All Steam Games are missing when editing Game Shortcuts

[terrymacdonald]

Describe the bug Since the latest Steam Client Beta has been released, DisplayMagician is not able to read the Steam Games within the Steam Client. This is because Steam have changed to a new file format, and the library that DisplayMagician uses cannot support the new file format.

We will need to find a new solution for parsing the file format so that Steam Games will be able to be supported.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

• Open up DisplayMagician
• Click on Game Shortcuts
• Click on New
• Look at the list of the Games and all your Steam Games will be missing.

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Reporting Logs If DisplayMagician starts:

• Open DisplayMagician and perform whatever actions are needed to make the bug occur.
• Click on the Settings button on the main DisplayMagician window
• Click on 'Create a Support Zip File' button
• Save the Support Zip File on your computer.
• Come back here, and upload the Support Zip File through your web browser and attach it to this issue.

If DisplayMagician does not:

• Open a terminal window and run C:\Program Files\DisplayMagician\DisplayMagician.exe --trace to create a TRACE-level DisplayMagician.log file.
• The above command will create a DisplayMagician.log file in C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\DisplayMagician\Logs which should contain a LOT of detailed TRACE level log entries.
• Come back here, and upload the DisplayMagician.log file through your web browser and attach it to this issue.
• Also attach the following files to this issue:
  • C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\DisplayMagician\Profiles\DisplayProfiles_2.1.json
  • C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\DisplayMagician\Shortcuts\Shortcuts_2.0.json
  • C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\DisplayMagician\Settings_2.0.json

Enviroment (please complete the following information):

• Windows Version: Windows 11
• DisplayMagician Version: All of them
• Video Card: Asus NVIDIA GTX3070
• Number and make/model of monitors: 2xDell UH2718H, 1x LG G27U17D
• Date of last video driver update: 2023-01-01
• Date of last windows update: 2022-12-25
• Date of last Steam Client Update: 2023-01-03 (Today)

Additional context N/A

[terrymacdonald]

This appears to be at least partially related to #179. There may be a fix available in the ValveKeyValue library, but it requires DisplayMagician to move from using .Net Framework v4.8 over to using .Net 7. This is a major change, and something that will take a while to action.

Changing to .Net 7 means changing some libraries that we currently use, for example the Audioswitcher library to swap audio devices and the NHotkey library for keyboard hotkey support. This will take time to suit out and action, and it will almost certainly mean that shortcuts will need to be recreated. My gut feel is a month before I'll be able to have DisplayMagician converted. .

[terrymacdonald]

ok some big news! I managed to find some code that works with the new Steam format. Turns out they added a binary_vdf SHA-1 hash as a checksum into the structure of the new Steam Beta client. Big props to the SteamDatabase team for figuring that one out! I've tested the new code and it works fine, so now I'm preparing for a new release over the next couple of days.

[terrymacdonald]

For those who can't wait for the automatic upgrade, here is a zip file containing the version I'll be sending out tomorrow:

DisplayMagicianSetup-v2.5.0.350.zip

Hope that makes someone's day! If it does, maybe you may feel predisposed to buymeacoffee or two? I'm saving for a button box to make driving my simracing games easier.

Hope the rest of your day is amazing.

Thanks Terry

[terrymacdonald]

This has been fixed in the latest version of DisplayMagician released here: DisplayMagician v2.5.0

I will close this issue for now as the issue should have been fixed, but please feel free to reopen this if that specific issue is not fixed. If you find a different issue please create a new separate issue so that I can work on them separately.

Thanks Terry