{"id":218030,"date":"2026-02-27T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/heroic-games-launcher-v2-20-1-brings-more-essential-bug-fixes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:10:08","slug":"heroic-games-launcher-v2-20-1-brings-more-essential-bug-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/heroic-games-launcher-v2-20-1-brings-more-essential-bug-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic Games Launcher v2.20.1 brings more essential bug fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/heroic-games-launcher-v2-20-1-brings-more-essential-bug-fixes\/\">Heroic Games Launcher v2.20.1 brings more essential bug fixes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/heroic-games-launcher-v2-20-1-brings-more-essential-bug-fixes\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/heroic-games-launcher-v2-20-1-brings-more-essential-bug-fixes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-27 06:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heroic Games Launcher continues to bring improvements to run games from Epic, GOG, Amazon and more on Linux \/ SteamOS systems with v2.20.1 out now. Part of their previously announced plans to bring updates out more quickly, as you get a better overall experience.<\/p>\n<p>Easily one of my favourite apps that&#8217;s available for Linux, it makes managing other stores so much simpler.<\/p>\n<p>This release solves an issue with changing Epic Games accounts, fixes an issue showing &#8220;an error has occurred&#8221; on some Linux distros, it makes the downloader smarter based on your internet connection and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The full changelog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[UI] Show update badge on gamecard only if controller is connected by @flavioislima in #5361<\/li>\n<li>[FIX] Change DXVK macos fix from previous release by @arielj in #5359<\/li>\n<li>[FIX] False positive &#8220;an error has occurred&#8221; messages on bleeding-edge Linux distros by @CommandMC in #5365<\/li>\n<li>[Feat] Automatically pause and resume downloads based connectivity status by @flavioislima in #5364<\/li>\n<li>[FIX] Use correct partition and clear data on epic logout by @arielj in #5354<\/li>\n<li>[FIX] Add a launch default option when none is available besides DLCs by @flavioislima in #5366<\/li>\n<li>[UX] Fix PATH on mac for intel homebrew and macports when checking winetricks deps by @arielj in #5353<\/li>\n<li>[UX] Show link to instructions to install winetricks deps on macos by @arielj in #5352<\/li>\n<li>[i18n] Updated Translations by @weblate in #5346<\/li>\n<li>[UX] Hide main window when quitting by @CommandMC in #5262<\/li>\n<li>[TECH] Updated legendary to latest version 0.20.42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: GitHub<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/heroic-games-launcher-v2-20-1-brings-more-essential-bug-fixes\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroic Games Launcher v2.20.1 brings more essential bug fixes https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/heroic-games-launcher-v2-20-1-brings-more-essential-bug-fixes\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-27 06:14:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/179423000id28575gol.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-218030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218032,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218030\/revisions\/218032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}