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