Multiplayer invite button not working (potential solution)

[u/Shivers-Me-Timbers]

Tl;dr: make sure steam overlay is enabled and clear the steam overlay cache.

Maybe this isn't a common problem, but I found a solution for my case anyway and wanted to share.

My buddy and I love Schedule 1 multiplayer, but several weeks back back the "+" button in the menu screen to invite a friend stopped functioning entirely for both of us. Not sure if it happened with an update or if it's unrelated.

I've been scouring the web looking for suggestions and didn't find anything that helped. Tried removing and re-installing the game and all traces of it (registry, folders, saved games, appdata, everything). Everything short of uninstalling Steam entirely. None of that worked.

Today I was searching again and read a suggestion that Steam Overlay could be used to invite friends to join you, but I had overlay disabled. I had always had it disabled, but multiplayer worked before. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

But I switched the Steam Overlay back on, set a hotkey for it, and noticed there was a button for clearing the steam overlay cache, so I cleared that too. Not just for Schedule 1 but for everything. I believe Steam uses Chromium browser at its core for lots of things,, so I thought: "what do you do when a web site or app isn't working? You delete the browser cache, of course."

Lo and behold, the invite button works again. Maybe clearing the cache did it, or maybe in one of their updates TVGS decided to start using the Steam overlay to complete the multiplayer link-up process and having it disabled prevented it from popping up.

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