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By ʜᴜɴɢʀʏ ɢʜᴏꜱᴛ
In this guide, I'll present you how to trigger the overlay for the game as it doesn't natively support it. Keep in mind this workaround is pretty limited: you're only granted the ability to take screenshots and see your FPS, you can't access the UI and other features like you normally would.
   
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Category: Modding or Configuration, Secrets
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In order to do so, we're gonna force the overlay exe to run on top of the game.

  • First, launch the game and alt-tab to get out.

  • Open the run command by pressing Win + R (the Windows logo key + R).

  • Now depending where your Steam is installed, paste the path leading to the GameOverlayUI.exe in followed by -pid **** -manuallyclearframes 0
    here's an example if you have the default path when installed on the C drive:
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\GameOverlayUI.exe" -pid **** -manuallyclearframes 0

    You'll notice there are **** after the process identifier (pid), well the reason is simple: it refers to an active process explaining why it changes every time you boot up the game, therefore you'll have to edit this number anytime you'll play.

  • To find the current pid, open the task manager by either pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete then choose task manager or directly with Ctrl + Shift + Esc. Once open, go to the Details tab and scroll down until you find PrinceOfPersia_Launcher.EXE, next to it will be a random number and that is your session pid. You can now replace the **** with this number and hit enter.

  • Go back into the game and try to take a screenshot, if you hear the famous jingle it's on! If not, wait some more seconds, I usually know it instantly because I have the FPS counter on meaning the limited overlay is running.
    You probably won't see the pop-up saying a shot was taken but as long as you hear the sound it saved one.

Note: this trick also works for the Sands trilogy.
So there you have it, have fun folks!