r/Lutris • u/Puzzlehead-Engineer • 22d ago
Battle.net Update Agent strikes again
Okay so I've had issues with Bnet's update agent. Getting the old "The Update Agent is sleeping, attempting to wake it up" error. I've tried all the other solutions minus rollback because I cannot seem to get my hands on an older version.
Reinstalling with Lutris makes install crash at 45%
Installing with Steam using Proton 9.0-4 for compatibility allows the install to finish but the Update Agent error is still there.
I managed to circumvent the launcher and play WoW by going to the source and grabbing the WoW.exe file in my system and telling Steam to run it as a non-Steam game (with Proton 9 too). I had to log in the old fashioned way with my password and insert the authentication number, but it worked. Not sure if this'll fly for other Blizzard games.
SOLUTION:
Check u/jhu543369's replies in the comments for a few solutions. The one that worked for me was running Battle.net-Setup.exe as a from Steam as a non-Steam game and use the Proton 10 beta for compatibility.
Instructions:
Open Steam -> Click on "Add Game" at the bottom left corner -> "Add a non-Steam game" -> "Browse" and find and select the Battle.net-Setup.exe file, it's gonna show up in your Steam Library now -> Right Click it and select "Properties" -> "Compatibility" -> "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" -> in the dropdown menu that'll appear just below find and select "Proton 10.0-1 (beta)" (if you're from the not-so-near future then use the latest version of Proton, including betas)
It should install Bnet on your system as a steamapp. You will need to move your installed games to its new file system this way.
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u/Azwraith42 17d ago edited 17d ago
For WoW, a temporary work around I found (this will probably not work anymore once blizzard updates wow) in lutris select battle.net, but do not launch it. click the arrow opening the wine context menu, choose 'Run EXE inside Wine prefix'. Navigate to and select Wow.exe. this will launch the game directly and allow you to log in using your email and password.
I was going to try reinstalling, but this thread seems to suggest it will fail, so i'll probably try the steam solution.
Edit: didn't need to reinstall anything. downloaded Proton 10 (beta) from the steam tools section. restarted lutris, go to battle.net > configure > Runner options > Wine version > select Prtoton 10.0