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

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

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:

• • The Homebrew-command-line-based Game Porting toolkit from apple: https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Game_Porting_Toolkit

• • Whisky: https://github.com/IsaacMarovitz/Whisky/releases

• 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 in the 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!