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Doesn't show up as in-game when it claims to be idling #87

Open Zerathos opened 9 years ago

Zerathos commented 9 years ago

Idle Master is connected and in-game, but Steam does not recognize this and thus no cards are dropped.

andrewjmetzger commented 9 years ago

@Zerathos I have experienced this issue as well, most notably when I launched a second game (to play) and the timer expired for whichever game was idling. The timer would expire, and then, according to Steam. I was no longer idling the first game.

Are any other games running in the background? On Windows 7, open Task Manager (press 'ctrl + shift + esc`) and look for game processes (the process of whichever game is idling should not appear. The only Steam or game-related processes running should be Steam.exe, steamwebhelper.exe, IdleMaster.exe, and steam-idle.exe. (Tip: Check "show processes from all users" if the Steam and Idle Master EXEs are not shown.)

Below is what task manager's process list should look like, note the running processes. (Sorry for the blur!)
relevant processes

Hope this helps!

Zerathos commented 9 years ago

Well it's a little hard to check months after the event, but I do seem to recall checking that and not seeing anything. It only happened that one time, and restarting the program fixed it.