Changing Steam account for GeForce Now

ZiggyGG

ZiggyGG
Hello there!
Recently I'm playing Elite Dangerous via GeForce Now when I'm not at home.
GeForce Now can only access your Steam account and not the Frontier account.
I have 4 accounts in total (Steam, Epic Games and two Frontier accounts).
The problem I have is that my Steam account is not the main account I'm playing on right now and every time I'm opening GeForce Now app and starting Elite Dangerous it is by default launching my Steam account, so I'm forced to relogin to my desired account, confirm the security code etc.
Also after my 8 minutes AFK on GeForce Now the game is automatically closed and I'm logged out from the game and when I'm back I need to go through the entire process again.
That is annoying as F!
My question is mainly to FDevs staff, but if any of you knows the answer I would also appreciate it.

HOW CAN I CHANGE OR SYNCHRONISE MY OTHER ACCOUNT SO IT CAN BE THE DEFAULT STEAM ACCOUNT?

Thanks for any answers! 07!
 

ajg007

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I was thinking , On Geforce now, where you see the elite launcher and have to click play ( i have to do this on Geforce now on an android box) You could log out in the options tab at top, then log back in with your frontier account log in? - specifically the commander you want to play as. That should connect you to the commander you want.

As an example. A friend wants to play his account on my pc. I would logout from my account, using the instructions above, and he would log in using his account. He would then be using his account and not mine.

I've re read your issue. Sorry. I think what you need to try is open steam on your computer (not GFN) open the elite to the launcher only. Then in options at top - logout of elite and log in with the commanders account details you want to play on geforce now. I'd then logout of steam and back in, just to force the update?. On GFN, load in as normal and see what happens. You should be playing Elite on the account you wanting to play on.....

From what i understand, GFN is using a cloud based version of steam. If you want to make any permanent changes to how GFN logs in to elite, you have to make changes to the PC version of steam first.
 
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goemon

goemon
i actually had a similar problem.
i had bought horizons for one of my frontier elite accounts, but wanted to use ge force now and steam with my main account, as i had purchased odysse via steam.
i opened a support ticket with frontier support and asked to unlink my steam account from the associated frontier account, so i could relink it with my main. support was stellar as usual and i could relink my account in under 24 hours.

note - problems may arise, if you have purchased things via steam for the frontier account you want to unlink from.
 

ZiggyGG

ZiggyGG
ajg007 said:
I was thinking , On Geforce now, where you see the elite launcher and have to click play ( i have to do this on Geforce now on an android box) You could log out in the options tab at top, then log back in with your frontier account log in? - specifically the commander you want to play as. That should connect you to the commander you want.

As an example. A friend wants to play his account on my pc. I would logout from my account, using the instructions above, and he would log in using his account. He would then be using his account and not mine.

I've re read your issue. Sorry. I think what you need to try is open steam on your computer (not GFN) open the elite to the launcher only. Then in options at top - logout of elite and log in with the commanders account details you want to play on geforce now. I'd then logout of steam and back in, just to force the update?. On GFN, load in as normal and see what happens. You should be playing Elite on the account you wanting to play on.....

From what i understand, GFN is using a cloud based version of steam. If you want to make any permanent changes to how GFN logs in to elite, you have to make changes to the PC version of steam first.
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This way doesn't work.
 

ZiggyGG

ZiggyGG
goemon said:
i actually had a similar problem.
i had bought horizons for one of my frontier elite accounts, but wanted to use ge force now and steam with my main account, as i had purchased odysse via steam.
i opened a support ticket with frontier support and asked to unlink my steam account from the associated frontier account, so i could relink it with my main. support was stellar as usual and i could relink my account in under 24 hours.

note - problems may arise, if you have purchased things via steam for the frontier account you want to unlink from.
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I'll try this way. I hope it works.
 

ZiggyGG

ZiggyGG
ajg007 said:
sorry buddy, worth a try.

Just out of curiosity, are you changing account in the hopes you can play the alpha via GFN?
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Nope. I have Odyssey Deluxe with alpha access on all my accounts except the Epic one. I just want to play at work... XD
 
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