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Game-Porting-Toolkit-With-Heroic-Games-Launcher

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Guide: Using the Game Porting Toolkit with the Heroic Games Launcher • Link

This is particularly useful because as it currently stands, the real Epic Games Launcher fails to install under the Game Porting Toolkit.

  • Install either of the following:
  • Install the native macOS Heroic Games Launcher from https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases (or from Homebrew)
  • Open Heroic, and log into your Epic Games and/or GoG account.
  • Go to the "Wine Manager" and install a numbered version of Wine, such that it won't auto update- we are going to modify it.
    • At the time of writing this, the newest numbered version of Wine-Crossover is "Wine-Crossover-Wine-22.1.0"
  • Press the folder icon that appears after installing it to open the directory containing Heroic's Wine installations.
  • Right-click on the version of Wine you just installed and press "Show Package Contents"
  • Open this directory in the Terminal
    • If you have "OpenInTerminal" this is one button, otherwise press "Show Path Bar" and navigate where it says with "cd"
    • It should be something like "cd ~/Library/Application Support/heroic/tools/wine/Wine-crossover-wine-22.1.0"
  • "cd Contents/MacOS"
  • Remove the existing Wine: "rm wine"
  • Create a symlink to Game Porting Toolkit's Wine:
    • CLI Game Porting Toolkit: "ln -s `/usr/local/bin/brew --prefix game-porting-toolkit`/bin/wine64 wine"
    • Whisky: "ln -s /Applications/Whisky.app/Contents/Resources/Libraries/Wine/bin/wine64 wine"
  • "cd ../Resources"
  • Remove the existing Wine: "rm -rfv wine"
  • Create a symlink to Game Porting Toolkit's Wine
    • CLI Game Porting Toolkit: "ln -s `/usr/local/bin/brew --prefix game-porting-toolkit` wine"
    • Whisky: "ln -s /Applications/Whisky.app/Contents/Resources/Libraries/Wine wine"
  • We are now done with Terminal. Install any games you want to try playing.
  • Select the game you want to play, and press the settings button in the top-right
  • Make sure the version of Wine you just downloaded and modified is selected
  • Make sure your Game Porting Toolkit Wine Prefix is selected. If you followed Apple's guide this is /Users/you/my-game-prefix
  • If you Open the "Other" section you can also add any environment variables you want like "WINEESYNC=1" and "MTL_HUD_ENABLED=1"
  • Close the settings and try running the game!
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