Steam Overlay not working?

[Vond]

As the title says, for some reason since I started playing Skyrim again quite recently, the steam overlay just refuses to work. It *has* worked once or twice, without me changing anything - but then goes back to not working. Skyrim is the only game with this issue. Could it be related to MO as the modutility of choice? It's highly annoying because steam chat is the only IM me and my friends use. and tabbing out from fullscreen mode is a chore. Windowed mode sadly not a good option due to tearing. :/ Any ideas?

[Neovalen]

I use steam all the time... no idea.

[Solist]

No issues here either. Try deleting your steam client and support files and let the steam client reinstall?

[Vond]

Tried that earlier today, didn't work. Then I tried uninstalling Steam (which to my surprise also uninstalled all games and removed every subfolder there was - damn I'm happy I moved over to MO as when I used WB for installing I had it all under SteamApps\Common\Skyrim Mods..... ) and it still doesn't work. It works for every game except Skyrim which is why I find it so odd.

[hylskrik]

Are you using the SMAA injector? It has a steam overlay bug fix option in the ini that needs to be active.

 

[misc]
;set to 1 to improve steam overlay compatibility
weird_steam_hack = 1

[Vond]

Are you using the SMAA injector? It has a steam overlay bug fix option in the ini that needs to be active.

 

[misc]
;set to 1 to improve steam overlay compatibility
weird_steam_hack = 1

Nope, I stick to ENB v119 to be able to use hardware AA as I can't stand the shimmering I get without SSAA. Should've mentioned this as you're right to bring it up. :)

[hylskrik]

It was probably the first thing you checked but did you verify that Skyrim has the Steam overlay enabled in properties? :)

 

No SweetFX either?

[Vond]

Yeah it's enabled for Skyrim and in general for all games (and does work for all other games), and nope no SweetFX either. :/ For a while I was thinking RadeonPro might be the culprit, then remembered I have radeonpro profiles for pretty much every other game as well and overlay still work for them.

 

Just tried launching Skyrim via Steam, ie vanilla-Skyrim as I use Mod Organizer so nothing is installed in steams Skyrim-folder, and that way the overlay works. But not when launching skse via MO

[hylskrik]

Doesn't RadeonPro hook into DX9 the same way ENBs and injectors do? Might be worth a google :)

 

I run skse through MO and the Steam overlay works here...

[Vond]

Seems radeonpro is the culprit indeed. Which is odd, since overlay as mentioned works on every other game that has radeonpro profiles. Oh well. :)