Beta selection for Steam and GOG Integration.
ScottVordem opened this issue · comments
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I think it would be nice to have the ability to choose which beta build to use for Steam games. GOG has this ability also, but there isn't a lot of games that use it.
Look at Garry's Mod for example. There are a different builds to choose from. It would be nice to have this ability in Playnite, but I am not sure if it is possible. Some games have private betas only accessible with a code, so not sure how to integrate those.
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Being able to choose a version from this list from within Playnite, or the ability to open this window from Playnight.
Not possible. Steam doesn't expose this externally as far as I know and it requires new download anyways that needs to be performed inside the original client.
Tried looking around myself and I may have found a way, although not sure how to integrate it into playnite.
I discovered that the branch information is stored in the appmanifest_<steam app id>.acf files located in the steamapps folder in the library directory the game is installed in. (If the game is installed in a different location other than the default, it will the steamapps folder in that directory).
Manually changing the BetaKey value under the UserConfig section in the file and restarting steam, causes Steam to update the game to that branch. Simply setting the value to none will go back to the regular branch.
Sometimes that value will need to be added to the file manually, because if the game isn't in a different branch already the BetaKey entry isn't there at all.
You can find branch names with SteamDB.
If you do find a way to integrate this (if at all), might be best to add an option to hide branches that require a password. I don't how the password system works for steam so I don't know where it goes/where it is stored.
Not a fan of modifying random Steam files. I'm not going to implement this unless Steam provides an official way to control this outside of Steam.