Yea its .. well
I dont THINK its the games causing this per-say
Since I now have 30 games recently bought on steam where achievements dont work,
mainly the work around is to never leave a game to get them
so for Risen 2, killing 2000 monsters has to be done in 1 play without quitting the game, which would take about 30-40 hours of straight play
knights of pen and paper +1 .. has the same issue
only work around is to never quit the game,
but in the case of this game, well, its odd
1. im not sure how or why steam keeps putting the files I listed back,
and no matter what i do the savegames are still there and the stats and achievements.bins and the appmanifest always reappear !
so in the game my fast way to test if its working is to run to the right at the start and knock the apple guy over for the apple achievement, and in the game now, I can get it to pop BACK UP in the game, but steam still doesnt register that nor the cards.. nor the playtime.. says 2 min play (i have about 2 hours in the game now)
sooo
if I uninstall the game and reinstall, the in game achievements DONT POPUP if they already were obtained at any point or any save or any install of the game,
when i remove the files manually (not the saves but the bin's then the in game achievements popup again, but NOT steams achievements
also the game runs in a window, and when i run the config in the app folder, it always errors saying this program didnt install correctly REINSTALL? or just ignore!? etc
but I tried not editing the game options and running it in a window, and as admin and in compat for xp sp3 mode and still nothing makes the achievements work,
I even tried running steam as admin, and not having steam loaded, and running the exe from the games directory itself to launch the bootstrap of steam..
didnt work
also I tried disabling cloud and overlay, also didnt work,
gulp?
this game is so wicked fun, but id really like my cards and achievements!!
and you can see not many can obtain the achievements if you look at GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENTS and see that .1-.2% only of the people playing obtained simple ones like talking to everyone before execution or the simple apple or peeing one etc
aahhgg
if you do find that its steam doing this, pleeeeease get valve to fix this so that all our games work!
seems its not just this game
but I have faith in you guys finding out whats wrong, so lets hope !
let me know so I can let others know!
ty for your time
kal
PS: I even tried erasing all steam games, and reinstalling steam, didnt work either for any of the games in my list of non working card/achievements