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foreign-sapphire

Several games installed through Heroic and shortcuts in steam added via BoilR no longer work

These games have been installed on my deck for many months and now that I go to play them again they don't start up. They won't start up via Steam or Heroic. Here's two examples (2 log files) that I had been playing no more than 2 months ago..
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CommandMC
CommandMC3y ago
Looking through the Proton code here, this really doesn't seem related to Heroic at all It essentially has a list of files it should mark as read-only, but (at least) one of those files seems to be missing on your install Are you able to launch Steam games using Proton Experimental? If you aren't, you might want to try verifying your Proton Experimental installation (in Steam)
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphireOP3y ago
Looks like none of the games that had Proton experimental work at all... Is it related as well that I can't install Linux versions as well? For example Butcher was one of the games I had played a couple moths ago, upon seeing I couldn't launch it I went to install it and chose the linux version.. it fails every time. The windows version installs, says it can't find wine and asks if I want to use proton experimental. At which point I say yes and the fail loop with proton experimental begins again.
CommandMC
CommandMC3y ago
Looks like none of the games that had Proton experimental work at all
Well, that's to be expected. The thing that's failing here will fail regardless of what you tell Proton to do/run
Is it related as well that I can't install Linux versions as well
Rather unlikely. To help further there, I'd need a general Heroic log of after you've tried to install anything
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphireOP3y ago
It found 5 files bad and redownloaded... Hope this was the cause.. THANK YOU I'll continue checking with the linux install
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphireOP3y ago
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphireOP3y ago
It fails with the linux install..
CommandMC
CommandMC3y ago
(16:05:01) ERROR: [Gog]: stdout = false and res.abort = false in getInstallInfo (16:05:01) ERROR: [Gog]: install info is undefined in GOG install (16:05:01) ERROR: [DownloadManager]: Installation of 1689871374 failed with: (16:05:01) WARNING: [DownloadManager]: Installation of 1689871374 failed!
Right, I believe it'd be best for me to hand this off to @Linguin now
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphireOP3y ago
Thank you so much for your help!
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphireOP3y ago
Looks like it creates 2 files for the install.. sorry
fair-rose
fair-rose3y ago
I think we have a PR fixing this

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