Steam Overlay wasn’t working ingame
Checked Steam to see if I still had it enabled for War Thunder and I do
But the problem is…
Steam has stopped recognizing War Thunder as running when you go through the launcher.
I am ingame as we speak and took that screenshot while ingame. Steam thinks it’s not running.
Yes I launched through Steam
I alway choose “launch manual game update” so that I get the launcher window so I never miss any small updates/patches.
Once I hit “play” from the launcher window, the splash screen comes up and Steam immediately reverts back to “play” in green from “running” in blue.
Steam and War Thunder always had this issue, for example if you tried to stop the game through the Steam page, you can’t, despite it saying “Stopping” it nevers closes the game, so you have to do it manually.
As the Launcher tend to work on dreams and hopes, I’d suggest you changing the Start Up method to “Play War Thunder”. I don’t think there are any reasons to use the Launcher to open the game when you installed it from Steam.
If you need to access advanced configuration settings just open the config.blk in the game’s root files. Any minor patches is automatically installed when you open Steam or when you leave a game and there’s the available Update button, honestly, the Launcher is waste of time when you use it on Steam.
You don’t need to use the launcher to update the game? I know Steam updates it, but for me, it would always do an update in the launcher AFTER Steam did. I don’t have to do that?
Steam always keeps my game updated. Sometimes I’ll notice there’s an update scheduled in the Download queue and I’ll manually launch the download, but mainly I check the Download section and I’ll see that an update was automatically downloaded. The only time I ever use the WT launcher is when I’m troubleshooting something, just to make sure it’s not a Steam-specific issue.
Steam overlay is extremely bugged with all games so I leave it off to begin with.
I know how it works with Steam, but I’m saying, even after Steam updates my War Thunder, the launcher will still also “Apply update” it made me think I had to do both.