Heroic "cannot get game info" for Amazon Games despite account being signed into. about heroicgameslauncher HOT 16 CLOSED

you have to use a custom nile binary until the next heroic release

you can get it from https://nightly.link/imLinguin/nile/actions/runs/9428563942, unzip, set executable permissions, pick it in Settings > Advanced

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you have to use a custom nile binary until the next heroic release

you can get it from https://nightly.link/imLinguin/nile/actions/runs/9428563942, unzip, set executable permissions, pick it in Settings > Advanced

im trying to do this but ik failing, i don't know how can add to heroic custom unzipped nile, says error every time, can explain better how add custom nile?

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Im trying that but i get this error: [...]

You have to make the binary executable chmod +x path/to/nile

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Came here to advise that the manual workaround of downloading the latest nile binary works

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Very sorry for the issue. We've been looking at a release for a few weeks now, sadly crucial people required for that were (and still are) busy with non-Heroic things. We're hoping to get a release out very soon.
I don't want to give a concrete timeframe here since I don't want to put pressure on contributors. Please do understand that we're volunteers working on this in our free time with little to no financial compensation

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The workaround worked as a charm! Thank you for the hint.

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I'm trying to install a game I got on Amazon Prime, and the app doesn't fetch the game info.

If I try to clear cache, nothing happens and if i try to reset i get this Exception:

Uncaught Exception occured!
Error:
A uncaught exception occured:
Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, lstat '\\?\C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\heroic\GamesConfig\gog-redist.log'
Report the exception on our Github repository.

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Im trying that but i get this error:

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Edit: Played with bazzite some more to get this working, I could NOT use the 'file picker' to select the binary, It would give a path such as /run/user/1000/ which never seemd to work right. But if i manually entered /home/bob/nile it worked. Not exactly sure why. On my Steam Deck the /run/user/1000/ path did work just fine. But not on bazzite.

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Been trying to do this as well, on my bazzite setup, HGL installed via flatpak.

nile is executable, I can run it via the command line, i have tried putting it in my ~.local/bin and a few other locations, and i do set it under the advanced tab, still not liking it. Im wondering if its a flatpak sandboxing issue going on. Or something with how Bazzite is setup.

example of what I mean..

I have the nile binary in ~/.local/bin

I select it in the advanced settings of HGL, i close the program, and reopen it, to verify the change took.

HGL is now showing the path as /run/user/1000/doc/611b7341/nile

If i check that path, via terminal, indeed - the nile binary is there. (and its still in .local/bin) this is likely some feature of Bazzite and btfs that I do not fully understand.

I am not really experienced with how Bazzite, and its ublue base and immutable design with btrfs, so there may be some quirk with Bazzite and doing this fix.

I have not yet tried this fix on my SteamDeck.

Edit: It worked on my Deck just fine. Put the extracted nile binary, in my users home, /home/deck/nile

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Thank you. I had this issue as well. nile fix it. 👍

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Just to add a comment for people who may be having similar issues. I couldn't get the new nile file to work for me for unknown reasons. Eventually, I figured out that I needed to copy the nile file to a folder that heroic games launcher had access to. for me /home/deck/.steam was a good folder to copy nile to and then configure in settings.

This is because HGL is a flatpak and I used FlatSeal to figure out which folders HGL had rights to access. It couldn't access my /home/deck/Downloads folder. So it would fail to work as many on this thread have posted.

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The problem is, the 1.1.0 fix as well as the one linked to in another issue have only been compiled for Apple Silicon (arm64) and not a universal binary with x86 support, leaving behind a whole lot of Intel users. I don't know if this is the intent of Heroic, but I certainly hope it isn't.

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for me /home/deck/.steam was a good folder to copy nile to and then configure in settings.

I think /home/deck/.steam is one of the directories that gets “cleaned up” whenever Steam installs a new version. The safest place to put the new nile is probably in the root of wherever Heroic installs games by default. (Mine is at /home/deck/Games/Heroic/nile and working great.)

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It's been a month, and at least the flatpack version for Linux is DOA without this manual workaround.

What's the timeline looking like for an updated release ?

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