Urgent! Initial Launch Supply of SWTOR Is Limited

[Tbone]

Origin can burn in a fiery hell. I would always condone avoiding Origin at ANY cost. In fact I boycotted BF3 over it.

That seems a little harsh.

On a similar note, we're trying to find a way to get SWTOR to run on Steam. Currently you can load the game via Steam, but once the launcher closes and the actually game loads up, Steam thinks you've closed out and you lose the interface.

[Lithium]

Steam thinks you've closed out and you lose the interface.

Thanks to EA for a cleaver bit of script code to deter the use of Steam and promote Origin usage ONLY.

[Tbone]

No that's standard in all games with a launcher (mostly MMOs). The launcher closes when the game opens. It's the beta client, so I don't think EA has touched it yet.

[Longboard]

Origin can burn in a fiery hell. I would always condone avoiding Origin at ANY cost. In fact I boycotted BF3 over it.

Why? What is the scoop?

[Lithium]

Because they are trying to compete with Steam and I hate EA, therefore I honor the 100x better product, Steam.

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

No that's standard in all games with a launcher (mostly MMOs). The launcher closes when the game opens. It's the beta client, so I don't think EA has touched it yet.

Yeah but there are several games I have that steam will work if the game has a launcher. It for sure works with wow.

[Ghisteslwchlohm]

I came up with a solution to this problem. Rename a program as SWTOR, then when you play SWTOR run the program so it keeps steam saying you're in the game.

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

I came up with a solution to this problem. Rename a program as SWTOR, then when you play SWTOR run the program so it keeps steam saying you're in the game.

I don't think that allows you to use the overlay does it? The overlay is the reason why you would want to use it with steam.

[Valkyris]

Update on My Status: Pre-ordered CE (as of thanksgiving day Best Buy still had some CE, but its been quite a while since then).  Got my code taken care-of, and I am confirmed for the 5 day early launch (I called in and waited for 30 min, through people with their secret word thingy's, but I was told by someone at bioware that I am confirmed for the 5 days early, it seems most people will likely be there but I'm not sure).  So I will see you all bright and late 12/14

[Ketamininja]

No that's standard in all games with a launcher (mostly MMOs). The launcher closes when the game opens. It's the beta client, so I don't think EA has touched it yet.

Yeah but there are several games I have that steam will work if the game has a launcher. It for sure works with wow.

Yeah, it's a threading thing.
Steam needs to know about any child processes that may spawn from the parent. I guess there would be a config file somewhere for most game that have a "launcher" so that Steam knows to keep track; I would be surprised if the app attempted to monitor any processes that might be forked off since it doesn't recognise SWTOR is launched.


I had a quick look at the Steam directory, but can't see any plain text files that might contain this data; I did find some plain text files that looked like they had been "steam formatted", but I couldn't see that it tracked child launches.

 I also checked the registry, but coudn't find anything that might do the job quickly. Perhaps some google searching might turn up some hacks for any game that Steam doesn't support. I guess people have looked at this in the past?


Some chat here:
www.swtor.com/fr/community/showthread.php?t=707860&page=1
http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/mq1d7/can_you_use_the_steam_overlay_with_tor_how/


My guess is that any workaround my have issues any time the client is patched. Anyway, I guess we wont be able to test any solutions until 15th at least!