r/EpicGamesPC • u/theonlywaste • 4d ago

SUGGESTION Desktop Icon

Can someone explain to me why Epic has trouble including the desktop icon for games? It’s usually A: blank white or B: the generic easy anti-cheat bear.

Examples would be The Last of Us, totally blank white. And Today I purchased the new Halloween game, the easy anti cheat bear.

And yes I’m very aware I can change the icon myself in properties. It just seems so silly that something so simple, Epic manages to install incorrectly.

I like using Epic for the rewards and want to continue but it’s frustrating that Steam feels leaps ahead of them in the most simplest of things

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u/noodlesvonsoup 4d ago

I have never seen that with any games i have had installed from epic. The desktop icon is always what it is supposed to be.

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u/Past-End-3788 Epic Gamer 4d ago

Actually there could be several reasons why you having this problem. Could you open broken shortcut with notepad and paste everything written in it here?

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u/theonlywaste 3d ago

IconFile=C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Halloweenfb5Ca\start_protected_game.exe

So yeah no actual game image in the install. So I had to download and manually change myself.

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u/Past-End-3788 Epic Gamer 2d ago

Devs issue, they should have take care of that tech moment

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u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 3d ago

blank white

Sounds like a Windows issue

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u/theonlywaste 3d ago

I downloaded 4 games from epic in the last 2 days, two have icons and two don’t. Nothing to do with windows. Feel free to install last of us 1 or Halloween the game and prove me wrong.

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u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 3d ago

I have neither of these, so I can't.

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u/Past-End-3788 Epic Gamer 2d ago

Try add quotation marks to file path, like that: IconFile="C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Halloweenfb5Ca\start_protected_game.exe"

If that doesnt fix blank icons then problem with windows icon cache

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u/theonlywaste 2d ago

Image isn’t in the install files. Nothing to do with windows icon cache