How to disable Steam Overlay for non-steam games ?

[Ld7]

I like to have all my games in steam big picture to play on TV with a quick access, but some games that i have on retail disk and added to my library won't work well if steam overlay is enabled, i don't want to disable the overlay globally everytime i want to run a certain game, and there's no option to disable this for specific non-steam games, i found old threads of the past 4 years with people complaining about this issue and never found a solution.

Does someone know a trick to disable this only for certain games that don't have this option on the config menu ? maybe some value change on regedit...

[eram]

Yes you can set this on a per game basis. Right click the game in the steam games list and check the options.

properties/general/enable steam overlay for this game. Untick it.

[Tev]

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes you can set this on a per game basis. Right click the game in the steam games list and check the options.

properties/general/enable steam overlay for this game. Untick it.

This doesn't apply for non-Steam games though.

You could just add a 3rd party application and rename it your game's title. Use it to show off you're playing the game while you're playing the actual game without the GUI.

I don't see why else you'd add a non-Steam game and not want the GUI.

[eram]

Oh ok, sorry i thought i checked this with a non steam game i had, obviously not.

[Tev]

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

Oh ok, sorry i thought i checked this with a non steam game i had, obviously not.

I had to double-check too, so no worries.

[Ld7]

Teutep eredeti hozzászólása:

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes you can set this on a per game basis. Right click the game in the steam games list and check the options.

properties/general/enable steam overlay for this game. Untick it.

This doesn't apply for non-Steam games though.

You could just add a 3rd party application and rename it your game's title. Use it to show off you're playing the game while you're playing the actual game without the GUI.

I don't see why else you'd add a non-Steam game and not want the GUI.

i like the overlay because i can easily take and see my screenshots, use the browser, see the clock and how many hours i'm playing, i only have this problem for 2 games, on fifa 14 if the overlay is enabled, it makes the loading times longer and the framerate drops to 10 and makes the game unplayable and in silent hill 2 the game crash ramdom times, i will try what you said, thanks dude.

[=Axton=]

Bump. This needs to be an option for NON STEAM GAMES.

Surprising how many times this gets bumped and all the features that have been added in the past 14months but not this one.

edit; unsubscribing from this because it's too depressing to see it not be implemented after all this time.

[JailDesigner]

Bump. C'mon it's only a checkbox (AFAIK)

[DanteDDL[UA]]

Valve really needs to do that. Its nothing special. Just block for OverlayIU exe file. Its a shame that for so many years this haven't been done. I mean, hey! Some Steam Games have Valve side Overlay block because of crushes with it. Its obvious that games that wasn't designed for Steam can crush with overlay too. I installed few days ago Emperor: Battle for Dune. The game is prehistoric already. And it crushes with overlay. You will say - "Don't add it than". Yeah.... But Steam is my game library. I access each game from there. It helps me keep clean desktop and start menu without the need to make special folders for game shortcuts or navigating all the way to game directory for main exe file. Its not only overlay or my game activity notification. Its my personal easy-to-access game library manager.

[Karl]

+1

I have non-Steam FFXIV, and the overlay causes problems with tab targeting. Need an option to disable. I guess I'll have to change the key combo globally.

[Me0wish]

Seriously need this feature.

[Jin]

I really want this, cause I use Steam as my game library and obviously not all games I have are on Steam.

[Specter]

I've been setting up my own personal steam box with big picture mode. I'm using xpadder to assign controller profiles on a per application basis and everything is working great, except PowerDVD for watching blu-rays. Problem is, xpadder switches to the PowerDVD profile as it is launched, but as soon as the steam overlay appears, it steals focus from PowerDVD, resulting in xpadder removing the controller profile and being unable to operate the software. If I could disable the steam overlay for this title, there would be no problem. But I can't.

Doing some research, this particular feature request has been active since at least 2011. I don't see why this is such a big problem for valve to be able to fix. The functionality is already there for native steam games. Can we not just add a tick box in the settings for a non-steam shortcut?

EDIT: Actually, my problem isn't the overlay, its big picture mode itself. Its stealing the focus. So disregard this post.

[Ryusho Yosei]

Massively needed, The overlay causes conflicts with the ENB I have in a game, and I can only disable it for -all- Not this -one- spesific non-steam launch version of the game >.<

[Jig McGalliger]

Add this pls. Or at least a launch option command.

[E_net4]

Just showing my interest for this as well. It makes perfect sense to have such a configuration on any application in which Steam overlay is attempted.