any way to enable steam overlay?

[s_greyjoy]

that was one of the reasons why i wanted to purchase this on steam, despite having it on gog already

[Maia]

anyone else with this? if its a general problem, wont buy it :(

[Bluebeak]

Not to my knowledge. I did get the Steam overlay working by fooling with the files but it wasn't playable.

[Maia]

and got my answer
"
It's a DirectDraw game, it cannot be done."

[Applekid]

Hmmm so absolutely no reason to get it on steam over gog.

[502]

The overlay works with the DDraw.dll and D3DImm.dll from dgVoodoo, a wrapper to generate dlls. Screenshots work too, but the game performance is a lot worse.

I'll try tinkering with dgVoodoo options for better performance.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=756172566

UPDATE: As it's a DirectDraw game the performance is a lot better at lower resolutions, lowering it to 1280x720 from 1920x1080 helped a lot. Your mileage may vary on different hardware. Just ignore the 1080p screenshot above :P

UPDATE 2: As suggested elsewhere, removing or renaming DDraw.dll (including the one from dgVoodoo) greatly improves game performance. So you can simply disable it during gameplay (by renaming or moving it), and enable it just before taking screenshots instead of keeping it on 24/7. Not ideal, but this is the only way until we have a permanent solution.

[Maia]

downloaded dgvoodoo 2.51 how exactly do you make it to work with this game? :D

[502]

Just copy DDraw.dll and D3DImm.dll from dgVoodoo's MS folder into Arcanum's installation folder (the one with Arcanum.exe)

But as I said above, this is just a band aid "fix" to take screenshots, the .dlls really ruin the performance, and cause crazy artifacts. I strongly suggest renaming DDraw.dll when you don't need to take screenshots.

[Pyro9999]

for me using the overlay with dgvoodoo doesnt really work... whenever i use overlay everything freezes until i alt tab... also it screws performance as mentioned... also the solution to rename voodoo's ddraw only makes it act like voodoo isnt even installed (which means it wont screw my performance)... sigh i guess im just going to have to live without steam overlay even though i dont like alt tabbing constantly to use steam chat