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Workaround for Steam crashing while streaming to Steam Link
By ReBoot
Im talking about sudden Steam crashes that happen when streaming to the Link. While I cant prevent Steam from crashing (not even Valve can), I can restart Steam automatically so I can keep sitting on my butt in my living room without going to the bedroom and restart Steam manually.
   
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ReBoot
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Just Cause 2
Category: Modding or Configuration
Languages: English
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30 Oct, 2016 @ 5:51am
25 Apr, 2017 @ 8:45am
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The workaround 
Build it yourself 
Disclaimer 
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The workaround
Steam Nanny runs a low-priority watch dog that checks if Steam is down once a minute and restarts it if it is.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlN7g8lbRD78kaFqqkARIuTReBb-cg
Build it yourself
Source code included so you can compile yourself if you don't trust me. Compile with Visual Studio (the easy way) or with csc.exe (the geeky way), the C# compiler that comes with .NET.
Disclaimer
After I've implemented this workaround, Valve implemented a very similar "solution" to the crashing problem. In fact, hey had the same idea: Simply restart it! I'm keeping the guide up for historical reasons.
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Leander Hyperion 12 Jan, 2017 @ 10:20am 
Cool idea! Runs great on my machine, too. TFTC (Thanx for the Code :steamhappy: ).