diff --git a/ULWGL b/ULWGL
index 074d78d..91d95b2 100755
--- a/ULWGL
+++ b/ULWGL
@@ -177,18 +177,7 @@ if [ -n "$log_to_file" ]; then
     if [ -z "${STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID-}" ] && [ -z "${SteamAppId-}" ]; then
         app="non-steam-game"
     else
-        # for non-steam games ULWGL passes the ULWGL_ID as STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID and SteamAppId
-        # which means it won't be null and will fail the above check, making this script think
-        # it's a steam game. We need to perform a numerical check here
-        # to validate a non-numeric ID is set as a non-steam game.
-        numcheck='^[0-9]+$'
-        # if is numeric, assign as steam app id.
-        if [[ $(cat ${STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID-}) =~ $numcheck ]] || [[ $(cat ${SteamAppId-}) =~ $numcheck ]]; then
-            app="app${STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID-${SteamAppId}}"
-        else
-        # if not numeric, assign as non-steam game.
-            app="non-steam-game"
-        fi
+        app="app${STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID-${SteamAppId}}"
     fi
 
     log_filename="slr-${app}-t$(date +'%Y%m%dT%H%M%S').log"
diff --git a/gamelauncher.sh b/gamelauncher.sh
index 45b0329..59e4364 100755
--- a/gamelauncher.sh
+++ b/gamelauncher.sh
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ if [[ $WINEPREFIX ]]; then
 fi
 export PROTONPATH="$PROTONPATH"
 export ULWGL_ID="$GAMEID"
-export STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID="$GAMEID"
+export STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID="0"
 numcheck='^[0-9]+$'
-if [[ $(cat $ULWGL_ID | cut -d "-" -f 2) =~ $numcheck ]]; then
-  export STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID=$(cat $ULWGL_ID | cut -d "-" -f 2)
+if [[ $(echo $ULWGL_ID | cut -d "-" -f 2) =~ $numcheck ]]; then
+  export STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID=$(echo $ULWGL_ID | cut -d "-" -f 2)
 fi
 export SteamAppId="$STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID"
 export SteamGameId="$STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID"