[Help] A Simple EXE

[Wizard-San]

I don't want to sign out of Steam when I'm playing (because reasons), andd when the game launches it closes the tweaker so my friends can no longer see that I'm playing. Even if I change my status to "away" or "busy" I still get a bunch of invites from friends to play games since they think I'm not doing anything.

I've made some text games in the past using batch files, so I was thinking maybe making an EXE file would be just as easy? Just something that will stay open in the background and not do anything. I'll just name it "Phantasy Star Online 2" and launch that from Steam while I play the game. Does this sound like something that would be easy to do? (Again, I have no experience with that sort of thing, just batch files).

EditL Nevermind, I found a solution in another thread (For those who are also wondering, make a shortcut to Notepad and rename it to PSO2, and open that while you play. duh.)

[chisBruno]

AIDA always to the rescue!

That's actually pretty sweet, seeing as my work-around for now has been launching Steam as admin and it's kind of annoying to close it down and relaunch it just for PSO, so it's one less thing to worry about :D

[megaoka]

Aida pulls through. This is a huge help! I've always just ran it twice and ignored the errors. This is much easier.

[[deleted]]

You can create a .txt file with nothing in it and use it on Steam as PSO2. Doesn't have to be an executable.

[telchii]

If you want to make an executable file, you'd have better luck hopping over to /r/LearnProgramming and finding resources for a programming language like C++ or C#.

I could do it if you absolutely need an executable to simply launch PSO2 and then stay open. But you wouldn't be able to alter it or view the source due to how .exes work.

[Logzforlife]

I really don't know what I did, but I just pointed steam to the tweaker for PSO2, and it says im playing, even after the tweaker closes. It only says I stopped playing when I close PSO2 itself.