I tried to launch a game from Heroic on the Deck for the first time in a month or so and it’s loading for a few seconds and then exiting.

  • Same from game mode or desktop
  • Same for different proton versions
  • Same for Epic, GOG, and Amazon games
  • Same after reinstalling a game
  • Other Steam and non-Steam games run fine

I’ve probably applied several updates since I last ran a game so no doubt a huge number of things have changed since the last good state. I can’t see anyone else reporting similar issues so I know it’s very optimistic from me, but does anyone have any suggestions? Even an idea of how to get some logs out would be useful!

  • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    1 day ago

    I had similar problem and the culprit was UMU launcher. Try deleting these files and see if it helps:

    rm -rfv ~/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu
rm -rfv ~/.local/share/umu

    You could also check the log files at Settings-> Logs in case there are any helpful error messages.