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Windows Store / UWP Support?

  • 20 January 2021
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Hey guys,

I have been wondering if there are any plans to support the hooks for UWP / Windows store games? I know it's a very niche and small store in comparison to Steam, Epic, Gog, etc. But with the rise of xbox games becoming available day one for the PC as well and their live pass (or whatever they call it) it's becoming more enticing to grab up a game or two and perhaps even subscribe to the game service. The major issue is, these games are not showing up in cortex or synapse due the the DRM.

Example:
I just recently redeemed a giftcard that was given to me over the holidays for Rage 2 and Resident Evil VII on the windows store. I reluctantly purchased them lol (i prefer steam) - but anyways. Upon installing Rage 2, cortex picked it up at first, however it wasn't tracking fps or able to launch the game or even go into boost mode. I removed the game from cortex and tried to re-add it. I can't add it back to cortex because cortex doesn't support the UWP / Windows store drm or file paths used by the store copies of games.

Since this game in particular (rage 2) has hooks for synapse support, you'd think you could use it to control the chroma. Unfortunately, the game cannot be added to synapse either, so you can't even take advantage of the awesome chroma effects in the game.

Anyways. I don't particularly care about windows store games very much as I prefer the dedicated game stores that don't have silly DRM practices in place for games you pay for, but it would be nice to see support added for those rare occasions where games may come from this abomination of a store. Game pass has been growing so it seems like something to look into.

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