[HEROIC/GAME] OBS Game Capture doesn't capture HGL installed games

Hello everyone!

I have an issue using obs-vkcapture plugin with HGL installed games. It doesn't seems to capture in OBS when I launch a game. On the other side, everything works with Steam.

I tried to add

OBS_VKCAPTURE=1

OBS_VKCAPTURE=1

OBS_VKCAPTURE=1

OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 and

OBS_GLCAPTURE=1

OBS_GLCAPTURE=1

OBS_GLCAPTURE=1

OBS_GLCAPTURE=1 in the environment zone in the game options, and then tried

obs-gamecapture

obs-gamecapture

obs-gamecapture

obs-gamecapture as an argument, with no results. Everything with first Wine-GE, and then with GE-Proton with UMU activated. I also tried to add the game to Steam and then adding

env OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 %command%

env OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 %command%

env OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 %command%

env OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 %command%, still nothing. Finally, I added

OBS_VKCAPTURE=1

OBS_VKCAPTURE=1

OBS_VKCAPTURE=1

OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 to

/etc/environment

/etc/environment

/etc/environment

/etc/environment, works for Steam, not HGL.

I tried 3 different games. I'm using HGL and OBS with Flatpak.

Thanks for any help!

System:

CPU: 16x 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600KF
Memory: 33.49 GB (used: 5.55 GB)
GPUs:
  GPU 0:
    Name: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7800 XT]
    IDs: D=747e V=1002 SD=5327 SV=1849
    Driver: amdgpu
OS: Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck
We are running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:
  Heroic: 2.16.0 Scopper Gaban
  Legendary: 0.20.36 Urban Flight (Heroic)
  gogdl: 1.1.2
  comet: comet 0.2.0
  Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli

CPU: 16x 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600KF
Memory: 33.49 GB (used: 5.55 GB)
GPUs:
  GPU 0:
    Name: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7800 XT]
    IDs: D=747e V=1002 SD=5327 SV=1849
    Driver: amdgpu
OS: Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck
We are running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:
  Heroic: 2.16.0 Scopper Gaban
  Legendary: 0.20.36 Urban Flight (Heroic)
  gogdl: 1.1.2
  comet: comet 0.2.0
  Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli

CPU: 16x 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600KF
Memory: 33.49 GB (used: 5.55 GB)
GPUs:
  GPU 0:
    Name: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7800 XT]
    IDs: D=747e V=1002 SD=5327 SV=1849
    Driver: amdgpu
OS: Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck
We are running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:
  Heroic: 2.16.0 Scopper Gaban
  Legendary: 0.20.36 Urban Flight (Heroic)
  gogdl: 1.1.2
  comet: comet 0.2.0
  Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli

CPU: 16x 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600KF
Memory: 33.49 GB (used: 5.55 GB)
GPUs:
  GPU 0:
    Name: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7800 XT]
    IDs: D=747e V=1002 SD=5327 SV=1849
    Driver: amdgpu
OS: Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck
We are running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:
  Heroic: 2.16.0 Scopper Gaban
  Legendary: 0.20.36 Urban Flight (Heroic)
  gogdl: 1.1.2
  comet: comet 0.2.0
  Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli

Logs:

HGL: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/f02ebdd2/
CIV6 (example game): https://paste.debian.net/hidden/93efadc6/

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 10:47 PM

UPDATE: just remembered that Proton doesn't have good logs, but just saw that with UMU we have a verbose logs option now! Here are the new one for CIV6: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/0d795439/

then-purple•3/6/25, 11:01 PM

you are using flatpak

then-purple•3/6/25, 11:01 PM

do you have flatpak obs gamecapture vulkan layer installed?

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 11:10 PM

Yep I installed everything proposed on the Github page. Here are the installed OBS related packages:

OBS Studio    com.obsproject.Studio    31.0.1    stable    flathub    system

OBS VkCapture    com.obsproject.Studio.Plugin.OBSVkCapture    1.5.0    stable    flathub    system

OBS VkCapture tools    org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.OBSVkCapture    1.5.1    24.08    flathub    system

OBS Studio    com.obsproject.Studio    31.0.1    stable    flathub    system

OBS VkCapture    com.obsproject.Studio.Plugin.OBSVkCapture    1.5.0    stable    flathub    system

OBS VkCapture tools    org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.OBSVkCapture    1.5.1    24.08    flathub    system

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 11:12 PM

And I also built and install the plugin to capture outside games, because Steam is non-flatpak.

then-purple•3/6/25, 11:13 PM

heroic uses 23.08 as platform/runtime

then-purple•3/6/25, 11:13 PM

you need to install VulkanLayer.OBSVkCapture for that runtime

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 11:13 PM

Okay, will try that!

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 11:19 PM

It was that, I installed the 23.08 version and after a reboot, OBS is now capturing HGL games. Thank you very much!

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 11:20 PM

It was so simple, I feel dumb

How can we know which Flatpak packages version to use with HGL?

then-purple•3/6/25, 11:23 PM

Don't feel bad, that is one of the downsides of flatpaks since you need to track which platform is being used by the flatpak

awake-maroon•3/6/25, 11:25 PM

flatpak list --columns=name,runtimeflatpak list --columns=name,runtime lists which runtime is used for each of the apps, there you can see which one heroic is using

awake-maroon•3/6/25, 11:26 PM

our idea is to update to runtime 24 soon (we did a few months ago but there was a bug and we reverted it back to 23)

Tthen-purple Don't feel bad, that is one of the downsides of flatpaks since you need to track...

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 11:26 PM

Haha thanks, yes it adds procedures

Aawake-maroon `flatpak list --columns=name,runtime` lists which runtime is used for each of th...

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 11:26 PM

Thank you, will definitely note that command

Aawake-maroon our idea is to update to runtime 24 soon (we did a few months ago but there was ...

ordinary-sapphireOP•3/6/25, 11:27 PM

I kept 24.08 installed, so nothing should break

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