Wine games take ~7 minutes to launch

Occhioverde commented 1 month ago

Describe the bug

As per the title, Windows games launched through Wine by Heroic take around 5 minutes to actually start, independently of the Wine/Proton version itself.

It might be also worth noting that the same issue doesn't occur in Steam or with other executables launched outside Heroic.

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Steps to reproduce

Go to your library in Heroic
Choose a game to launch and open its page
Click on "Play now"
Wait around 5 minutes before the orange "Playing" button appears
Wait another 2 minutes before the actual game window spawns.

Expected behavior

The main game screen should appear in no more than a couple of minutes, just like what happens in Steam.

Screenshots

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Heroic Version

Latest Stable (Flatpak)

System Information

CPU: 8x AMD Custom APU 0405
Memory: 15.53 GB (used: 4.41 GB)
GPUs:
  GPU 0:
    Name: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] VanGogh [AMD Custom GPU 0405]
    IDs: D=163f V=1002 SD=0123 SV=1002
    Driver: amdgpu
OS: SteamOS 3.5.19 holo (linux)

The current system is a Steam Deck (model: LCD) in desktop mode
We are running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:
  Heroic: 2.14.1 Flame Emperor Sabo
  Legendary: 0.20.34 Direct Intervention
  gogdl: 1.0.1
  Nile: 1.0.2 Jonathan Joestar

Additional information

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imLinguin commented 1 month ago

The timeline here

22:11:32 - called launch
22:11:32 - Heroic calls wineboot to create prefix
22:15:34 - Heroic began installation of DXVK in prefix
22:15:34 - Heroic called the game

I assume wineboot was the thing that took so long here. I have no idea why it would take so long, but that's not Heroic's fault.

Are subsequent launches of the game as long as here?

Occhioverde commented 1 month ago

Thank you very much for your reply.

If I understand how Wine works the prefix should be created only the first time the game is started (which would be totally understandable to take some minutes), but this is (at least) the fifth launch since I installed the game yesterday, played it a couple times and ran some tests before filing this issue...

Maybe there is a problem with the setup of the prefix that triggers its recreation?

TypicallyThomas commented 2 weeks ago

I'm having the same issue

Heroic-Games-Launcher / HeroicGamesLauncher