Just curious here. I only play on PC through Steam.
How does the system work. When I exit the game I am taken back to Steam. The game shows as running then stops.
The game used to stop within about a minute. Now it continues to run, and run, and run, etc.
How does Steam know that I have finished playing. Does Steam get a notification from Funcom to ‘save’ and ‘stop’ the game.
Is the ‘game still running’ problem originating from Steam or Funcom.
I’ve had no reply from Steam.
I know how to terminate programs. My question is how does the PC know the process has finished. Is it Steam or Funcom that notifies the PC to end the game.
The system knows when a process is finished when the process returns an exit code within it’s main function.
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
return 0; // Program/process ends here
}
The above code demonstrates a very simple program. When it gets executed it immediatly returns 0 to the system. By returning 0, the system (e.g. Windows) knows that the process should exit. This also would tell Steam that the program is done so it can change your status from Green to Blue (or whatever).
I do not know how much knowledge you have about computers or programming, but if you really want to tell Steam to stop telling you that Conan is running, you need to kill the process “ConanSandbox.exe”.
It seems that ConanSandbox is doing some cleanup tasks before returning a code to the system. Maybe it is waiting for an API call and runs into a timeout (30 seconds). We never know until we would disassemble the game, which would be against Funcom’s TOS.
This Post is open. This problem have a lot of Players and its a fault per Funcom i think. The exe doesnt close, with or without mods and running endless when you play the exe longer then five minutes. Maybe its a issue with the new devkit or whatever. It could be anything, or it could be nothing.This starts a few weeks ago. It could also be due to mods in general, but it might not be, as it happens to players who use mods that I don’t use for example. However, the exe didn’t close for me even in vanilla status, which could possibly be a problem with the exe and a ‘silent’ hotfix that may have been done directly by Steam and Funcom? Without notice? I don’t know. Perhaps someone else could try it with a fresh game without mods; I can’t shake the feeling that it’s a combination of both.
No problem, I don’t know Funcom’s coding either, and there are so many mods and factors involved these days. You have to rule out the possibility that you yourself are the problem. But after checking, that’s not the case here. Something must have happened. I’m surprised that more people aren’t reporting this issue, as all my friends are experiencing it. My wife is too, which means I’ve tested two settings, both fresh and with mods. Both gave the same result, which is why I wanted to push this thread as high as possible, as I think that’s the only way to get a response.
