NSIS Integration with Windows Games Explorer

Question

I'm trying to get the NSIS installer for my game to register the game with the Games Explorer in Vista/Win7. In all other respects, my installer is working fine - but I've had a difficult time identifying the 'right' way to integrate with the Games explorer. In my searching, I've found the following resources:

• Game Explorer with Helper
• Games Plug-in
• Game Explorer

I've got the game-side tasks complete (my .EXE has embedded GDF resources), but the installer work is frustrating me. It seems that by now there should be a fairly well-honed approach to this, but none of these feel like 'it.' Has anybody had experience with this?

Answer 1

Have you considered using Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset instead of NSIS? Starting from version 3 it have pretty handy Gaming Extension. (schema)