PSA If Steam Link client is loading forever or cursor doesn't move. PSA extra relevant if you're struggling with LA Noire
It might be that Steam on your host is unable to hook the game because it's not running as administrator.
Warning: the following steps will reduce the security of your PC in a nonzero way. Do not follow these steps if you don’t understand why you’re doing them and what they’re doing. You can use Moonlight instead (emphasis on “can”).
Warning: Do not follow these steps if lowering the security of your computer is not a safe thing to do.
Use Properties>Compatibility tab>Administrator checkbox to fix that. Personally I pressed start, typed steam, and set the compatibility>administrator on that and it worked after terminating steam, rockstar, and la noire and launching again.
Note: Rockstar seems to lie and give up immediately when:
- Steam is running as administrator
- You try to launch LA Noire through Steam's "Play L.A. Noire" non-steam game entry. (It's probably seeing that the steam process is administrator and immediately giving up)
^ To solve the above, you should connect to the host directly instead of trying to make it work cleanly with a pretty LA Noire game library entry (like I did for far too long)
- On the client: Steam > Settings > Remote Play > Locate your host and click the Connect button on it (right side of the screen)
- Launch the game normally.
- If you still lose access on windows that are running as administrator, then steam* is still not administrator at this moment (*the steam process on the host (not the client))
If you need to terminate everything with a script (at your own risk), here's the part of the script that did that for me. I'm not comfortable releasing a executable script so you will need to do the basic steps to make this executable, and you will do so strictly at your own risk. Remember it forcibly instantly closes processes that match the search terms. Use the following code strictly at your own risk. Also don't use bat because batch files cannot accept ps1 commands. It took me way too long to figure that one out.
Stop-Process -Name steam,steamwebhelper -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Stop-Process -Name launcher,socialclubhelper,lanlauncher,lanoire,rockstarservice -Force -ErrorAction