Steam Overlay not working.

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Hey,

I have recently bought Demigod, and I want to play it through steam, with the Steam Overlay, but I assume that the Impulse Overlay interrupts the key capturing, and it results in only the Impulse Overlay working. Is there any way to cancel that, so that I can use the steam overlay? It's how most of my gaming friends communicate, and having multiple overlays seems like a waste of time and effort.

Thanks.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

I too, have this problem. It also seems to cause problems with the Impulse overlay as it sometimes doesn't appear or refuses to disappear.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Try launching Demigod through the exe, and closing Impulse. The Impulse Overlay can't catch the key captures if the process isn't running.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I launch it through steam, Impulse isn't active, I can't find any process related to impulse either.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

I don't think you are going to get much support there =P

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Graylorde, reply 4
I don't think you are going to get much support there =P
End of Graylorde's quote

Yeah, maybe there are some launch options I'm not aware of.

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

I found if I re-bound the steam overlay trigger to something other than shift + tab I could get it to open up the overlay, unfortunately I can then only do mouse driven tasks which cuts down a lot of functionality...  

I'm going to test it with a friend sometime soon and hopefully we can get voice chat working.

 

Happy to report that x-fire works without trouble, so there is 'some' hope of getting steam to work, however I suspect that stardock is actively opposed to us using it given that it's the established competition.

 

Hopefully after impulse gets itself a user base and sorts out its many many issues they can approach steam and x-fire to talk about a standard gaming portal communication mechanism (like how the IM clients eventually got federation) and then we can use our impulse client to talk to our steam buddies and vice versa.