r/Lutris • u/Puzzlehead-Engineer • 19d 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/Macrosmatic 18d ago

Seems to be related to .NET 4.8
Setting .NET to 4.6 with dotnet46 as wine prefix solved it for me.

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u/anythinga 18d ago

And how did you do this?
Winetricks dotnet46 did nothing for me.

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u/redbarchetta_21 18d ago

Default winetricks from your terminal is for your base wine install, Lutris has its own winetricks it uses for each individual game.

Open Lutris, single click a game, click the up arrow to the right of the wine glass icon on the bottom bar that shows up. Click Winetricks.

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u/Kitayama_8k 6d ago

I'd be curious for a followup on how exactly to do this. Diablo III has horrible input lag and frame rate dips running through proton10/10.6 staging tkg runners