Help: Steam Overlay for streaming Twitch Chat

[jasnxl]

I would like to be able to stream the chat from a Twitch streamer, while in game using the Steam Overlay. I know it was possible using the technique described in this Steam guide;

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=712075498

However, using those instructions I wasn't able to connect to the Twitch IRC server. If this is still doable, please feel free to point towards any updated content. And if you're aware of another method for accomplishing this, please feel free to comment as well.

TIA..

[Look]

why so complicated? you can open a browser window in the overlay and you can fix the browser window on a position + you can adjust the visability, when you close the overlay, you see the browser window „ingame“ as a small overlay.

then look @ twitch and you can see, there is a option to open up the twitch chat in a seperate browser window.

[jasnxl]

Thanks for your response. I honestly never thought to just access the full Twitch site from the Steam Overlay browser like you suggested.

I just tried it and it definitely worked. But when I click into the game area the overlay disappears. I don't know how to make it stay there or make it transparent, while I play the game.

[Look]

open the browser in the overlay, then watch in the upper right corner of the browser window, there is a pin icon, click it. you can fix the window position, you can adjust the window size and you can adjust the alpha (visability).

[jasnxl]

Thank you again!

That did it. BTW, the overlay browser behavior is a little weird. When I popped out the chat window there wasn't a pin or visual adjustment icon on its top bar, like there is on the original browser window.

It's ok because pinning the first window meant that both windows are pinned. However, the second chat window doesn't respect the transparency adjustments. So instead of popping out the chat permanently, I popped it out, copied the URL there, then went back to my original browser window and opened another tab with the copied URL.

That worked perfectly. Now I can just have the "chat" tab selected, and resized, and made transparent. Now I can see the active chat stream while I play.