Is it possible to switch to Steam Game Launcher?


Amish_Justice

 

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I downloaded the NCSoft game launcher a couple months ago, and to be honest, I kinda hate it. I only use it for City of heroes, and it seems a needless step/use of resources. I was actually considering trying to go back to the original launch mechanism, but that's apparently being phased out early next month.

I do, however, play a lot of other games on Steam, and I noticed that City of Heroes is available through the Steam launcher.

Anyone have any idea if I can somehow transfer my account over to Steam, and then just use their one launcher for all my gaming needs?


 

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Blarg... logout bug ate my post...

I thought steam just launched the updater anyway... and the only way I know to get the proper steam CoH library page is if you buy a version though them. And they now only offer one version, Going Rogue (which is good, cuts down on new player confusion). So if you already have GR on your account, you're out of luck unless you have a secondary account you can apply it to (or want to make one).

But if you want City if Heroes in your Steam Library, and be able to open the Steam overlay while playing CoH:

  1. At the top, under 'Games', click "Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library...",
  2. Click 'Browse', go to your City of Heroes directory, and open Cityofheroes.exe,
  3. Right click on the new entry in your library and select 'properties'
  4. Change the name (first text box) to whatever you want (This is what's displayed to friends when steam informs them "[name] is now playing [game]")
  5. In the 'Target' box, change it so it looks like
    Code:
    "[path]\cityofheroes.exe" -project coh
  6. add in whatever other things you use, like "-maxinactivefps 5"
  7. Launch the game though your shiny new steam shortcut.
Note that you must still use the launcher to update the game after a patch. But after it updates, you can close that and use steam.

Also, if the updater using resources while you play is an issue, under File > Settings, you can change the 'After launching a game:' drop-down to "Exit Launcher". I think there also might be commands to add to the shortcut that will make it automatically launch CoH (provided it doesn't have to update) when you run the launcher, but I'm not familiar with them.


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Steam just launches the NCSoft launcher. And currently, it won't have the overlay show up on the actual game.


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Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper View Post
I think there also might be commands to add to the shortcut that will make it automatically launch CoH (provided it doesn't have to update) when you run the launcher, but I'm not familiar with them.
If memory serves, right-clicking a game in the launcher will give you the option to create a desktop shortcut. Combined with auto-close-on-startup, you can start playing in a single click. Well, two... stupid EULA-every-login...


 

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Originally Posted by Quinch View Post
If memory serves, right-clicking a game in the launcher will give you the option to create a desktop shortcut. Combined with auto-close-on-startup, you can start playing in a single click. Well, two... stupid EULA-every-login...
Boo hoo? You do a single click later vs a double click sooner? We've always had the Eula every login (Unless you were bypassing the updater before)


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