How do you run Origin games with steam overlay?

[hooaht FOYAH]

I added Dead Space 3 and Crysis 3 to my steam library, but when I run through Steam, origin would pop up then game would run, but it wouldn't be on steam. It worked before, but now it doesn't work anymore.

[Oddtoxin]

take them off ur steam library and run them like normal something like launch crysis.exe or origin

[Oddtoxin]

OH wait run as admin

[Dental Plan]

All I do is add the Origin.exe as a non-Steam game and then re-name it to whatever game I'm playing. Make sure you disable Origin in-game as well as that can conflict with the Steam overlay.

[hooaht FOYAH]

Do it every time I switch the game?

[hooaht FOYAH]

Someone told me you run the game on steam before you have origin on, that's probably right.

[Sentinel Lyons]

It should also be noted that there is an option in Origin to where when you exit a game, it exits the client. If you exit the game and exit it manually, Steam will still show you are playing the game because Origin will still have a background process running (you can see and disable it in the task manager). If you use the option to exit the client whenever exiting a game, however, it will take off the background process as well. All you need to do on Origin is go to

Origin>Application Settings>Advanced>Automatic Exit

Then check the box next to "Automatically exit Origin after closing a game."

This is very nifty for the Steam Client in Origin games method, as you don't need to exit the background processes anymore.

[sicthegamer]

Originally posted by Sentinel Lyons:

It should also be noted that there is an option in Origin to where when you exit a game, it exits the client. If you exit the game and exit it manually, Steam will still show you are playing the game because Origin will still have a background process running (you can see and disable it in the task manager). If you use the option to exit the client whenever exiting a game, however, it will take off the background process as well. All you need to do on Origin is go to

Origin>Application Settings>Advanced>Automatic Exit

Then check the box next to "Automatically exit Origin after closing a game."

This is very nifty for the Steam Client in Origin games method, as you don't need to exit the background processes anymore.

Oh wow, that is pretty cool! Looks like Origin is trying to play nicely with Steam now :P

[Whatever]

Edit:

THESE INSTRUCTIONS WORK GREAT WITH WINDOWS 7 BUT DON'T SEEM TO WORK RELIABLY WITH WINDOWS 10 (e.g. Mass Effect overlay doesn't work but PvZ does for me).


This method works well with Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare. I have not tried it with any other Origin games.

Adding Origin games to steam with overlay (originally posted in now-defunct californiacs.net forums):

1. Add game’s executable to Steam as a non-Steam game (normal process)

2. Under the game’s properties window, the “Target” field doesn’t have to be changed, ex:
"D:\Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare\PVZ.Main_Win64_Retail.exe"

3. Under “Start In”, follow this example:
"D:\Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare\" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Origin.exe"
Make sure that the path between the first pair of quote marks points to the folder where the game's executable file is located. Sometimes they are within a "bin" folder inside the game's main folder.

4. Add a custom banner in grid view if desired

5. In the Origin client, go to “Application Settings” and do the following:
Under “General”, unckeck “Automatically launch Origin when I log on to Win”
Under “Origin In Game”, uncheck “Enable Origin In Game” to disable Origin overlay (optional)
Under “Advanced”, check “Automatically exit Origin after closing game”

After I originally posted these instructions, I added Mass Effect to my Steam library and it worked great. It seems others have gotten several other games to work, so scan the rest of these posts to see if you game is supported.

If you try this with other Origin games and it works, please report here to benefit others.

Regards.

[faye]

Originally posted by Manolito:

This method works well with Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare. I have not tried it with any other Origin games.

Adding Origin games to steam with overlay (originally posted in now-defunct californiacs.net forums):

1. Add game’s executable to Steam as a non-Steam game (normal process)

2. Under the game’s properties window, the “Target” field doesn’t have to be changed, ex:
"D:\Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare\PVZ.Main_Win64_Retail.exe"

3. Under “Start In”, follow this example:
"D:\Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare\" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Origin.exe"

4. Add a custom banner in grid view if desired

5. In the Origin client, go to “Application Settings” and do the following:
Under “General”, unckeck “Automatically launch Origin when I log on to Win”
Under “Origin In Game”, uncheck “Enable Origin In Game” to disable overlay (optional)
Under “Advanced”, check “Automatically exit Origin after closing game”

If you try this with other Origin games and it works, please report here to benefit others.

Regards.

This worked for me with Mass Effect 3, thanks.

[Whatever]

Originally posted by Fletch:

This worked for me with Mass Effect 3, thanks.

Excellent. Thanks for adding that game to the list.

[Loupak]

Works for Dragon Age Inquisition. Thanks for the how-to

[DarkoreXOR]

Thanks

[FallenDreams]

Manolito: This works... well kind of. I had to manipulate the Start In part of your tutorial but it worked! This is what mine Start In looked like for Crysis 3

"D:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Crysis 3\Bin32" "D:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Origin.exe"

[Whatever]

Ah, good point. The first path in that field needs to point to the folder where the game's executable is located. My example was specific to PvZ. I'll edit the post to clarify that.

Thanks for reporting on another game that seems to work with this method.

[曹爸爸]

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