Hello all!
Some people are having problem with their Guild Wars 2 and Steam Overlay, that Overlay simple doesn’t work and that’s it. No clear reason why it is so. I had same problem and finally found a solution that works perfectly.
Main problem with Steam Overlay and non-Steam games are non-Steam games that use launchers to launch game. Guild Wars 2 is no exception. So simply solution would be launch game directly with game’s .exe, without launcher, BUT… Guild Wars 2 uses same .exe to launch launcher AND game, there is no different .exes to launcher and to game itself. But i found solution how to launch game directly, without launcher, and solve Steam Overlay’s problem. And here it is:
1. First of all, add Guild Wars 2 to Steam library as non-Steam game (Library – Add a game – Add non-steam game and search for Guild Wars 2).
2. Then go to Guild Wars 2 shortcut in Steam Library, open Properties and in Target line, after “… gw2.exe” add these commands:
-email youremail -password yourpassword -nopatchui
So Target should look like this:
“X:\pathtogame\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -email youremail@gmail.com -password yourpassword123 -nopatchui
NOTE: If your password includes spaces, type it in " ", example:
“X:\pathtogame\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -email youremail@gmail.com -password “your password 123” -nopatchui
And that’s it! Now Steam Overlay should work if it didin’t before.
And I’m sorry for my “not perfect”, bad english.skills