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Do you use an application launcher / configuration manager like Lutris to do this? Or do you mean directly through steam? There's a steam game that I play often
by bt1a 1y ago
Do you use an application launcher / configuration manager like Lutris to do this? Or do you mean directly through steam? There's a steam game that I play often that tends to work the most frequently with proton hotfix for reasons unknown to me.
- russnes 1y agoNo just directly in Steam. You can just add a non steam game to your library and select the .exe file you want, and steam will create a c drive environment for each non steam game you add. In some cases you might have to change which exe file it runs, if you initially run a setup.exe which creates the real exe file you'd want to launch inside the c drive environment folder
- jack_pp 1y agoSo you could run battle.net inside Steam? That would be fun, I've had issues with battle.net on wine / lutris
- d3Xt3r 1y agoYes, Battle.net runs flawlessly in Steam, have zero issues playing D2R and D4 this way. In fact D4 ran flawlessly on Linux on Day 1, which came as a bit of a surprise to me.
- russnes 1y agoThe only thing I still can't run is League of Legends. I hope someone can figure that out somehow
- graynk 1y agoLutris doesn't have to mean Wine. It can launch apps via Proton too (and so can Heroic). I think it uses https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher behind the scenes, not sure, but so far I haven't run into any issues with this approach.
- saghm 1y agoI played WoW for several years this way without much issue. The only tweaking I ended up doing manually was to try to figure it out how to get the game to let me enable ray tracing, which I did get working but ended to being too much of a performance hit for my to leave on most of the time anyhow.
- safety1st 1y agoThis is exactly what I do, works great. I may have had to try one or two different recent versions of Proton via the drop-down, but it's way less hassle than when I used Lutris.
- busfahrer 1y agoThis is what I do, it feels weird, but works perfectly and is the least effort solution
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- 112233 1y agoWait, can I run non-games like that, too? Launch all kinds of windowed GUI programms from Steam?
- nemomarx 1y agoYeah, why not? Steam has non games on it by default - mostly art programs and utilities for whatever reason. When you're adding a non steam game to be run through steam it's just a wrapper and shortcut to it. Very handy on the steam deck for some programs