Steam Tinker launch isn't loading apps and game at same time anymore

[A Motivated Man]

So for the past few months Steam Tinker launch is refusing to open both the game and software at the same time and is instead opening only 1 at a time. I tend to play single player games I already beat with cheat engine and cheat trainers but an update must've cause this cause I've been using Steam Tinker launch for a while and this has only happened ever sense the update came out for Steam that allows you to record gameplay. If anyone could help me out on this please let me know as this is infuriating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HHX8fnsV0g

[infamous2o]

I second this. I use ICGS and it needs to open after the game so I’ve got to inject it after a few seconds or it fails to find the game process. You might have some luck with CE if you fork the CE exe and don’t include any delays so they both start together.

[hav3mercy]

I seem to have run in a similar issue, but I am unable to determine the cause. I am on a PC running Garuda, and I mostly use trainers as forked commands under Steam Tinker Launch. I've had moderate success running them in the past, but as of late most of them have stopped working no matter what I try to do. Some of them still do, and I am using the same settings, same Proton version, etc.
I tried reinstalling wine prefix, switching fork to inject, adding timeouts, but nothing seems to make a difference. Trainer itself runs fine as an executable, its just the simultaneous launch with Steam Tinker that's misbehaving.

Would be great to get some input on this.

[BallsToYouMyGoodSir]

anybody got a fix for this
Steam Tinker launch is kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ since this update
buying steam deck was worst finacial choice ive made so far in my entire life

[infamous2o]

Ok i found a fix. You gotta create a bat file and place it in your games executable directory. Launch it as a custom command and command only in Steam Tinker Launch game menu. Make sure to have all your dependencies required by using protontricks (i needed dotnet). Here is my example which includes a 30 second pause to allow my dll injector to not fire off immediately.

@echo off
start bg3_dx11.exe
ping -n 31 127.0.0.1 > nul
start IGCSInjector.exe


Just replace the exe's with yours and make sure its saved as a bat file. I know its linux and may work with a .sh file but i didnt even try. Thought it would be more complex than that...

Just make sure if your game name has spaces you use quotes like this

start "" "your game name.exe"

[Xcall1bur]

Originally posted by infamous2o:

Ok i found a fix. You gotta create a bat file and place it in your games executable directory. Launch it as a custom command and command only in Steam Tinker Launch game menu. Make sure to have all your dependencies required by using protontricks (i needed dotnet). Here is my example which includes a 30 second pause to allow my dll injector to not fire off immediately.

@echo off
start bg3_dx11.exe
ping -n 31 127.0.0.1 > nul
start IGCSInjector.exe


Just replace the exe's with yours and make sure its saved as a bat file. I know its linux and may work with a .sh file but i didnt even try. Thought it would be more complex than that...

Just make sure if your game name has spaces you use quotes like this

start "" "your game name.exe"

I wish there was a video or something on this lol. I'm not the brightest when it comes to this stuff 🙃 so I wish I could watch to follow

[hav3mercy]

Originally posted by infamous2o:

Ok i found a fix. You gotta create a bat file and place it in your games executable directory. Launch it as a custom command and command only in Steam Tinker Launch game menu. Make sure to have all your dependencies required by using protontricks (i needed dotnet). Here is my example which includes a 30 second pause to allow my dll injector to not fire off immediately.

@echo off
start bg3_dx11.exe
ping -n 31 127.0.0.1 > nul
start IGCSInjector.exe


Just replace the exe's with yours and make sure its saved as a bat file. I know its linux and may work with a .sh file but i didnt even try. Thought it would be more complex than that...

Just make sure if your game name has spaces you use quotes like this

start "" "your game name.exe"

What is IGCSInjector.exe ?

[infamous2o]

It is a DLL injector you can get for free used by IGCS. Interjectable camera system. I just use the injector program and skip the gui program because my steamdeck won’t run it as far as I know. You have to edit the ini file for the injector to the program and DLL file you want. It can inject camera mods from Otis, or even the bepinex DLL for unity games.

[hav3mercy]

Originally posted by infamous2o:

It is a DLL injector you can get for free used by IGCS. Interjectable camera system. I just use the injector program and skip the gui program because my steamdeck won’t run it as far as I know. You have to edit the ini file for the injector to the program and DLL file you want. It can inject camera mods from Otis, or even the bepinex DLL for unity games.

You lost me after "dll injector" :D

[Bukharchik]

In steam tinker launch game menu, there's a wait for custom command option, make sure it's set to 2 secs. -
Found it on YouTube. It worked

[infamous2o]

I used to use steam tinker launch for forking commands and injecting dll’s but it recently stopped working for me. So making a batch script seems to work every time. It was a pain to learn but chat gpt helped me a bunch. As long as all the things you are trying to execute are in the same folder as well as your batch script, you don’t need to define paths which makes it simple.

[infamous2o]

You know what that actually worked for me to launch cheat engine on top of having winedlloverrides in the arguments to load reloaded II mod manager. 0 seconds it fails to open the game until I close cheat engine, 2 seconds and it works.

[Santiago]

Originally posted by Bukharchik:

In steam tinker launch game menu, there's a wait for custom command option, make sure it's set to 2 secs. -
Found it on YouTube. It worked

OMG, bro, God bless your soul for the end of the time, thank you, i was trying everything, but only this one is the one that help.

[Fbll -The Seeker-]

I did enable the wait for custom command option with 2 seconds marked in. STL still says No proton version found many times and then fails miserably.
The first time it at least launched Cheat Engine and then failed to open the game. Now it won't launch either.

[infamous2o]

Try just using a batch script to open the game and cheat engine skipping stl all together. Just change the target to the bat file. Or if you can’t just add a non steam game and choose the bat file. That way you can pick a proton. Or use the default. Whenever I use stl it won’t let me use protontricks outside of stl. Maybe that’s kinda what is happening.