Weird Launcher issue

[Dave]

So I select to start the game from steam, the launcher starts, I select Play. And then "The Longest Journey" loads...

I couldn't figure out any way to actually Start Velocity Ultra, so I uninstalled The Longest Journey. Now Velocity Ultra starts like it should.

Really bizarre for this games launcher to load a game I installed years ago.

[T_beard]

I'm having the exact same problem. Funny thing is, I don't even have The Longest Journey on Steam - I got it from GOG, and it's in a completely different directory. I'd rather not uninstall it, so to anyone who can figure out what is going on, help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I compared this to what happens when I run TLJ directly, and interestingly enough, I realized that the animation for Funcom does not show when it runs from the Velocity Ultra launcher but does normally. I do have my save files and everything, though, but that's almost a given because they're stored in AppData. No idea if this is helpful, but it could be.

Edit 2: Even weirder - I noticed the quit game popup uses a different font between running TLJ normally and from VU's launcher.

[Dave]

I didn't have it from steam either. Mine was installed from the physical install media that came with the Dreamfall GOTY edition.

[T_beard]

Update: I managed to get Velocity Ultra to run without uninstalling TLJ, by moving TLJ's .exe file out of its folder temporarily (which accomplishes basically the same purpose, but is easily reversible). It's a silly fix that shouldn't be necessary, but at least it works. Of course, I'm not going to say the problem is really fixed, because it isn't.

[kris.aalst]

I'm having the same problem. Have 'The Longest Journey' on GoG, not on Steam. Glad I found this thread, old as it may be, because for a moment I thought I woke up in the Twilight Zone this morning.

[matrixdll]

same thing here - GoG version of TLG.
Got a slightly easier solution - just renamed game.exe in The Longest Journey folder to game.exe_
When I'm done with V:U - I'll just rename it back.

[OnnieKalani]

Anyone else having this problem still? I don't have the longest journey, did steam install the wrong game? Can't get launcher to start Velocity, just TLJ.