I’ve got Steam pretty dialed and working great. EA App is also decent but not sure I like Lutris that much. Got Epic and GoG set up on Heroic, but other than a few modern ones, games from either don’t run that good. If I understand correctly this is cause they’re using Wine and not Proton.(?)
Would adding these games to Steam using the third party games function effectively make them use Proton like they’re steam games?(I find conflicting information regarding this) Or is there a way for Lutris and/or Heroic to just use Proton out of the box?
Running Nobara KDE.
Edit: Got Fomo, installing Fedora 42 right now. Testing out Bottles!
You can select GE-Proton in Heroic under “Wine Manager”.
Most games simply work for me in Heroic but sometimes I have to try a few versions until it’s working properly.
Oh, I misunderstood completely what Wine Manager actually is it seems like. Though that was just a configure tool for Wine.
I’ll have a look. I like Heroic’s interface WAY more than Lutris
Edit: Would you look at that, if I only actually looked in that menu I would have tried it already. Giving it a go now
Well, these launchers can be a bit confusing at first, but you will get used to all that. And if you still have questions, that’s what the community is here for.
This community has been mind-blowingly helpful every single step of the way so far. At this point I cannot see myself going back to windows. Other than the few things I use that won’t work obviously.
If you don’t like the Lutris interface give Bottles a try.
Does Bottles support Epic and GoG?
You can take the windows installer from GoG and run it in a bottle, but honestly Heroic is much more convenient for that. Bottles works for any local game installer though, just like Lutris, but it has a more accessible interface, and once you’ve installed games you can add the shortcut to the bottles library which gives you a tiled view like Heroic.
If you wanted to play many games from GoG and Epic, would you personally go for Heroic or Bottles? 😁
Heroic, definitely.
Okay, cool, thanks! I’ll give it a shot! ❤️
+1
To add, is it bad to have all these running on one machine ? Steam, Heroic, lutris, will it cause issues ?
No, they don’t interact at all. You can have any number of similar applications, and run multiple games from them.
Yeah, running non-steam games with steam proton works well. One way to do it is bottles.
Does this work for games that I have in the EA App and Ubisoft-thingy too?
EA App works great with Bottles. I haven’t tried Ubisoft Connect myself, but the website says it works on a “gold” level - so might have some problems.
You can use the Bottles installers for that: https://docs.usebottles.com/bottles/installers Here’s the list of all apps they have preconfigured: https://usebottles.com/appstore/
I can’t say for sure, but the internet seems to think so: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/heres-how-to-get-the-ea-app-on-steam-deck-with-bottles/
Adding non-Steam games has never worked well for me.
Another issue is that there is a database of tweaks Proton uses to make games work better, but I don’t think it uses it for non-Steam games.
Heroic with umu do use these tweaks.
I use bottles for other game launchers. You can select proton version once the bottle is created.
