[EPIC]: Support third-party managed applications

[imLinguin]

This enables support for EA games in Heroic by installing EA App in wine prefix when needed.

We still need to see how this all behaves with Mac native games. At the moment only Windows titles are taken care of

Use the following Checklist if you have changed something on the Backend or Frontend:

• Tested the feature and it's working on a current and clean install.
• Tested the main App features and they are still working on a current and clean install. (Login, Install, Play, Uninstall, Move games, etc.)
• Created / Updated Tests (If necessary)
• Created / Updated documentation (If necessary)

[arielj]

it's working good, I'll continue testing more games but all good so far

I added minor comments

[arielj]

I tested the 4 ea games I have (star wars squadrons, star wars battlefront 2, dragon age, sims 4) and they all worked with this (for dragon age I needed the legendary build with the fix form the legendary repo too)

I had some issue with squadrons but that was unrelated to heroic (it wouldn't finish the installation with wine-ge for me, so I had to install the game using wine-staging -that failed to run- and then switch to wine-ge, I'm testing if everything works with proton)

not sure if someone else wants to review/test this but it's working (maybe in the future we could check some things like allowing importing the game, but I don't think we need to worry about that at this point)

[arielj]

I think the only thing I was expecting to happen is that the filter for third-party managed apps also included Ubisoft games that need the ubisoft launcher (heroic can only install old versions of those games that always need an update during the first run)

but it's fine if we do that at another point too

[imLinguin]

I think the only thing I was expecting to happen is that the filter for third-party managed apps also included Ubisoft games that need the ubisoft launcher (heroic can only install old versions of those games that always need an update during the first run)

but it's fine if we do that at another point too

Actually you can use the filter I added for third-party apps in Heroic. Notice Ubisoft isn't there, as Ubisoft's integration is completely different.

[arielj]

I think the only thing I was expecting to happen is that the filter for third-party managed apps also included Ubisoft games that need the ubisoft launcher (heroic can only install old versions of those games that always need an update during the first run)
but it's fine if we do that at another point too

Actually you can use the filter I added for third-party apps in Heroic. Notice Ubisoft isn't there, as Ubisoft's integration is completely different.

right, I meant that I expected that new filter to include Ubisoft games, even though the integration is different it's mostly managed by the ubisoft launcher (heroic can install the game, but then updates, launching, saves, etc, it's all done by the ubisoft launcher at the end, so technically it's managed by ubisoft, not really managed by heroic, or managed by both)

maybe at some point I make a PR for that, not really something needed or urgent though

[imLinguin]

I see what you mean. For Ubisoft we get the possibility that Epic downloads the game files. Like you mentioned after that initial download Ubisoft Connect takes over. I think this is a matter of discussion where do we draw that thid-party managed line

[Zahrun]

dragon age I needed the legendary build with the fix form the legendary repo t

I’m trying to get dragon age to work. Can you please tell which is the exact "legendary build with the fix from the legendary repo" that you used?

[Zahrun]

I built the AppImage version of Heroic Game Launcher from the branch feat/epic-ea. I also built the latest git commit of legendary derrod/legendary@7fefdc4 and registered it into Settings --> Advanced --> Alternative Legendary Binary.
When installing Dragon Age: Inquisition - Game of the Year Edition, it seems the EA Game Launcher installs. But then I can’t get it to run.

