Steam launches successfully but games won't start

[roseyhead]

I'm running the latest version on a RPi 2B and it loads the Steam interface just fine but it won't actually launch any games. I get the screen with the big Play button and hit it, then the screen fades out for a moment and fades back in to the same screen.

I don't see any related errors generated by Limelight in the logs on my rpi but on the PC I'm streaming from I found that it generated a folder named NVIDIA.SteamLauncher with a file named Log.txt with the following information:

22:13:11 [0x00000D6C, ERROR] Launcher::Launch threw an exception Failed to handshake PrepareAppLaunch request

so I went and found the configuration file for NVIDIA.SteamLauncher.exe and found I could change the logging level so I set it from Error to Debug and it gives me the following information:

00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Logger successfully initialized at 'D:\Steam\steamapps\common\The Talos Principle\NVIDIA.SteamLauncher\Log.txt' 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Running Version = 1.1 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] SteamLauncher input parameters (count = 2) = 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] 0 = C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvStreamSrv\SteamLauncher\NVIDIA.SteamLauncher.exe 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] 1 = D:\Steam\steamapps\common\The Talos Principle\Bin\Talos.exe 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Initializing static connection 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Launching in 'Shield' mode 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Entering Launcher::Launch. Args = port=3000, address=127.0.0.1, path="D:\Steam\steamapps\common\The Talos Principle\Bin\Talos.exe" 00:55:05 [0x0000083C, INFO] Connection thread started 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Requesting to prepare for launch 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Sending message : action: "PrepareAppLaunch" prepareAppLaunchArgs { selfProcessId: 2148 versionInfo: "v1.0.0.0" appId: "257510" appPath: "\"D:\Steam\steamapps\common\The Talos Principle\Bin\Talos.exe\"" appArgs: "" } 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Request sent successfully 00:55:05 [0x00001C34, INFO] Waiting for response back to launch the app 00:55:20 [0x00001C34, ERROR] Launcher::Launch threw an exception Failed to handshake PrepareAppLaunch request 00:55:20 [0x0000083C, INFO] Connection thread voluntarily exited 00:55:20 [0x00001C34, INFO] Shutting down logger

I've tried The Talos Principle, Team Fortress 2 and Bioshock Infinite and they all return the same "Failed to handshake PrepareAppLaunch request" error. Bioshock works perfectly from the Limelight app on my Android so I'm sure it's not a game compatibility issue. Is this a known issue? I've been googling around all morning and haven't found a working fix for it.

[roseyhead]

Apparently this was an environmental issue. Streaming fails if Musicbee is open, possibly my remote access plugin is causing a port conflict or something. Close that and streaming starts up as expected.

[zer0future]

u also can start a game from rpi with the -app argument when starting limelight. -> java -jar limelight.jar stream -app NAMEOFTHEGAME The Game name is listed in the GFE setting on your Host Computer. Limelight shows the Games when you start limelight with: -> java -jar limelight.jar discover And the name's can be changed like u want, by adding games in GFE -> GameStream

[praij90]

I'm having this issue right now... Its very strange, when I start the game up using the -app modifier and the name of the game it works fine. When running moonlight stream my.ip steam starts up without any problems. However, when attempting to launch any of the games it indicates the game is loading. Shortly after (2-5s) the game fails to load without any indication of an error.

I have tried several games that do work when addressed directly via the -app modifier and do not work when started through steam.

Please advise and thanks in advance.