There is a fix for the Steam Overlay issue?

I have found some threads about the Steam overlay + UltimateFullscreen that was causing trouble to some developers, but those threads don't have a solution for this.
We have a game soon to be released on Steam, and we are using Fusion and a custom CRT shader for the game.
Our last game "Oniken" was supposed to be released with this shader effect, but we couldn't fix this issue earlier and then Oniken was released without the CRT shader.

Now we need to release this new game with the shader. Everything is fine when you test the game .EXE standalone, but when we launch the game trough Steam, the overlay shows up, and quickly after the first frame when our team logo appears and the frame changes, the screen freezes and the game continue to run in background (you can hear the sounds and even play the game, but with the screen frozen at the first frame).

There is a fix for this? I was suspecting it was Ultimate Fullscreen object, but we had removed it completely and the problem still persists...

Our shader in action: http://imgur.com/4z6hilF

Thanks.

Hey Keyo!

I'm not sure about this, but if it's Steam overlay causing this problem you could write in Steam Development group and ask Valve to disable Steam overlay for your game.
At least I've seen some people doing this, so I guess it's possible? Not sure though, just a thought.

Fingers crossed you're able to solve it and good luck with the launch! :)

Thanks J3sseM!
Digging into the Steam Dev group, there are some devs that asked for Valve for completely disable the Steam overlay on those games (I'm very sure that one of them was a Fusion game too).
Looks like Fusion made games don't work well with Steam overlay.
Sadly I think that this is the way... that means that our game will not have support to Steam Broadcast and Big Picture mode.

Does this mean without the shader (on a layer?) the Steam overlay works fine?

You can easily test by building an .exe and going to your Steam library -> add a game -> non-steam game. When you run your game through Steam you can see how the overlay works.
It should work in real fullscreen, maybe in windowed too? I once tried but can't quite recall. However if you use UFS or maximize and keep the aspect ratio, add the bars, it does not work properly. I think Steam overlay checks the application window for overlay, but the visible area for bindings or something funny.

Found the fix, we disabled COMPRESS RUNTIME option on our game and it works great now! =)

Wait, that's been the problem the whole time?!?! Wow! Yeah, nobody should use that feature anyways, for several reasons, one of them being that it makes virus scanners go berserk.

Fix for what? Crashes?
I don't think that fixes the overlay problem though. Not for me at least. :)

Yeah that just fixes the crash with the shader afaik. Still a problem where the Steam overlay has the wrong mouse co-ordinates if using Ultimate Fullscreen.

Ah, okay. It wasn't clear from that person's post. Well, I guess we'll just have to wait for a solution or go without either the Steam overlay or the Ultimate Fullscreen object, then, for any of us releasing a game on Steam anytime soon...

I'm running Ultimate Fullscreen and the Steamworks object in my game and have had zero problems. I'm also running uncompressed. I will keep an eye out for this though!
I'm doing a lot of stat tracking in my game, and am also including art packs from some of my friends' games that require you to own the games the art is based on, so disabling the Steamworks object isn't really an option.

The issue arises when the game is not the same resolution as the monitor being used to display it on using UFS. I'm developing at 1920x1080 (16:9) and my main monitor is 1920x1050 (16:10) - UFS adds black bars top and bottom to keep the image looking crisp, but the Steam overlay has incorrect mouse co-ordinates because it thinks the game is being run at 16:9 when in reality it's 16:10.

Ooo interesting. I've tried running my game on my laptop at 1366x768, also 16x9. I've seen it add some one-pixel lines on the side but considering the ratio is the same, nothing nearly as severe as what you're talking about.

Try playing with the different fullscreen types that UFS offers. It's possible that one of them will cooperate better with the Steam Overlay than others. You might have to set the game to stretch just a little bit for Steam to cooperate.

The other option is to use UFS to offer a Windowed mode for your game, like I've done, and that should help users out.

I will have to see if this problem pops up for me. Luckily the only area where it could be a problem in my game is the menus, which are also controllable, at the same time as the mouse no less, with the keyboard AND with a controller. Yes, I'm bragging about control redundancy in my code, so what? XD

Has anyone had any luck with this issue? The closest I can come to a solution is having users manually disable the Steam Overlay before hand.. What's strange is my game works fine until about the fourth Frame and then bugs out, it also occurs if you try to activate full screen mode. On a side note does anyone know a way to make it available to users to disable the Overlay in game? I didn't see anything useful for that within the Steamworks extension.

Can we toggle between UFS and Fusions scaling by toggling their code within event groups? I don't know that this would be a solution, but it's just an idea...

Just a Cleric has this exact problem as well. When I went to maximize the game through the Steam client the picture shows up in the top left hand corner of the screen and everything else is white and freezes up.

What I've done as a compromise for now is increase the size of the game window so that it's almost max size and disabled the maximize button on the header.

I'm so glad I tested this out though, I had no idea this was even an issue until looking through these threads on everything Steam. I always play the game in regular windowed size but my daughter likes to play it maximized and that's how I discovered his problem.

Edit: I should note that I'm not using the UFS object, I use the Window Control Object to make the picture larger.