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Ezzpify / HourBoostr

Two programs for idling Steam game hours and trading cards
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Megathread: "SingleBoostr is not working for me!" + workaround #206

Open hanzbadua opened 3 years ago

hanzbadua commented 3 years ago

Please see here now for an updated version, workaround below is no longer required

~~The current SingleBoostr client which allows you to choose which apps you want to idle is currently broken right now. The background exe which emulates running steamapps via appid however is still functional. You can download a working console-based client that I made over here Download the latest 7z archive (named SingleBoostr.Release.7z) and extract with 7zip.~~

~~(Instructions to use the new client are in the releases page I linked, but I'll leave the instructions here for clarity) After you extracted the 7z archive, open applist.txt and put the appIds of the games you want to idle - one appId per line For example, if I wanted to idle Celeste, Risk of Rain 2, and FTL: Faster Than Light, then the following contents of my applist.txt would be~~

504230
632360
212680

~~Afterwards, you can choose to configure the config.ini file (currently only has one setting, more will be added as ideas are suggested) The only setting so far is SecondsUntilRestart, which defines the amount of seconds to idle before restarting a random idling process - this is to ensure Steam keeps counting your idled time. (default interval is 3600 seconds, aka 1 hour)~~

Lastly, run SingleBoostr.Client.exe in order to start idling your specified games (don't run SingleBoostr.IdlingProcess.exe, that exe is a helper exe and represents/emulates running steam apps with a certain appId)

If you have any issues, respond to this issue or create a new issue in my forked repository

Known issues: Idling "special" appids (aka Steam itself - appid 753, Greenlight - appid 765, etc) seems to not work at all

Jeje2201 commented 3 years ago

Work like a sharm, well done man !

You should try to contact the dev so you can merge your work here and people that doesn't know how to look into issues to find your solution can still enjoy this app

(and might want to add a special message if the steam client isn't started, because I had trouble until I read again your instruction, the error message didn't really said that it came from that)

hanzbadua commented 3 years ago

@Jeje2201 Aware of the poor error messaging, will fix soon

I think a fork is more appropriate right now as if I was to make a pull request with this, it'd completely get rid of the cool UI features (which is what originally compelled me to use SingleBoostr in the first place) in the original repo, and I don't think that's the author's wishes

Ni1kko commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/Ni1kko/HourBoostr/releases/tag/4.1.7