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Minimize when Playing Not working
The option when playing a game closing the launcher does not work properly on some games it does and on some it does not.
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This is unfortunately caused by how Windows works
To launch games, Heroic runs a command-line too called Legendary, which then launches the actual game (which might be just a launcher that then launches the game). To know when a game is finished, Heroic just waits for the process to finish
On macOS and Linux, waiting means "wait for this process and all child processes" (so Legendary, any launcher afterwards, and the game). On Windows however, this only waits for Legendary. So as far as Heroic is concerned, the game has just immediately exited. This is why playtime tracking and minimizing won't work
We're aware that Steam has some way of dealing with this (even on Windows), but no-one has ever looked into it further as far as I know