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Hello there!
Just a quick fix because of issue #138 because of an oversight on my part.
Additionally, there seems to be some problems with some dependencies of the project on some Windows technical preview, so, if you have an error while loading the program or while trying to export games, also report your windows version, so that i can attempt to reproduce it.
Changes and new features of this version:
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This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima 6 months ago
Hello there!
I'm refactoring the project a bit in the coming days, in order to both improve the reliability of the project, since it has been quite a few long years since i created it, and while it does work, it does not represent the quality of the code i'm able to produce these days and to make it easier to extend the project with better functionality. So this is a small preparation for the probable V3 of the project, it may take a while, but it will be worth it. I'll be closing most most PR's while i refactor the code and add tests to guarantee the quality of the project.
Changes and new features of this version:
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter. Please, also send the contents of the log file located in %appdata%/briano/uwphook/
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Hey people, a few fixes for today:
Thanks @stevealexandre for the recent contributions 🎉
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima about 2 years ago
Hello again!
Thanks to the contribution of @stevealexandre we have a great fix:
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima about 2 years ago
Hi people, hope you all are well
Sorry for delaying this new release for so long, had a lot going on this past year, and could not get up to all these issues, but i finally bring good news:
Failed to load SteamUI.dll
, just click ok and manually relaunch Steam.If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima about 3 years ago
I never thought we would get so many contributions 🥲
We have a fix to a critical bug that was bothering some users for some time, as described in #72
And thanks to the contributions of @EnumC, we have a few features
The app will no longer create duplicated entries, will update existing shortcuts if trying to export an identical app
Properly handle error responses from SteamGridDB and display a nice message before exiting
Properly fit the SteamGridDB key in the settings page
(Only for devs/contributions) A debug option to clean shortcuts during development
When UWPHook as re-serializing pre-existing shortcuts, it changed some properties read by Steam, changing the value of the appid Steam uses to track the link between games and the custom grid artwork, this update will no longer tamper with these shortcuts and will keep your library tidy and clean 😄
Also, since some people reported that some anti-viruses are mistakenly reporting the attached zip as "malware", i'll be naming the zipped version of releases as UWPHook.zip
from now on, since Release.zip
seems to be used by some malwares, causing this false-positive.
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima about 3 years ago
Hey guys!
Thanks to the contributions of @Camology we have a very important bug fix this patch:
This should fix the problems that some people have when trying to export Yakuza games and some others to Steam. Since i can't reproduce the problem, i'm looking forward for some feedback. Additionally, you can download new .net framework versions here at Microsoft
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima over 3 years ago
Hey guys!
In version 2.9 i bring to you two features and a bug fix to an overlook i had in the last release
UWPHook can now send additional launch options to apps, just add the options needed to the end of the launch options box in the settings of the game inside Steam, like you would normally do to any other game, the options will be read and given to the respective app upon launch, confirmed working with Endless Space 2 and --enablemoddingtools, not working with Tetris Effect and --vr
In addition, 2.9.1 fixes a bug reported by a few users on our subreddit:
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima almost 4 years ago
Hey guys!
In version 2.9 i bring to you two features and a bug fix to an overlook i had in the last release
UWPHook can now send additional launch options to apps, just add the options needed to the end of the launch options box in the settings of the game inside Steam, like you would normally do to any other game, the options will be read and given to the respective app upon launch, confirmed working with Endless Space 2 and --enablemoddingtools, not working with Tetris Effect and --vr
Added a "Export with these tags" to the settings page, which will attempt to add tags to newly exported games, by default "Xbox,Ready to play", it works sometimes, the new 'collections' in the library seems to not always use these
Fixed a crash reported by some users on our subreddit
Example of an additional launch option added to Endless Space 2:
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima almost 4 years ago
Hello there!
This new version main feature is a long time coming, UWPHook can now automatically import Icons, Hero and Grid images from SteamGridDB, a very known and cool community project, by simply providing a SteamGridDB api key in the settings page, you will get a prettier Steam library like this:
Special thanks to @FusRoDah061 for implementing the core of this functionality!
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima almost 4 years ago
Hi guys, thanks for coming all this way!
Today i bring you a few improvements to bugs and usage, brought to you by our amazing contributors, a few improvements to our app that should position it well when people search for Xbox Game Pass too, and an improved installer and a script to keep this improved installer in future releases!
Special thanks to all the wonderful contributors pointing out my mistakes and helping the project @FusRoDah061 @FlaminSarge @Jesper-Hustad @SoulRepo.
