hi guys first time problem, firstly you guys are doing an amazing job , before epic games worked flawlessly on linux mint . now however when I had to reinstall linux mint , its stopped working.It installs and updates, but when you want to start the launcher it just says verifying and then closes ? whats happened
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Same thing here on Arch, Can install it ok but when starting it does an update says verifying and then closes.
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Make sure you donāt use staging version of wine.
Switch runner to stable or to ge-proton and it should work.
No it doesnāt! I had it running for over a year just fine until I reinstalled Arch today, It wonāt run on anything, wine-ge, proton-ge, lutris-ge or umu-proton. It installs ok when it goes to run it says āverifying updateā then just closes, Something is wrong somewhere.
EDIT: Ok it seems the installer lutris is getting is the problem. I just installed it with an old installer I had (Epicinstaller-15.17.1.msi) and it updates and runs fine again.
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I have the same. Fresh install of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and latest version of Lutris (0.5.19). Used all defaults.
Epic Game Store installs, but then when it opens, it goes into verifying or something, and then just quits.
Update: It seems that @slayerking is correct. I downloaded an old installer from here: Download Epic Games Launcher 15.17.1 for Windows - Filehippo.com
This seem to work! Hopefully this problem can be fixed in the near future, but for now, this workaround is nice to have.
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Does the āepic online servicesā install for you? Mine fails which it never used to do.
No, it does not, however it does not seem to be preventing me from manually clicking āinstall gameā. I have installed a few games now successfully.
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thx
Hi, Iām a newb with Bazzite and almost no Linux knowledge but still eager to learn.
Iām trying to install Epic but it crashes repeatedly with this error.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
I have no clue what to do, as I have moved from winblows to Bazzite. Everything has gone well with Lutris and all other launchers/games are great, except with the Epic launcher.
Can anyone assist?
I (Linux Mint Mate) had this error for the first time on 28.02. Even the complete reinstallation of the Epic Game Store in a new prefix did not bring any resounding success. It started again (the error of starting the update window and subsequent close was no longer present) but I then got a black window with a subsequent Unreal Engine Error (I should install some icon of the UE). But the UE is only for game developers and I will do the devil to install 40GB because of a missing icon here. You donāt need the UE as a 100% gamer.
After I tried different Wine-Starter, the Epic Launcher suddenly started. Only the online service would not update/install. I was able to solve this with the help of a German site (Redirecting).
For 3 weeks now I had an Epic Launcher, which had the UE error from time to time, but everything worked on the second start. Yesterday the Epic Launcher wanted to update itself via the online service. I did that and it didnāt work again. Tried again with different Wine-Starter and all of a sudden I only got the black start window with the subsequent UE error.
Maybe there is something wrong with the new Linux Mint 21.1. In any case, I am out of the Epic Launcher (and I have been able to use it for > 5 years without any errors). I have also been using the heroic launcher for the last 5 years. I will stick with that for now.
switch to another runner in options, donāt use wine-ge runner.
you can also install Wine-HQ 10 which works in my case.
Nope, even with the 10 HQ version it gets stuck. But suddenly it starts up with GE-Proton9-25. Thatās totally crazy. When it was still running with wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 it didnāt start with any Proton version. Now itās the other way around.
The error still remains that you can no longer update the Epic Store using the online service. The store wants to update to 18.1.2 in the settings, you click on āRestart and updateā and nothing happens. As I said, Iām staying on āheroicā for now.
try Proton experimental