BPM in-game overlay only works in compaitibility mode on Win10. Else I get regular overlay. Fix?

[Roland]

Okay so ever since the last Steam update Steam gives me compatibility warnings when I launch it in regular and BPM modes.
I googled around and found how to fix it via modifying registry entries, but now I get the regular steam overlay in BPM, which I can't use at all with a controller. If I run as admin I get the bpm overlay back but I also get the compatibility error messages back. This only started happening with the most recent Steam update.
Is anyone else having this problem?
And does anyone know a fix?

[ReBoot]

Is your Steam service running properly?

[Roland]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Is your Steam service running properly?

As in "Steam Client Service (32 bit)"? yes.

[ReBoot]

Give your user account full access privileges to the Steam folder.

[Roland]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Give your user account full access privileges to the Steam folder.

Waiting on Take Ownership to finish now. (My steam folder is over a terabyte...)

[ReBoot]

You could also explain what registry you have changed.

[Roland]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

You could also explain what registry you have changed.

I deleted this entry as per a guide on fixing the compatibility error. (there was another entry I deleted but I found after restoring it that it had no effect. This is the entry that seems to be the deciding factor)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers]
"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\Steam.exe"="~ RUNASADMIN"

[ReBoot]

Yes, deleting that is indeed a good idea.

[Roland]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Yes, deleting that is indeed a good idea.

LOL I figured as much until it broke the BPM overlay... (still waiting on Take Ownership)

[ReBoot]

If your overlay needed administrative privileges in the first place, it was broken already and you were treating the symptom and not the cause.

[Roland]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

If your overlay needed administrative privileges in the first place, it was broken already and you were treating the symptom and not the cause.

I never set the admin privileges. That was all windows setting things automatically. According to the guide I read on the fix, it is a common issue in windows 7, which this 10 install is an upgrade from. And Steam never gave me the compatibility warnings until a few days ago after the recent update.

[ReBoot]

Then not you were treating. Still, this was a symptom treatment. Not cause treatment.

[Roland]

The Take Ownership command line window just kinda stopped, so I'm trying again this time through the windows GUI

[Roland]

Taking full control of the Steam folder did not fix it.

[Roland]

Right clicking on Steam and selecting "Run as Administrator" does not give me the compatibility warnings and BPMs overlay works. So far this is the only way I've gotten it to run like it always has. Is there some way I can get it to always launch like this without having to right click?

And insight as to why this is different from setting compatibility settings would be nice, as I always thought they were the same setting and one was a run once vs an always on.

[ReBoot]

So you prefer the symptom and not the cause? If you want to treat the cause, we can work here. If you prefer treating the symptom, I'm out. Irun Steam without administrative privileges and the overlay works just fine.