HGL
environmental-rose
How to set it to ONLY update when I want it, no background stuff incl gogdl?
I love Heroic, I use both Heroic and Lutris for gaming on Linux and for GOG.
But just recently Heroic has started to use multiple instances of Heroic, usually 8 sometimes more, the same tactic Steam used for their launcher which in the end had me deleting my account, one of the reasons being that their launcher just had so much unecesary stuff clogging ur resourcess.
There was not always this many instances running in HC!
Now recently also the gogdl is running. I get its needed to update fo ur gog account wich Im using. But I would like the OPTION to not have this running as soon as I start a GOG game, and ONLY update this WHEN I tell it to.
Why does it constantly run, there is no need for this?
I also notice Heroic itself keep upl/dl stuff, posibly fr the store, even when just playing a game hours later it still doing it.
Im paranoid, left steams launcher for these reasons and switched to Linux yrs ago for the same, for more control and less data being sent out, unless I want it to.
It doesnt matter if im on a gd pc or old pc, to have all these unecesary things running and updating all the time, I dont want it, I want that small bit for added performance and feeling of safety and privacy.
Heroic has also had my fans run faster than Lutris, I get it has store and connected stuff that Lutris doesnt which is great I love that and use it to update my GOG achviements etc.
But lately its becomming more and more like the steam launcher and Im using Lutris more than Heroic b/c of all this stuff running, that doesnt need to be running unles I set it to update?!?!?
I have tried all the various update options in settings, it doesnt seem to make a difference:(
Is there a way to play games connected to ur Heroic account without having the launcher running since its now taking so many resources and nonstop upl/dl like Steam does?
A setting I missed?
I LOVE Heroic, ty for this wonderful app for Linux gaming and for GOG, I appreciate ur work on it!
Pls add this option if not?
2 Replies
quickest-silver•2mo ago
what do you mean it's uploading downloading stuff? can you be more specific? like show logs
I wonder if you mean the GOG presence? I think this one can be disabled if you check the Disable playtime sync option in heroic's settings
wise-white•2mo ago
hum... I think there's a setting to toggle the game update: Settings->General->Automatically update games