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rare-sapphire
Bazzite: Cannot launch Heroic (App Image) through Steam
This issue started up over the weekend after updating steam. I have my system set up so that I have heroic launcher as a separate app I can launch on steam. After updating steam I hit play on heroic and it just doesn’t launch. It holds on the play button forever like it is launching/is launched but never does. No system icon in the tray either nor anything on the system monitor to show that it’s launched. When telling it to stop it takes upwards of a minute to actually stop. The odd thing is that I can launch heroic through the actual app image file just fine, and the shortcuts for my epic games on steam work as long as I have launched it through the actual file (heroic will not launch automatically when clicking the game now. Assuming it has to do with the whole “not launching through steam anymore” thing). I am under the assumption that this is an issue on how steam is trying to launch it if at all.
Things I have done so far:
- made sure steam was fully updated
- updated system
- updated Proton-GE (using Proton-GE latest)
- re-logged into all services
- redid adding as a non-steam game.
- tried with and without compatibility layers. Only one that makes progress and hangs w/o immediately quitting was without force compatibility on.
- Checked the app image and launching by clicking the actual file works fine.
If anyone has time and could be so kind please help ❤️. I’m still new to Linux so I’m not even sure how I would diagnose this if there is a way.
8 Replies
rare-sapphireOP•3w ago
Also apologies if this should be tagged under non-heroic. I wasn’t quite sure since it seems to be a weird interaction between steam and heroic
sunny-green•3w ago
Is there a reason you're using the appimage instead of the Flatpak package
rare-sapphireOP•3w ago
I found it easier to use in my case for things like lossless scaling. I know there is a way to do it with the flat pack but I had trouble getting it to work while the app image I just had to input the regular command through the steam shortcut (not the launcher itself just whatever game I wanna have it on)
sunny-green•3w ago
Alright, please send over what is in the Steam launch options for the appimage
rare-sapphireOP•3w ago
Apologies for taking so long @Ally The Protogen and thank you for taking a look 🙂 . Was at work!
I don't have anything as a launch option (never bothered to put art on the app icon lol)
sunny-green•3w ago
Alright, just tested it out a bit myself. Really weird that I'm experiencing the same issue when trying to launch the image from steam.
The fix I found though was to add
--no-sandbox to those launch optionsrare-sapphireOP•3w ago
Horray! It works like normal again! Thank you so much Ally :)!
Just marked the issue as solved 🙂 . Weird that it works but happy it does!
sunny-green•3w ago
That's pretty much the motto of linux, lol. Have fun