Playing shenmue 3 as a Non-steam game? Not working

[chris jones ↠]

Just gives me a blank screen when I try to run it through steam as a non-steam game. Works fine on Epic. Any fixes?

[Kalo712]

a get the same thing but on epic launcher after playing for 10min... looked for support, forums, anything and there is nothing.... sent an email to epic and im waiting for response.... if i find something ill let you know

[Slam Dunk Tater Tots]

I had this same problem. I managed to fix it by adding the Epic Games Launcher as a Non-Steam shortcut. Opened Epic's launcher that way, then I could launch Shenmue 3 without issue. Did this mainly because the EGS doesn't support my PS3 controller, and now that's working as well. It's a pretty redundant hoop to jump through, but hey...

[Kalo712]

Originally posted by Unfit for Human Consumption:

I had this same problem. I managed to fix it by adding the Epic Games Launcher as a Non-Steam shortcut. Opened Epic's launcher that way, then I could launch Shenmue 3 without issue. Did this mainly because the EGS doesn't support my PS3 controller, and now that's working as well. It's a pretty redundant hoop to jump through, but hey...

pretty creative solution bro! i'll try it thank you so much!!

[Rad80s]

So when games don't come with multiple launchers... you guys just make them that way...interesting :D

[Miraglyth]

Originally posted by Unfit for Human Consumption:

Did this mainly because the EGS doesn't support my PS3 controller, and now that's working as well.

Steam does enable non-Steam games to receive its controller support.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6490-QOAJ-7167

This includes Steam controllers, Xbox (360 and One) and PS4 controllers. If I read right, Switch Pro controllers too?

In this instance you're basically using Steam as a modern Joy2Key.

[Slam Dunk Tater Tots]

Originally posted by Kalo712:

pretty creative solution bro! i'll try it thank you so much!!

No problem. I have no idea why it works that way, but that seemed to fix it. I don't know if it worked for your specific problem, but I hope it helped.

Originally posted by Chappie:

So when games don't come with multiple launchers... you guys just make them that way...interesting :D

Haha, yeah. It's kind of ridiculous. This is what my love for Shenmue has driven me to.

Originally posted by Miraglyth:

Steam does enable non-Steam games to receive its controller support.

Yup! It's probably one of the coolest things Steam has done in the past few years. Personally, I feel that Steam acts like bloatware at times, but features like this keep me coming back to it.

[Mark]

I was looking to see if anyone has managed to get the Steam overlay working and came across this thread. If you guys want the game to just launch, set up a shortcut by adding the Epic Games Launcher as a non-Steam game. Then, right click it and click properties. Change the Target field to this (quotes included):

"com.epicgames.launcher://apps/Pepper?action=launch&silent=false"

That will open the Epic Games Launcher and then immediately launch Shenmue III. You can also change silent=false to silent=true, and the launcher will open in a minimized state, so you don't even have to see it if you don't want to.

I still have not found a way to get the Steam overlay to work. I don't think it's possible because how the Epic Games Launcher DRM seems to work is that the game applications are bound to running by being invoked as parameters of the launcher, and they aren't hooked into the application in such a way that running the application will run the launcher in the background and let it work, which would explain why running the .exe results in a black screen. UPlay does work that way, and I can get the Steam overlay to work on games like Ghost Recon Breakpoint by just making a shortcut to the .exe.

Also, if you have any other games that you want to figure this out for, you can just have whatever launcher make a desktop shortcut, right click it, and take whatever is in the Target field out and put it into a non-Steam game shortcut Target field. I have done this for any game that adding the .exe through the non-Steam game dialog doesn't work for, and it has always worked out. I even managed to get this working with Retroarch. Just some food for thought.

[Citizen Cook]

Originally posted by the globglobgabgalab 📚:

Just gives me a blank screen when I try to run it through steam as a non-steam game. Works fine on Epic. Any fixes?

Why did you buy in E**C?

[Mark]

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:

Originally posted by the globglobgabgalab 📚:

Just gives me a blank screen when I try to run it through steam as a non-steam game. Works fine on Epic. Any fixes?

Why did you buy in E**C?

Could be any of multiple reasons: It is currently the only storefront that offers the game on PC, not having a PS4, preferring to play most games on PC, backing the game 4 years ago and actually wanting to play it instead of waiting another year for it to come to Steam...

[Citizen Cook]

Originally posted by Mark:

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:

Why did you buy in E**C?

Could be any of multiple reasons: It is currently the only storefront that offers the game on PC, not having a PS4, preferring to play most games on PC, backing the game 4 years ago and actually wanting to play it instead of waiting another year for it to come to Steam...

Yeah, but E**C...

[span1922]

You get a black screen cause of copyright and trying to run it without the Epic launcher.Epic as well stop the game working if you have not updated it which I think is stupid.You should have a right to play the game updated or not updated,you paid and supported the game to be made. EPIC are SHIfT..lol and don't support there games like Steam do which is silly too.I understand now why no one like EPIC.
I still have Shenmue 1 on Dreamcast anyone else..?