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Steam Overlay doesn't work in Amnesia: The Dark Descent

steamclosed reviewedNot a bug
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#70 · opened 2012-12-20 by pwyliu · updated 2013-01-03 · 4 comments · github
Ppwyliu 2012-12-20 github

The Steam Overlay doesn't come up while playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The screenshot button also does not work.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Load game.
  2. Press shift+tab or F12. Nothing happens.
  3. Suffer from crippling terror because you are playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Hardware Information:

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 2394 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-19-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11300000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 1.4 (2.1.2 NVIDIA 310.19)
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0xfc6
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Primary Display Size: 20.43" x 12.76" (24.06" diag)
51.9cm x 32.4cm (61.1cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC888

Memory:
RAM: 7986 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_CA.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 104367 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 88601 Mb

Installed software:

Zzsdedan 2012-12-20 github

Confirm this.

Llxndr 2012-12-20 github

Steam overlay doesn't support 64bit games yet. Like a workaround I can suggest to edit run_steam.sh so it can start Amnesia.bin, the 32bit version.

Mmattyy1hp 2012-12-22 github

I can confirm this on Linux Mint 13 LTS 64bit.

Steam in-game overlay don't work.
Steam screenshots don't work.
Alt+tab switching windows don't work.
Volume up/down via keyboard don't work.

Vv2px 2012-12-23 github

I can confirm that the workaround enables the overlay in Amnesia.
The flipside of it is that you can't walk in the game after you used the overlay.

Nothing extracted yet.