A simple guide to enabling your Steam Overlay while running Oblivion Remastered Script Extender (“OBSE”) without needing to add and run OBSE as a separate “Non-Steam Game”
What This Guide is For
However, for OBSE to run properly, it must be launched directly which, in most instances, prevents the Steam Overlay (screenshots, recording, FPS counter, in game friend chat etc) from enabling.
One alternative solution to this problem is to add the script extender to your Steam Library as a separate “Non-Steam Game” and to run it that way. While this will enable the Steam Overlay, it will also treat what you’re launching as an entirely separate game, saving your screenshots to a different folder and so on.
As I’m sure this largely arbitrary distinction is unacceptable for many people (including myself), I have outlined below how you can run OBSE on Steam, with your Steam Overlay and without needing to add OBSE as a separate “game”.
The Fix
Right Click on Oblivion Remastered in Your Steam Library and select “Properties”
In the ‘General’ tab, paste the following into Launch Options:
“X:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Oblivion Remastered\OblivionRemastered\Binaries\Win64\obse64_loader.exe” — %command%
with “X” being the drive Steam is located on (“C:”, “D:” etc) and what is within the quotations being the path on your computer to the OBSE executable.
If you do not enter it as above, with the path to your OBSE launcher in quotations followed by — and %command%, it will either not run OBSE or OBSE will return an error. For reference, the box in which you are pasting the above into looks like this:
PROTIP: If your Steam folder and/or OBSE launcher is located somewhere different than above, you can immediately copy and paste its location into your launch options by going to the OBSE launcher in your files, right clicking it and clicking “Copy as Path” Once you’ve done that, simply return to the launch options and hit your paste key for the entire address to immediately be entered.
Conclusion
