It 's possible to accidentally run two different games at the same time
I didn't how to title this. What happened is I launched Ancient Enemy for the first time and it said something about updating I think it was Winecfg.
Then the message went away and I was looking at Heroic's page for the game again. On the game's page it said "play now" so it appeared that the game had silently crashed.
There was another game I was going to test (Sable) so I went straight to launch that game. Right after I tried to launch it Ancient Enemy popped up instead. I guess it just took Ancient Enemy a really long time to launch, and it hadn't silently crashed after all.
But that resulted in two games trying to run at the same time and Sable crashing.
When I stopped playing Ancient Enemy I was still on the game page for Sable. I hit play to see if Sable would launch. Surprisingly Sable crashed again, and after getting rid of the error message Ancient Enemy was running again. Hitting play on Sable's game page had launched both games at once.
I don't have a log because I was playing in Steam Deck's game mode and had to switch to desktop mode (which closes Heroic, so there wouldn't be a log any more) in order to report. But I do think I know the steps that caused it.
1. Run a game that's slow to launch (or maybe run a game for the first time, which delays the launch process if it has to do some setup first). I my case that was Ancient Enemy.
2. Before that game has launched (I believe that's the essential part) go to another game that's already installed and hit play--I was on Sable's game page when I hit play. I don't know if that makes a difference.
3. Telling Heroic to run a second game before the first one has launched seems to make Heroic confused, where it thinks "play now" is supposed to launch both games at the same time.
I'm on flatpak Heroic 2.5.2 on Steam Deck
Then the message went away and I was looking at Heroic's page for the game again. On the game's page it said "play now" so it appeared that the game had silently crashed.
There was another game I was going to test (Sable) so I went straight to launch that game. Right after I tried to launch it Ancient Enemy popped up instead. I guess it just took Ancient Enemy a really long time to launch, and it hadn't silently crashed after all.
But that resulted in two games trying to run at the same time and Sable crashing.
When I stopped playing Ancient Enemy I was still on the game page for Sable. I hit play to see if Sable would launch. Surprisingly Sable crashed again, and after getting rid of the error message Ancient Enemy was running again. Hitting play on Sable's game page had launched both games at once.
I don't have a log because I was playing in Steam Deck's game mode and had to switch to desktop mode (which closes Heroic, so there wouldn't be a log any more) in order to report. But I do think I know the steps that caused it.
1. Run a game that's slow to launch (or maybe run a game for the first time, which delays the launch process if it has to do some setup first). I my case that was Ancient Enemy.
2. Before that game has launched (I believe that's the essential part) go to another game that's already installed and hit play--I was on Sable's game page when I hit play. I don't know if that makes a difference.
3. Telling Heroic to run a second game before the first one has launched seems to make Heroic confused, where it thinks "play now" is supposed to launch both games at the same time.
I'm on flatpak Heroic 2.5.2 on Steam Deck