Tested, everything seems to be working fine.
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook or ping me at our issues or my Twitter.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima over 4 years ago
Hi guys, long time no see! The reports of the death of the project have been greatly exaggerated, just trying to not break what works.
Today i bring a small set of changes that fix some small bugs that might plague some users, and one fix that fixes a major bug that went too long without being noticed:
There is now a new simpler installer that uses NSIS instead of AdvancedInstaller.
Tested, everything seems to be working fine. No big new features this times.
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Just minor fixes, the change log is boring, so let's use the one from the previous version:
Hi guys, a few users reported some issues recently with the 2.5.0 version of UWPHook, this update addresses those:
Fixed 'value range' error when adding Sea of Thieves to Steam and launching it. Gears of War Ultimate Edition probably had the same issue.
Improved the new fullscreen launcher for Streaming games so it won't look like it is frozen/crashed.
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!"
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima over 6 years ago
Hi guys, a few users reported some issues recently with the 2.5.0 version of UWPHook, this update addresses those:
Fixed 'value range' error when adding Sea of Thieves to Steam and launching it. Gears of War Ultimate Edition probably had the same issue.
Improved the new fullscreen launcher for Streaming games so it won't look like it is frozen/crashed.
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to support me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!"
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima over 6 years ago
Hi guys, long time no see!
Sorry for looking like this project died, it's just that i can't find a non-hacky way to make some things like proper joystick while streaming work, and making a half-assed feature would break a lot of things.
I've brought this release with a few improvements:
Hope you guys like this! The project could be not updated in a while, but it's not dead.
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to suport me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!"
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima over 7 years ago
Kept you waiting huh.
Hi people, sorry for the long time I kept you waiting for this fix, I know this bug has been around for quite some time but I just didn't had the time to debug it, but now it is here:
IN-HOME STREAMING FIXED!
These fixes I've worked are functional over here at least and now UWP Games are all working as before, I still haven't found a workaround for the controllers, but since Steam now has an Xbox 360 configurator akin to the Steam Controller I might be capable of doing more progress towards remote streaming with controller support without needing to use a third party tool like VirtualHere.
Enjoy UWPHook!
If you face bugs or have questions, head over to our subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/UWPHook.
This software is open-source under the MIT License.
If you like what i did with it and want to suport me, you can cheer me up at my Twitter or pay me a coffee via Paypal, it will help me to continue to build amazing open source tools for you!"
Thanks for your support, and game on!
Published by BrianLima about 8 years ago
Now, UWPHook will automatically add your UWP apps and games to Steam, it detects every app on your system and with a single click, adds them to Steam, including setting it's icon!
And on the settings page you will find a new option, called "Enable streaming mode", check this in the host computer to fix in-home streaming for UWP games.
Check detailed instructions at https://brianlima.github.io/UWPHook/
Enjoy your much better UWPHook!
2.2.1: Fixes a problem with apps that had protected or invalid images, fixing mainly the problem with Forza Horizon 3. Also, from now on I will upload releases on .zip format.
PS: If you have one of the releases before 2.0, please, re-add your UWP games to Steam using the new version.
Published by BrianLima about 8 years ago
Now, UWPHook will automatically add your UWP apps and games to Steam, it detects every app on your system and with a single click, adds them to Steam!
Check detailed instructions at https://brianlima.github.io/UWPHook/
Enjoy your much better UWPHook!
PS: If you have one of the older releases, please, re-add your UWP games to Steam using the new version.
2.1.4: Fixes users with corrupted or too short VDF config files and fixes Forza Apex not showing up as a installed app.
2.1.2: This release gets the real name for all the apps installed on your pc, and excludes framworks, making it easier to find what you want, for example, Forza Horizon should be called "Forza Horizon 3" instead of Microsoft.OpusPG.
2.1.1: Some users had corrupted apps installed on their machines, this aims to fix that,
2.1.0: Last patch i published something that wasn't quite working. This fixes both that and users that don't have any shortcut added on Steam before running UWPHook.
Published by BrianLima about 8 years ago
I just got Forza Horizon, played it for 30 minutes and went to fix it, so i found that not every name on appsfolder is the name that we should use to make the shell call metro apps, but i'm working on a fix, meanwhile, this release contains the correct appurl for Horizon.
Published by BrianLima about 8 years ago
Now, when you launch your game from Steam, UWPHook will run silently on the background, making the experience seamless once configured on Steam, it will check every five seconds if your game is running, if it is not, UWPHook will close it self.