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All games fail with Bad EXE format - Heroic Games Launcher
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8mo ago
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living-lavender
All games fail with Bad EXE format
All the games that I have tried running
(Fallout
: New Vegas
, Rocket League
, Brotato
) fail to start
, and all fail with ShellExecuteEx failed
: Bad EXE format for
[PATH
_TO
_GAME
]
.
Here is the full log with verobse logging on for Fallout
: New Vegas
5daeb974a22a435988892319b3a4f476-lastPlay.log
2.84KB
Solution
Ok that flatpak just works
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