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(17:07:59) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Game list updated, got 20 games & DLCs
(17:08:09) INFO:    [Backend]:          Launching Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition (verdi)
(17:08:09) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking if wine version exists: Wine Default - wine-9.8 (Staging)
(17:08:09) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking if wine version exists: Wine Default - wine-9.8 (Staging)
(17:08:09) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking if wine version exists: Wine Default - wine-9.8 (Staging)
(17:08:09) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking if wine version exists: Wine Default - wine-9.8 (Staging)
(17:08:09) ERROR:   [Backend]:          Couldn't find all library folders of Wine Default - wine-9.8 (Staging)!
Missing undefined and/or undefined!
Falling back to system libraries!
(17:08:09) DEBUG:   [Backend]:          Running Wine command: wineboot --init
(17:08:14) INFO:    [DXVKInstaller]:    installing dxvk on... /run/media/data2/Heroic-feat-epic-ea/Dragon Age Inquisition
(17:08:14) INFO:    [DXVKInstaller]:    dxvk already installed!
(17:08:14) INFO:    [DXVKInstaller]:    installing vkd3d on... /run/media/data2/Heroic-feat-epic-ea/Dragon Age Inquisition
(17:08:14) INFO:    [DXVKInstaller]:    vkd3d already installed!
(17:08:14) ERROR:   [Backend]:          Couldn't find all library folders of Wine Default - wine-9.8 (Staging)!
Missing undefined and/or undefined!
Falling back to system libraries!
(17:08:14) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Launching Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition: HEROIC_APP_NAME=verdi HEROIC_APP_RUNNER=legendary HEROIC_APP_SOURCE=epic LD_PRELOAD= DOTNET_BUNDLE_EXTRACT_BASE_DIR= DOTNET_ROOT= WINEPREFIX="/run/media/data2/Heroic-feat-epic-ea/Dragon Age Inquisition" WINEDLLOVERRIDES=winemenubuilder.exe=d WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=0 WINEESYNC=1 WINEFSYNC=1 PROTON_EAC_RUNTIME=/home/aroun/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/eac_runtime PROTON_BATTLEYE_RUNTIME=/home/aroun/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/battleye_runtime ORIG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/.mount_HeroicjNVew9/usr/lib: LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=/home/aroun/.config/heroic/legendaryConfig/legendary /home/aroun/.local/bin/legendary launch verdi --wine /usr/bin/wine --language en --origin
(node:43596) MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 progressUpdate-verdi listeners added to [EventEmitter]. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit
(Use `heroic --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(17:08:14) INFO:    [Backend]:          Stopping Power Saver Blocker
(17:08:14) INFO:    [Backend]:          Stopping Display Power Saver Blocker
(17:08:14) INFO:    [Frontend]:         Refreshing legendary Library
(17:08:14) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Refreshing library...
(17:08:14) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Refreshing Epic Games...
(17:08:14) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Running command: LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=/home/aroun/.config/heroic/legendaryConfig/legendary /home/aroun/.local/bin/legendary list --third-party
(17:08:18) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Game list updated, got 20 games & DLCs

EDIT: Openend the settings of the game in Heroic and pressed run exe on prefix "/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop/EA Desktop/EADesktop.exe"

[5/26/2024, 5:20:06 PM] LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=/home/aroun/.config/heroic/legendaryConfig/legendary /home/aroun/.local/bin/legendary eos-overlay info --prefix "/run/media/data2/Heroic-feat-epic-ea/Dragon Age Inquisition"

[cli] INFO: Using prefix "/run/media/data2/Heroic-feat-epic-ea/Dragon Age Inquisition"

[cli] INFO: No Legendary-managed installation found.

[cli] INFO: Found available Overlay installations in:

[cli] INFO: Overlay enabled: No

[cli] INFO: Enabled Overlay path: None

[cli] INFO: No enabled Vulkan layers.

[5/26/2024, 5:20:06 PM] HEROIC_APP_NAME=verdi HEROIC_APP_RUNNER=legendary HEROIC_APP_SOURCE=epic LD_PRELOAD= DOTNET_BUNDLE_EXTRACT_BASE_DIR= DOTNET_ROOT= WINEPREFIX="/run/media/data2/Heroic-feat-epic-ea/Dragon Age Inquisition" WINEDLLOVERRIDES=winemenubuilder.exe=d WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=0 WINEESYNC=1 WINEFSYNC=1 PROTON_EAC_RUNTIME=/home/aroun/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/eac_runtime PROTON_BATTLEYE_RUNTIME=/home/aroun/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/battleye_runtime ORIG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/.mount_HeroicrfRk58/usr/lib: LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=/home/aroun/.config/heroic/legendaryConfig/legendary /home/aroun/.local/bin/legendary launch verdi --wine /usr/bin/wine --language en --origin

[cli] ERROR: The specified game is not an Origin title.

EDIT: found the legendary fix at derrod/legendary#632

[arielj]

I built the AppImage version of Heroic Game Launcher from the branch feat/epic-ea. I also built the latest git commit of legendary derrod/legendary@7fefdc4 and registered it into Settings --> Advanced --> Alternative Legendary Binary. When installing Dragon Age: Inquisition - Game of the Year Edition, it seems the EA Game Launcher installs. But then I can’t get it to run.

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EDIT: found the legendary fix at derrod/legendary#632

do you still need the steps? I see you found the binary (you don't need to build the code from source, all binaries are automatically generated for each PR)

[Zahrun]

Yes, this branch works for installing EA Games Launcher and the fixed legendary allows to run it and install the game within that.
I’m only left to find out how to launch the game without it crashing
verdi-lastPlay.log

[arielj]

those errors seem unrelated to this PR, for help with that you should ask in Discord (join discord and create a thread in #-support sharing the logs after trying with Wine-GE (not wine staging))