Minecraft – How to activate Steam Overlay on non Steam games

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I was trying to get my friend to watch me on Minecraft, (I launched it through Steam), and it said that it was waiting for my broadcast to start. (No overlay)

How do I add the Steam overlay on my Minecraft?

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You would have to add Minecraft as a non-steam game.

Go to Steam and click "Add Non-Steam Game to My Library", then select Minecraft or find Minecraft.exe.

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As written here by developers is a known bug.

Steam Overlay: Looking in to this one. It’d be quite ideal to get this working.

Update: It will be fixed in next patch.

Yes! Steam overlay now confirmed to be working with the latest patch. (tweet)

When the patch 1.0.3 will be live add -opengl to Steam launch parameters to enable Steam overlay (experimental)

Steam – Why can’t I take screenshots in the Steam games

There is a bug with Steam under Wine, where the overlay causes some games to crash.

To prevent this, Winetricks installs Steam with one library override:

gameoverlayrenderer.dll (disabled)

Which, naturally, disables the Steam overlay, and the in-game functions it provides, such as screenshotting.

To change this, open winecfg in the proper wineprefix (for me, Winetricks made it ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam, so I used WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam winecfg), and change it. I set it to Native then Builtin, and so far it seems to be working fine...

Unless you must have the overlay, I would disable this again when you're done taking your screenshots to prevent it from messing anything else up.

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