Elite Dangerous - game not running from launcher

I have installed Elite Dangerous and the game launcher runs from HG. When I click on launch game it opens a new window that runs for 20-30 seconds before closing and returning to the game launcher.

System Info:
Heroic Version: 2.6.2 Trafalgar Law
Legendary Version: 0.20.32 Dark Energy (hotfix #6)
GOGdl Version: 0.6

Electron Version: 22.2.0
Chrome Version: 108.0.5359.215
NodeJS Version: 16.17.1

OS: Freedesktop SDK KERNEL: 6.2.6-201.fsync.fc37.x86_64 ARCH: x64
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics @3.42 GOVERNOR: schedutil
RAM: Total: 30.74 GiB Available: 23.53 GiB
GRAPHICS: GPU0: Cezanne VRAM: 512MB
PROTOCOL: wayland

Game Settings: {
"autoInstallDxvk": true,
"autoInstallVkd3d": true,
"preferSystemLibs": false,
"nvidiaPrime": false,
"enviromentOptions": [],
"wrapperOptions": [],
"showFps": false,
"useGameMode": false,
"useSteamRuntime": false,
"language": "",
"wineVersion": {
"bin": "/home/codedsteve/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/proton",
"name": "Proton - Proton - Experimental",
"type": "proton"
},
"winePrefix": "/home/codedsteve/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/Elite Dangerous",
"wineCrossoverBottle": ""
}

Game launched at: Tue Mar 28 2023 16:20:50 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)

Legendary's config from config.ini (before Heroic's settings):
{
"game_parameters": [
"/Epic"
],
"game_executable": "EDLaunch.exe",
"game_directory": "/home/codedsteve/Games/Heroic/EliteDangerous",
"launch_command": [
"wine"
],
"working_directory": "/home/codedsteve/Games/Heroic/EliteDangerous",
"user_parameters": [],
"environment": {},
"pre_launch_command": "",
"pre_launch_wait": false
}

Launch Command: STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH=/home/codedsteve/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/.steam/steam STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/codedsteve/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/Elite Dangerous" PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID=0 SteamAppId=0 SteamGameId=heroic-EliteDangerous PROTON_LOG_DIR=/home/codedsteve/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/legendary launch 9c203b6ed35846e8a4a9ff1e314f6593 --language en --no-wine --wrapper "'/home/codedsteve/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/proton' run"

Game Log:
[cli] INFO: Logging in...
[Core] INFO: Trying to re-use existing login session...
[cli] INFO: Checking for updates...
[Core] INFO: Getting authentication token...
[cli] INFO: Launching 9c203b6ed35846e8a4a9ff1e314f6593...
wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
[S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() did not locate a running instance of Steam.
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed
Automatic value: True
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