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[SOLVED] - Urban Chaos won't work with Steam overlay

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First post, by Azurex

Posted on 2016-02-10, 23:42

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I recently purchased Urban Chaos on Steam, and no matter what I try, I cannot get the Steam overlay to work with this game.

The launcher only allows you to select 16-bit or 24-bit color, so I'm thinking that this might be the issue? However, I have seen other players manage to get it working, as there are screenshots for the game on the Steam community page - ontop of that, I haven't seen a single complaint of the overlay not working outside of my own.

I'm running Windows 10 currently.

Can anybody help?

Last edited by Azurex on 2016-02-12, 00:43. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 3, by teleguy

Posted on 2016-02-11, 14:33

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It's a DirectX 7 game. The Steam overlay only works with DirectX 8+.

There are only two people who posted screenshots. They probably used this complicated way to upload them manually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCgX-lSl2kg

However you can use a wrapper like dgVoodoo that translates the game's DirectX 7 to something else and the Steam overlay will work.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedet … s/?id=621504313

Reply 2 of 3, by MrEWhite

Posted on 2016-02-11, 21:49

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Use dgVoodoo2, Blood 2 and WinQuake works with the steam overlay with that.

Reply 3 of 3, by Azurex

Posted on 2016-02-12, 00:29

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teleguy wrote:
It's a DirectX 7 game. The Steam overlay only works with DirectX 8+. […]
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It's a DirectX 7 game. The Steam overlay only works with DirectX 8+.

There are only two people who posted screenshots. They probably used this complicated way to upload them manually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCgX-lSl2kg

However you can use a wrapper like dgVoodoo that translates the game's DirectX 7 to something else and the Steam overlay will work.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedet … s/?id=621504313

Ah! Well, it's good to know it wasn't just me then. Thanks for this.

MrEWhite wrote:
Use dgVoodoo2, Blood 2 and WinQuake works with the steam overlay with that.

You have just made me a very happy person

I can now run pretty much any old game I like with the Steam overlay thanks to dgVoodoo2. Thank you so much!

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