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Ariel Juodziukynas edited this page Jun 6, 2026 · 26 revisions

List with several Legendary and Wine Workarounds:

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Save Game paths

For Cloud Sync to work as expected, where a game saves and syncs is very important to get right. Ensure that Heroic's save location is actually where the game saves are! You can check for the correct folder on the website called PCGamingWiki. (Windows games, for example, are likely saving directly inside the WINEPREFIX root, for obvious reasons)

Heroic-specific

Humankind

If your game is crashing on launch, you need to enable the EOS overlay.

SUPERHOT

The SUPERHOT launcher does not work with Heroic, since it also uses some Electron components. Luckily, bypassing it is easy:

  1. Open up the game-specific settings for SUPERHOT.
  2. At the "Select an alternative EXE to run" option, type in "SH.exe".

Redout: Enhanced Edition

This game runs good by using Wine Staging, it just needs a few extra steps:

  1. Install VcRedist 2015-2018 (using winetricks or downloading from Microsoft Website) on the Wine Prefix.
  2. Go to the game settings and activate DXVK and VKD3D.
  3. If the game complains about DX12 not being supported, go to the game Settings > Other and add -dx11 to the Game Arguments.
  4. The game should open just fine now.

HITMAN 3

The game requires to be run on any "FShack" build of Wine or Proton, otherwise it will crash. Once installed, the game will try and download a faulty update, and thus, needs updates disabled.

  1. Open up the game-specific settings for HITMAN 3.
  2. Under "Other", go to "Game Arguments", and add DXVK_CUSTOM_VENDOR_ID=10de %command% --skip-version-check to the text field.

Bioshock Collection

For the game to run we need to skip the launcher and use Wine-GE and DXVK on the prefix. This is valid for all 3 games of the collection.

  1. To skip the launcher, go to the game settings.
  2. Then go to Other Settings.
  3. On Select an Alternative EXE to Run select {GameFolder}/Binaries/Win32/ShippingPC-XGame.exe.
  4. On Wine settings select the latest WINE-GE (tested on WINE-GE-Proton7-15). If it's not available, you can download it using the Wine Manager in Heroic.
  5. Activate DXVK.
  6. Disable ESYNC and FSYNC to avoid texture issues.
  7. Now the game should open just fine.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete (from GOG)

There seems to be a problem with the game's xdd.dll file in the installation folder, it seems to be incompatible with Wine's ddraw. That makes the game fail to open.

There are 2 solutions for the problem

Option 1: Replace xdd.dll

  • Run the game once so the prefix is created
  • Look for the ddraw.dll inside the prefix's drive_c/windows/syswow64/ folder
  • Copy that file in the game's install directory as xdd.dll, replacing the file that's in there

Option 2: Modify Heroes3.exe

  • Run this command to modify the content of the Heroes3.exe executable to use ddraw.dll instead of xdd.dll:
  • sed --in-place 's/xdd\.dll../ddraw.dll/' Heroes3.exe

Based on this GOG forum post.

Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat

The game uses the ROBOCOPY command during setup but this is not implemented by Wine, so some files must be copied manually for this game to work.

  1. Run the game once so the prefix is created, it will fail to open
  2. Look for the gogdlConfig/heroic_gogdl/gog-support/1433929853/1433929853 folder inside Heroic's config folder (check https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Removing-Uninstalling-Heroic-Games-Launcher to find the correct path for your system)
  3. Copy the content of the sys32 folder in the drive_c/windows/system32 and drive_c/windows/syswow64 folders inside the game's prefix
  4. Now the game should run

Hogwarts Legacy on MacOS

If you are on an Intel mac, your only option to get the game working is the commercial version of Crossover. If you are on an Apple Silicon (M chip), you can use the free Game Porting Toolkit 3.

Error: Visual C++ Runtime missing

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Heroic tries to autoinstall the vcrun2022 package with Winetricks, but if you don't have the correct setup for it, it will fail. Make sure this is configured properly before running the game https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Using-Heroic-on-a-Mac-computer#winetricks-setup

If you are still having issues with Visual C++ runtime, read https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Installing-Visual-C---Runtime

AMD driver warning

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This can be ignored, it's not a real problem. Apple's GPU is incorrectly detected as problematic but it works just fine.

Frozen in AMD driver warning after closing the game

When using the Game Porting Toolkit 3, you have to disable the MSync and ESync options in Heroic's settings for the game to open a second time.

"Failed to initialize Directx 12. Graphics drivers may require an update, or graphics adapter may not be supported" error

When using Crossover, if you get this warning, try creating a Windows 10 bottle instead of a Windows 11 bottle.

Error: "Failed to open file descriptor ....Phoenix.uproject"

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This seems to only happen when the game is installed in an external driver. Currently, the only workaround I know to avoid this is to install the game in an internal drive.

Since you are here, it means you already installed the game, so you can move it to another drive using the Move option in the 3-dots menu.

EA App games

For MacOS games, check https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/EA-Games-on-Mac For Linux games, check https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/How-to-install-EA-Games-on-Linux

Cassette Beasts

Fix invisible / partially invisible elements on Mac

Based on https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/5637

  1. Open the install directory of the game (3-dots menu > Browse Files)
  2. Create a plain text file named override.cfg next to the CassetteBeasts.exe file with the following content:
[rendering]
quality/depth_prepass/disable_for_vendors=""
quality/depth_prepass/enable=true

Note that the file MUST be a plain text file, it should NOT be a rich format like RTF, DOC, etc. If you are not sure how to do that, click here, then click "Download ZIP", and extract the override.cfg file to the correct place.

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