Give me a sec, I had posted something along these lines not too long ago, I'll dig it up.
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Woah...thanks! Usually when someone makes a similar post they just tell me to go dig it up :P
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Now, since I haven't (yet?) bought CoH through steam, I don't have the "official" library page, but checking the "properties" of games I do own through steam, there seems to be no way to switch the link's target to a different executable, and creating a desktop shortcut through steam doesn't work any better. So unless you know your way around steam's interface better tham me (not hard), You may need to use the above "add non-steam game" method.
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Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper
But if you want City if Heroes in your Steam Library, and be able to open the Steam overlay while playing CoH:
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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I see. I'll mess around with it and see what I can do, thanks a bunch for the help!
Seems to work fine for me through Steam. Installed it last week, and it ran the NCSoft Launcher. There was a weird thing where there was a patch and Steam claimed the game was uninstalled. I patched through the NCSoft Launcher to be sure. Had to click install on Steam and it detected the new update without actually downloading anything.
Clicking play in steam launches the NCSoft Launcher, directly starts CoH, and seems to work fine. I get my steam overlay, and all the features with it, with no problem.
Win7 x64. Highly approve of the Steam integration so far.
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Originally Posted by Stele
Seems to work fine for me through Steam. Installed it last week, and it ran the NCSoft Launcher. There was a weird thing where there was a patch and Steam claimed the game was uninstalled. I patched through the NCSoft Launcher to be sure. Had to click install on Steam and it detected the new update without actually downloading anything.
Clicking play in steam launches the NCSoft Launcher, directly starts CoH, and seems to work fine. I get my steam overlay, and all the features with it, with no problem. Win7 x64. Highly approve of the Steam integration so far. |
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I tried doing this and even though I got the overlay to work I can't connect to the game at all. I'm running windows 7 64bit.
Basically the message is always "game failed to connect to the login server blah blah contact customer service yada yada."
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Yeah, apparently since I posted that -projectcoh method for steam integration, some of the game's important IP adresses changed - And, long story short, I don't fully understand all that's going on (something about the launcher passing new IPs to the client on launch, rather than patching the client with those IPs.. I think.)|
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I tried doing this and even though I got the overlay to work I can't connect to the game at all. I'm running windows 7 64bit.
Basically the message is always "game failed to connect to the login server blah blah contact customer service yada yada." |
THIS THREAD looks like it contains useful info/tips regarding this though.
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There are two methods to fix that error:
The slightly more intrusive method that NCSoft should have done:
Open regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cryptic\Coh and change Auth to 64.25.36.88 . Close regedit, and you're done.
The always do a manual override method:
Append -auth 64.25.36.88 to the target/command to directly launch it (after -project coh).
Personally, I think the first is the less brain-dead method, and that Paragon should have just updated the registry entry when it changed. Instead, they opted to screw up everyone with shortcuts to directly launch the game. Also, why on earth do they use a fixed IP address instead of a DNS address?
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;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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You mean something like auth.city.com?
Heh, reminds me of a funny EQ moment... Apparently the game servers all used a DNS server to point to "Feydark" or "Plane of Knowledge"... and it's gone down before. So if you zoned, you d/c'd
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You mean something like auth.city.com?
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;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Auth key is no longer used by the game. It doesn't get created by new installs.
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Just today I bought CoH on Steam, hoping it would let me bypass having to use the NcSoft Launcher (I don't really care for it). When I tried running the game though it installed it anyway so no luck there =/ So that means when you run CoH it's actually running the launcher, and I noticed that because of it my Steam account doesn't register me as being ingame. I was hoping to use the Steam overlay while playing so I could still talk with friends, so does anyone know if there's a way to make it work?