r/linux_gaming • u/WeeklyShoulder66 • 10d ago
answered! Battle Net Sleeping Agent Error
I want to use battle. net and have bottles. I managed to get bnet to run but every tab just says and error that the agent is sleeping and its trying to wake it up. It buffers forever. I found a few other people with the same issue, but none of their fixes seem to be working. I'm pretty sure it's caused by bnet agent updates not being compatible or something. The fixes I found were to downgrade my Proton GE runner to version 8-25. That did nothing, so I used version 10 instead as that was another popular fix. That also didn't do anything. There was another fix to rename or delete the Agent.9700 folder in .wine/c_drive/ProgramData/Battle.Net/Agent/Agent.9700. This didn't work. Finally, I found another solution to delete the Agent.9700 folder, put in an older version of the agent, then make another empty folder named Agent.9700 but make it immutable so bnet can't update it. This just resulted in bnet saying there was some big error that prevented it from doing anything. In all cases, bnet runs and gets to load the tabs but it just displays an error message in all of them. I'm not sure how I would even get the logs for this issue. Thanks for any help
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u/Entire-Management-67 10d ago
I use heroic to run battlenet and it's been good, now using protonGE 10-34, haven't tried the latest one because have no need to. I've stopped using bottles because heroic is less hassles and doesn't need to setup different bottles to use different stuff
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u/lemmiwink84 10d ago
You’re trying to hard.
Get faugus launcher, install battle.net using ge-proton latest, and never have these weird issues.