Minor Gripe With Steam Shortcut

coolitic · August 2016

The shortcut for NS2 created by steam doesn't have an icon and the way I deal with it is change the shortcut's icon to match the executable's. I'm sure that this doesn't look good aesthetically for new players so can you guys fix this?

Absurdon · August 2016

I think that's a general issue with steam. i personaly don't use desktop shortcuts for my steam games but saw it at a friends pc that all his steam games don't have the right icon by default. I can only guess here but i think it's an issue on how steam shortcuts work as they don't direct to an executeable but are more like a link u can make from ur browser. steam:// ... with some commands so windows has no hint on what the icon should be by default. dunno if there is a workaround

edit: just saw that uplay does it the same way but the icon seems to be right so jeah still not quite sure what causes that to happen with steam

coolitic · August 2016

No, throughout my 2 different pc's and windows re-installations, I have never seen this except for NS2.

Absurdon · August 2016

true. just tested on my own pc with some games. only ns2 did not give me the right icon

Bicsum · August 2016

It's a problem on UWEs side.

There is no IconFile given in the lnk-file. It should be "IconFile=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Steam\steam\games\9c418dc61465964935e86db89e17526584e9d3f8.ico" and there should be an NS2 "9c418dc61465964935e86db89e17526584e9d3f8.ico" in that folder.

I'm assuming that UWE needs to define an icon file in the steam NS2 release options. IDK.

I went ahead and converted the included png icon file to ".ico".

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Yojimbo · August 2016

Bicsum wrote: »

It's a problem on UWEs side.

There is no IconFile given in the lnk-file. It should be "IconFile=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Steam\steam\games\9c418dc61465964935e86db89e17526584e9d3f8.ico" and there should be an NS2 "9c418dc61465964935e86db89e17526584e9d3f8.ico" in that folder.

I'm assuming that UWE needs to define an icon file in the steam NS2 release options. IDK.

I went ahead and converted the included png icon file to ".ico".

Thats pretty awesome dude, its the little things that count. thank you.

coolitic · August 2016

I just change the icon in the shortcuts properties by making it use the executable's icon.

UWE, you guys gonna fix this?

Foxy · August 2016

@remi pls fix thx bae

Vivisector · August 2016

Same thing here. I actually had the right icon for a very brief moment, maybe a period of about a month, but before and after that I've consistently had the incorrect icon.

Minor Gripe With Steam Shortcut

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