And the excitement I had has gone. Removed from wish list and added to ignore list.

I also I noticed I have

–skip-launcher

In the box for launch options in steam.

I don’t have dotnet 6 installed either and running straight from Heroic fails every time. When added thru the steam client it works.

I installed with heroic Add non steam game Highlight bg3.exe or maybe dx version can’t remember now from bin directory “not launcher” Run with proton 8.0.3 I think Crashed first time but fine since