heroic games launcher is a foss epic and gog launcher, works very well and very fast for me on linux. it has a windows version, too.
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It's long because you have to copy and paste your password from the manager (and click "remember me") every time.
Tested 5 clients on my PC 3 times each. Times were more or less consistent on each run, biggest variation seemed for Uplay.
Setup: You are already logged in, there are no pending updates, you terminate client after each run (did not see significant time difference between repeated runs and 1st run after you log in), your logged in Windows account has admin rights so time is not wasted entering password (EGS and Uplay require admin rights to launch), time stops once launcher is usable.
- EGS - 8 - 10 seconds
- Steam - 20 seconds
- GOG - 11 seconds
- Uplay - 20 - 24 seconds
- Heroic - 5 seconds
System: Ryzen 2600 with Samsung 970 EVO (2400 MB/s R/W as per Samsung Magician benchmark)
Is there any chance you can add a test for Heroic launcher as well? I advocate for using it over EGS, and I'd like to know how it stacks up.
Is heroic only on Linux? I've never looked into installing it on Windows. It's a fantastic front end for the EGS/GOG on my Linux machines though.
It's on Windows as well :)
Wow Ubisoft game launcher opens in... Never? Wtf I paid money for this game and then I need to buy it again because they didn't actually give me the account and now the launcher is just dead and I can't even open it.
Fuck that. I bought one of the assassins creed games legitimately, then had it refuse to launch after a few weeks because they updated their launcher and borked it. I then pirated that same game to bypass the launcher issue and pirated every other ubisoft game since then.
If I have to pirate games to get around a deliberate flaw you worked into your program, I'm not paying for that game.
Do people just bash epic to bash epic?
No one I talk to in real life has ever had one of these complaints about the launcher, it has its issues, but logging and startup isn’t them.
Epic takes 2 or more minutes for me to launch. Also when Im in my library, the page keeps refreshing randomly which shoots you back to the top. Very fun UI.
Really? It takes ages to open for me.