Heroic not detecting GoG games as installed
OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit
Just installed Heroic for the first time.
In GoG I own 5 games, 2 of which are installed.
Heroic sees the games I own in GoG, but thinks all of them are not installed, so it only offers the "install" option, I can't run the two installed games (Cyberpunk 2077, and Populous the Beginning) from within Heroic.
Conversely, I have 5 games in the Epic Launcher with 1 installed (GTA 5), and here Heroic does recognise the game that is installed.
I have both Steam and GoG set up to install games in a non-default location. My memory is hazy but I think for the Epic Store you can't set a default location for future game installs, and have to set the location each time you download a new game.
Is the non-default location the reason Heroic can't find the installed GoG games, and if so is there a way to make it look in a new non-default location?
3 Replies
wise-white•5mo ago
I don't think heroic automatically picks games from GOG, you'll have to click the
install button and then click Import Game and look for the installation folder of each game
with epic that's done by the legendary backend we use, it has a feature to stay in sync with epicquickest-silverOP•5mo ago
Ah ok. I avoided the "install" option because I didn't want to immediately kick off a new muliti-GB and multi-hour download of a game I already have. I didn't realise the import feature would be under the install menu.
Thanks for the help.
BTW, is there a feature request open for a "game install folder watcher" feature? Like the way my music player (MediaMonkey) scans for new tracks on startup.
wise-white•5mo ago
yes, there is one in github https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/3377
GitHub
Borrow the Library feature from Steam · Issue #3377 · Heroic-Games-...
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