File Explorer opening on launch, game not opening

[kbdevs]

Describe the bug

Hey everyone, I'm trying to launch a game through heroic and its just launching a file explorer of my prefix folder, any ideas what could I do to fix this?

(Some games have worked on windows version steam)

Add logs

(18:38:37) INFO:    [Backend]:          Adding shortcuts for PC Building Simulator

(18:38:37) INFO:    [DownloadManager]:  Finished Installation of ab277c0995e945d2b2c50c46883627f1

(18:38:37) INFO:    [DownloadManager]:  ab277c0995e945d2b2c50c46883627f1 added to download manager finished.

(18:38:37) INFO:    [DownloadManager]:  ab277c0995e945d2b2c50c46883627f1 removed from download manager.

(18:38:37) INFO:    [Frontend]:         Refreshing legendary Library

(18:38:37) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Refreshing library...

(18:38:37) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Refreshing Epic Games...

(18:38:37) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Game list updated, got 7 games & DLCs

(18:38:37) INFO:    [Backend]:          Stopping Power Saver Blocker

(18:38:37) DEBUG:   [Legendary]:        Using cached install info

(18:38:38) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Checking if EOS Overlay is enabled: /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary eos-overlay info

(18:38:38) DEBUG:   [Legendary]:        Using cached install info

(18:38:38) DEBUG:   [Legendary]:        Using cached install info

(18:38:38) DEBUG:   [Legendary]:        Using cached install info

(18:38:38) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Running command: /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary list --third-party

(18:39:26) INFO:    [Backend]:          Launching PC Building Simulator (ab277c0995e945d2b2c50c46883627f1)

(18:39:26) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Running command: /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary --version

(18:39:26) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking if wine version exists: GPTK Wine (DX11/DX12 Only) - wine-7.7

(18:39:26) DEBUG:   [Legendary]:        Using cached install info

(18:39:26) INFO:    [Backend]:          Stopping Power Saver Blocker

(18:39:26) DEBUG:   [Legendary]:        Using cached install info

(18:39:26) DEBUG:   [Legendary]:        Using cached install info

(18:39:26) DEBUG:   [Legendary]:        Using cached install info

(18:39:26) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking if wine version exists: GPTK Wine (DX11/DX12 Only) - wine-7.7

(18:39:26) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking if wine version exists: GPTK Wine (DX11/DX12 Only) - wine-7.7

(18:39:26) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking if wine version exists: GPTK Wine (DX11/DX12 Only) - wine-7.7

(18:39:26) DEBUG:   [Backend]:          Running Wine command: wineboot --init

**(18:39:31) WARNING: [Backend]:          Could not determine System Info**

(18:39:34) INFO:    [Gog]:              Running command: /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/gogdl --auth-config-path "/Users/kb/Library/Application Support/heroic/gog_store/auth.json" --version

(18:39:36) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Running command: /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary launch ab277c0995e945d2b2c50c46883627f1 --json --offline

(18:39:50) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Launching PC Building Simulator: LD_PRELOAD= WINEESYNC=1 /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary launch ab277c0995e945d2b2c50c46883627f1 --language en --wrapper "/usr/local/Cellar/game-porting-toolkit/1.0/bin/wine64 /Users/kb/my-game-prefix" --no-wine

(18:40:29) INFO:    [Backend]:          Stopping Display Power Saver Blocker

(18:40:29) INFO:    [Frontend]:         Refreshing legendary Library

(18:40:29) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Refreshing library...

(18:40:29) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Refreshing Epic Games...

(18:40:29) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Game list updated, got 7 games & DLCs

(18:40:29) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Running command: /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary list --third-party

Steps to reproduce

1. Hit play on the game
2. Wait
3. Show File Explorer
4. Nothing Launches

Expected behavior

The game should launch

Screenshots

No response

Heroic Version

main branch from GitHub

System Information

• OS [e. g. "Ubuntu"]: MacOS 14.0 Sonoma

Additional information

Trying to use Game porting toolkit

[pakkographic]

same issue here, Game Porting Toolkit doesn't work properly, I tried launching the game through the file explorer, and it launches the game but crashes seconds after. (rocket league), while it works properly with Crossover Wine.

[vapidinfinity]

can confirm this is a problem that happens to me as well, here's the command that gets run by heroic:

LD_PRELOAD= /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary launch 48619f5656da446abccb727b78cda644 --language en --wrapper "/usr/local/Cellar/game-porting-toolkit/1.0.2/bin/wine64 /Users/blackxfiied/Library/Containers/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Bottles/6FAC3D2F-340D-453A-95AF-9D5F5B85D66F" --no-wine

dont mention whisky i've tried not using whisky

[vapidinfinity]

Found the problem, it's becuase of the --wrapper argument. instead of referencing the "gameportingtoolkit" script in /usr/local/bin, heroic references gameportingtoolkit's wine64 (wine 7.7)

here's what heroic tries to execute according to logs (game launched is pikuniku.)
LD_PRELOAD= /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary launch 41869934302e4b8cafac2d3c0e7c293d --language en --wrapper "/usr/local/Cellar/game-porting-toolkit/1.0.2/bin/wine64 /Users/blackxfiied/my-game-prefix" --no-wine

this wont work becuase its trying to reference a folder to wine, which will just open the folder in file explorer

what does work is
LD_PRELOAD= /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/darwin/legendary launch 48619f5656da446abccb727b78cda644 --language en --wrapper "/usr/local/bin/gameportingtoolkit /Users/blackxfiied/my-game-prefix" --no-wine

becuase the game poprting toolkit script executes it instead of feeding it directly to wine

[arielj]

can anyone in this thread confirm if this got fixed in 2.9.1?

[arielj]

Closing this since I understand #2880 fixes this issue