Сant use steam overlay through SFSE

[Myamlya]

Suddenly, playing from SFSE i cant see fps form SteamOverlay and i cant use Shift-Tab for open it, when i open game in steam it works fine, do anybody know how to fix it?

[Noma]

Are you using Mod Organizer 2 ?
If so, try that : https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/665

Note : MO2 has been updated since this guide, so you can skip the 6th step if you download the latest MO2 version from their own Discord.

[Myamlya]

Originally posted by Noma:

Are you using Mod Organizer 2 ?
If so, try that : https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/665

Note : MO2 has been updated since this guide, so you can skip the 6th step if you download the latest MO2 version from their own Discord.

No i dont, why do i need to use it cause i have mods like "removing colour filter"

[Jaggid Edje]

Edit:
Removing what I suggested and instead replacing with a link to the comment below that has a much more elegant solution. here.

[Myamlya]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

All you need to do is go into steam and from the steam menu go to Games->Add a Non-Steam game to my library.

Add the SFSE loader executable, and launch that from within steam when you want to play. You'll have your overlay.

ok ill try

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Gandosha:

ok ill try

If you do it right, it will work.

it's what I've been doing to get my Steam overlay with SFSE in all of the BGS rpg's going back at least as far back as Fallout 3, if not further.

[Myamlya]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Gandosha:

ok ill try

If you do it right, it will work.

it's what I've been doing to get my Steam overlay in all of the BGS going back at least as far back as Fallout 3, if not further.

no, i added exe to it, but when i open game it opens in explorer - i see icon in the bottom of the screen and it seems like it runs in the background but when i try to open it i just see my desktop

[Noma]

Originally posted by Gandosha:

Originally posted by Noma:

Are you using Mod Organizer 2 ?
If so, try that : https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/665

Note : MO2 has been updated since this guide, so you can skip the 6th step if you download the latest MO2 version from their own Discord.

No i dont, why do i need to use it cause i have mods like "removing colour filter"

I would advise anyone modding the game to do so through a mod launcher. If you add the game as a non-Steam game, you won't get achievments and the time played counter.
I can use Mod Orgamizer, SFSE and the Steam overlay all together. It takes like 10 minutes to set up.

[fletch71]

i'm using SFSE and the steam overlay works as normal ... that said i saw a few posts over on nexus where people were having problems. Nexus is probably the best place to get a resolution

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Noma:

I would advise anyone modding the game to do so through a mod launcher. If you add the game as a non-Steam game, you won't get achievments and the time played counter.

Wrong, you still get achievements using the method that I mentioned. Your playtime is also recorded.

You are not playing Starfield as a "non-steam game". The SFSE loader is the non-steam game. You launch that through Steam. It launches Starfield, which is also running while Steam is running. That's all it takes for playtime and achievements to be recorded.

[MagicHp]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Noma:

I would advise anyone modding the game to do so through a mod launcher. If you add the game as a non-Steam game, you won't get achievments and the time played counter.

Wrong, you still get achievements using the method that I mentioned. Your playtime is also recorded.

You are not playing Starfield as a "non-steam game". The SFSE loader is the non-steam game. You launch that through Steam. It launches Starfield, which is also running while Steam is running. That's all it takes for playtime and achievements to be recorded.

It still makes a lot more sense to launch SFSE directly from the Steam StarField "play" button ^^

[MagicHp]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by MagicHp:

It still makes a lot more sense to launch SFSE directly from the Steam StarField "play" button ^^

The only way to do that which I'm aware of involves renaming Starfield.exe and renaming SFSELoader.exe. And you have to re-do that process every single time either one of them updates.
I don't see a method that involves me having to re-do it for every update as making more sense than a method that you set up once and never have to worry about again.

All cool if you think differently, but you certainly won't convince me to change my thinking.

It's a simple solution that involves less changes and launch a single process through Steam, when yours launches two.

Do whatever you want, but don't present your solution as the best and only one worth ;)

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by MagicHp:

Do whatever you want, but don't present your solution as the best and only one worth ;)

I didn't present it that way. I responded to someone who said something incorrect about doing it.

[Gorgon Freemint]

I figured out how to run SFSE through the new MO2 beta and also have steam overlay. I followed this steam guide for Morrowind but applied it for Starfield. You can look at it here
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2666942112

Install SFSE normally and go get the beta build for MO2 from the MO2 discord here https://discord.com/invite/6GKR9jZ . Or you can download this plugin for MO2 here https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/681 . This MO2 build will automatically detect SFSE.
In MO2 go to modify executables, select SFSE, make sure "Force load libraries" is selected, then click on "Configure Libraries" to the right.

Select "Add Row", check the box next to "Process Name", then hit the "..." button to its right and select the "sfse_loader.exe" as the process. Then hit the "..." button on the right of "Library to Load" and navigate to your steam root folder and select the "GameOverlayRenderer64.dll" then hit ok.

The guide will be more descript with pictures. Even though it is for Morrowind, this still worked for me by selecting "sfse_loader.exe" instead and then selecting "GameOverlayRenderer64.dll" instead of the non 64 version.

Now I am only using reshade and the Baka Achievement Enabler. I am not using any dlss mods at the moment so I don't know if that will conflict at all for you.

Anyways, I hope this helps because I really wanted the steam overlay for achievement tracking and I finally found an answer that worked for me.

[Xantholne ｡◕‿‿◕｡]

Originally posted by Yargum Bargum:

I figured out how to run SFSE through the new MO2 beta and also have steam overlay. I followed this steam guide for Morrowind but applied it for Starfield. You can look at it here
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2666942112

Install SFSE normally and go get the beta build for MO2 from the MO2 discord here https://discord.com/invite/6GKR9jZ . Or you can download this plugin for MO2 here https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/681 . This MO2 build will automatically detect SFSE.
In MO2 go to modify executables, select SFSE, make sure "Force load libraries" is selected, then click on "Configure Libraries" to the right.

Select "Add Row", check the box next to "Process Name", then hit the "..." button to its right and select the "sfse_loader.exe" as the process. Then hit the "..." button on the right of "Library to Load" and navigate to your steam root folder and select the "GameOverlayRenderer64.dll" then hit ok.

The guide will be more descript with pictures. Even though it is for Morrowind, this still worked for me by selecting "sfse_loader.exe" instead and then selecting "GameOverlayRenderer64.dll" instead of the non 64 version.

Now I am only using reshade and the Baka Achievement Enabler. I am not using any dlss mods at the moment so I don't know if that will conflict at all for you.

Anyways, I hope this helps because I really wanted the steam overlay for achievement tracking and I finally found an answer that worked for me.

For people searching on Google later.
Make sure it's the Overlay64.dll like said here, and not on the morrowind/oblivion guides where they just use the regular, that was my issue.

[Landomatic]

Much easier fix, add this line to your "launch options," which can be found by right clicking on your game, going to "Properties," "General," then "Launch Options." Direct the part in quotes below to wherever the main game files, and SFSE (sfse_loader.exe) are installed. Usually the starfield game directory.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starfield\sfse_loader.exe" -- %COMMAND%