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Fool Steam to take screenshots
By ʜᴜɴɢʀʏ ɢʜᴏꜱᴛ
In this guide, I'll present you how to trigger the overlay for the game as it doesn't natively support any of the games from the Sands trilogy. Note this workaround is pretty limited: you're only granted the ability to take screenshots and see your FPS, you can't access the UI and other features like you normally would. This method also works for Warrior Within and supposedly The Two Thrones.
   
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The trick
In order to do so, we're gonna force the overlay exe to run on top of the game.

  • First, launch the game and alt-tab to get out.

  • Open the run command by pressing Win + R (the Windows logo key + R).

  • Now depending where your Steam is installed, paste the path leading to the GameOverlayUI.exe in followed by -pid **** -manuallyclearframes 0
    here's an example if you have the default path when installed on the C drive:
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\GameOverlayUI.exe" -pid **** -manuallyclearframes 0

    You'll notice there are **** after the process identifier (pid), well the reason is simple: it refers to an active process explaining why it changes every time you boot up the game, therefore you'll have to edit this number anytime you'll play.

  • To find the current pid, open the task manager by either pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete then choose task manager or directly with Ctrl + Shift + Esc. Once open, go to the Details tab and scroll down until you find POP.EXE, next to it will be a random number and that is your session pid. You can now replace the **** with this number and hit enter.

  • Go back into the game and try to take a screenshot, if you hear the famous jingle it's on! If not, wait some more seconds, I usually know it instantly because I have the FPS counter on meaning the limited overlay is running.
    You probably won't see the pop-up saying a shot was taken but as long as you hear the sound it saved one.

As I was saying earlier, this knack works for Warrior Within but I couldn't get it to show up for The Two Thrones for some reason (maybe because I had mods?). EDIT: Prince of Persia (2008) too.
Anyway, here you go, have fun folks!


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