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EA App, GoG and Epic (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Parptarf@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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!

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, running non-steam games with steam proton works well. One way to do it is bottles.

[–] Parptarf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does this work for games that I have in the EA App and Ubisoft-thingy too?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

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/

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I use bottles for other game launchers. You can select proton version once the bottle is created.

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To add, is it bad to have all these running on one machine ? Steam, Heroic, lutris, will it cause issues ?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No, they don't interact at all. You can have any number of similar applications, and run multiple games from them.