Trying to game on NixOS

i'm trying to play games through heroic on my nix and i can't launch any game, the same didn't happen on arch and i'm so confused. I'm still very new to nix.

here is a proton log:
https://paste.gloriouseggroll.tv/?16f6c38b9cee1076#CDtTpCK7hzbkjyFLyBTcodTrbsWeP4x8F8igcnex5Ugd

and here is a heroic log:
https://paste.gloriouseggroll.tv/?494e4b8080052ab1#64HTaAUha8wQSLv4c1N85QpzauFkc4ExKFMxdcGSH4hm

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dry-scarlet•7/19/25, 7:40 PM

Check if your Steam games works

dry-scarlet•7/19/25, 7:40 PM

If not, then a setup issue

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 7:47 PM

Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found.

Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found.

That almost sounds like a game file is missing.

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 7:48 PM

The NixOS heroic package is unofficial, and has had some weird quirks I have yet to work out, but this looks like it might not be the issue here.

Mmoderate-tomato ```log Application could not be started, or no application associated with th...

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:49 PM

i'm trying reinstalling my games then

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:49 PM

but could it be my setup?

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:49 PM

i made sure to enable everything right :c

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:50 PM

i have mesa-git from chaotic nyx tho

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:56 PM

now that i noticed there is two heroic packages?

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:56 PM

what is the one i should be using?

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:56 PM

heroic and heroic-unwrapped

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:57 PM

yeah still not launching

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 7:57 PM

i'm loving nix but this is a huge issue for me

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:05 PM

you almost never want to use -unwrapped-unwrapped packages.

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:06 PM

Do any games run on your system?

Mmoderate-tomato Do any games run on your system?

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:13 PM

yess minecraft is running through prismlauncher

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:13 PM

i'm trying to run games on heroic with winewayland if that is useful

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:13 PM

i don't use xwayland

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:13 PM

do you think i need to enable something specific on my nix config?

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:14 PM

i will check if games work through lutris

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:17 PM

oh maybe i should install steam for its dependencies

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:18 PM

steam shouldn't matter for games under proton

Mmoderate-tomato steam shouldn't matter for games under proton

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:19 PM

yes i know but if i'm lacking dependencies for my games

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:19 PM

idk

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:19 PM

:ShiggySad:

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:20 PM

wine wayland is still a bit experimental, so maybe try without that while getting things working.

Eexclusive-coral yes i know but if i'm lacking dependencies for my games

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:21 PM

that's what I mean. any dependencies get installed in the proton (wine) prefix, and the base environment is in the pressure vessel container.

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:21 PM

at least as far as I understand it.

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:21 PM

It would be worth installing Steam to see if any Proton games run from there.

Mmoderate-tomato It would be worth installing Steam to see if any Proton games run from there.

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:46 PM

okay, it's running fine through lutris

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:46 PM

idk what is going on with heroic then

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:47 PM

what runs fine through lutris?

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 8:47 PM

the games

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 8:47 PM

you tried the same game as above?

Mmoderate-tomato you tried the same game as above?

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:10 PM

i was trying to test the same games but i couldn't get lutris to install them

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:11 PM

so i tried other

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:11 PM

but it shouldn't have any difference if those was working just fine on the same setup but on arch linux

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:12 PM

with the heroic from there

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 9:13 PM

So we know games can run at least. There might still be something about that particular game that isn't to do with heroic. e.g. maybe you need to specify a different executable.

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 9:13 PM

I can't help much beyond that since I don't have that game.

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:14 PM

it's not the game

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:14 PM

it's heroic

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:14 PM

i can run games on lutris

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:14 PM

but not on heroic

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:27 PM

oh goddamit

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:27 PM

it's actually the games from epic

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:27 PM

what the hell

exclusive-coralOP•7/19/25, 9:28 PM

that don't makes any sense in my head

moderate-tomato•7/19/25, 9:32 PM

GitHub

Silently exits when run via legendary [NixOS] · Issue #514 · Open...

I am on NixOS unstable, using umu-launcher installed through the flake in this repo (currently rev ea5a14c9201e8ea15dd8d28360d2f58d9cacb7b0). umu-run invoked by legendary (specifically the Heroic f...

Trying to game on NixOS

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