Saturday, May 21, 2022

If your linking to games on steam, make sure to add in this to get noticed!

Are you playing games on your twitch or youtube channel and then link back to their steam page?  If so this quick tip may help you get noticed by the developers if your sending traffic there way.

Normally when you link back to a game on steam the format looks like this:

  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/8500/EVE_Online/

But if you want to show up in the developers analytics section you can add in the following:

  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/8500/EVE_Online/?utm_source=twitchtv&utm_campaign=daopa&utm_medium=chatbox

 This is what the report will look like if they check steam analytics section on there dashboard.

So basically add in the following to the end of the URL and change what you want in the highlighted bold sections.

?utm_source=twitchtv&utm_campaign=daopa&utm_medium=chatbox

Or just 

?utm_source=twitchtv-daopa

For more information on UTM check out the following page on steam:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/utm_analytics

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

How to fix a jumbled up OBS Screen?

This is a quick tip on how to unscramble the OBS window when your monitor loses power or resolution changes occur.

Here is how OBS screen jumbles up when my monitor is shutoff or lost power.

obs window error

When playing certain games or even having a screensaver with power saving mode on, the obs window can start to mess up as shown in the above screenshot.  In order to fix it and get it back to normal, go to the Obs program, make sure its in focus and then press F11 which will put it into full screen.  Press F11 again to bring it back to a window.

This should fix the screen ui issue with OBS.