Title: Re: How can i make mount and blade warband appear in steam?
Post by: justjr on June 29, 2012, 05:06:53 am
Well, the problem is the exe name, its renamed so it can coexist with the original exe. And the cRPG launcher will not use the original named exe, what probably means that if you rename the old warband to the original name, the launcher will not use it, because of the name.
And steam will not launch with the wrong exe name, not recording time played, achievements, and using the overlay.
Yes you can add as a non steam game and use the overlay, but really the overlay is the least important thing to me.
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