[Dark Souls 2] Opening Steam Overlay Causes Freeze / Crash

[peterth]

[Dark Souls 2] Opening Steam Overlay Causes Freeze / Crash

[PeterTh]

I just tried reproducing this with the current version, and couldn't.

[VackerSimon]

Download the latest version of the DLL here: https://github.com/PeterTh/gedosato/raw/master/pack/GeDoSaTo.dll and try setting loadSteamOverlayEarly false in the config and see if it makes any difference.

[ribonuge]

Thanks for the replies!

I tried your suggestion and downloaded the DLL but this time the actual gedosato application crashed when I loaded up DSII so I was unable to test if it fixed the issue.

With that failing, I subsequently tried reverting to each previous version of the application as I was quite certain that this crash was only occurring in recent versions.

After rolling back, I have discovered that I don't experience any issues with the Beta 6 release "Stranger than Fiction". Beta 7 onwards causes the overlay to crash the game.

I'm not sure if this is relevant but I also had "start as administrator" checked in the shortcut. I noticed that if I uncheck this I get a "Privilege Error" when attempting to launch in gedosato beta 7 and onwards: "Please run GeDoSaToTool as Administrator (to enable dll injection)" This does not occur with Beta 6.

One last thing and again I'm unsure if it's relevant but I have been experiencing, along with many others, a Visual C++ error R6025 (http://steamcommunity.com/app/236430/discussions/search/?q=runtime+error&p=1) when I close DSII properly from the menu. It doesn't happen when I use Alt+F4 however.

I'm happy that I at least have a temporary fix with the Beta 6 version!

[PeterTh]

If you try the current dll you also need to use the latest ini, otherwise it will crash.

The privilege error is exactly as intended.

[ribonuge]

I got gedosato working with latest ini and dll and loadSteamOverlayEarly set to false, but the overlay still crashes the game with the same error message in the log:

hkIDirect3DSwapChain9::GetPresentParameters

[ribonuge]

UPDATE: It turns out that having "run as administrator" checked on the darksoulsII.exe will cause the overlay to crash the game. I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't consider it previously.

Anyway, everything is working perfectly now!