steamwebhelper not responding
hello, is there any way to get steam running on heroic? this is the only launcher i've had this problem on, which is it saying steamwebhelper is not responding. any help is appreciated, thanks
17 Replies
flat-fuchsia•5w ago
you reaaaaally shouldnt be installing steam on heroic, there are other options for that like crossover or whisky
mute-gold•5w ago
if you really need windows steam on your mac for free, use whisky, unfortunetely development recently stopped for it BUT if you check out MiketheTech on youtube he shows you a way to fix this issue
like-goldOP•5w ago
the issue for me is that heroic is the best free option for running games i’ve found, but the game i’m trying to play needs steam open in the background to connect to the servers
and correct me if i’m wrong but it couldn’t communicate with mac steam/wine steam if the exe was launched with heroic
flat-fuchsia•5w ago
what game is this?
environmental-rose•5w ago
The thing is, heroic does not run steam or steam games.. what store did you get this game on?
like-goldOP•5w ago
i had downloaded the game from steam on wine and ran the exe in heroic
schedule 1 is one example
flat-fuchsia•5w ago
yeah nah heroic isn’t really the best thing to run steam in a wineprefix with
you’d be better off using whisky or crossover
like-goldOP•5w ago
yeah i tried crossover the other day and it worked flawlessly but im not sure i want to pay the $99 or whatever it is/reset the trial every 14 days
appreicate your help tho thanks a lot
environmental-rose•5w ago
you need to run the game from steam you cant run it in heroic as heroic doesnt have a backend for steam games
steam drm and other services are usually required for steam games
flat-fuchsia•5w ago
I mean you pay the 99 once and you keep the same thing “forever” (in theory)
I picked up my sub during Black Friday for some obscene price (like 20 bucks)
environmental-rose•5w ago
tbh crossover is one of the best ways to play windows games on mac
foreign-sapphire•5w ago
if you don't want to pay crossover and you are on an M chip, you can try the build from this PR https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/pull/4462/files that uses an older version of Steam that works with GPTK
note that it will ignore all updates so you won't get any fixes or new features of steam
same integration kinda works with wine-crossover but when I tested it kept getting stuck installing games so it was not useful
the official up-to-date steam client only works with the paid version of crossover
the outdated steam files that you can get with that in-development pull request only seem to work with GPTK (so if you are on intel mac, your only option will be paying for crossover)
to clarify, the build from that PR will install steam, then you'll have to open steam and install the games there, the games won't show up in heroic
xenial-black•5w ago
GitHub
GitHub - Kegworks-App/Kegworks: A user-friendly tool used to make w...
A user-friendly tool used to make wine wrapped ports of Windows software for macOS. - Kegworks-App/Kegworks
xenial-black•5w ago
they have a discord server with many install guides
flat-fuchsia•5w ago
kegworks is great because gcenx has done a ton for the mac gaming community
did you have msync turned on?
foreign-sapphire•5w ago
I don't remember now but I think I did
flat-fuchsia•5w ago
msync has been known to stop steam from installing games for genuinely no good reason LOL
most people are told to turn it off while installing and then turn it back on when running the game