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[Discussion] Epic (so they says) Game Launcher on the Deck (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've just installed Epic Game Launcher on the Deck and had an issue where the starting screen was black. I've already find the fix in * this discussion.

Here's the copy of the post

Thanks to

Lopsided_Elephant_24 • 1 hr. ago • Edited 45 min. ago

I found something that seems to work. In the 3rd party launcher in Steam used for the Epic game launcher, go to Properties->Shortcut->Target, and change the text to:

"{The path to the epic game launcher}/EpicGamesLauncher.exe" -opengl

From Ayinde6

LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS FOR YOU

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's generally much better to use HeroicGamesLauncher IMO

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I spent hours trying to get Epic to work with Lutris and it was a terrible pain. I wish I had tried Heroic months ago lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I abandoned lutris for Bottles a while ago, it was a good decision.

I have one bottle for Battle.net and another for EA.

Heroic for GOG.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This is the way to go. Easiest setup ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Bottles

This is The Way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't know of this one. I'll consider installing it in the future. Still, having EG launcher comes in handy when i have to quickly add some new free game, so is still fine 💁‍♂️.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Heroic does all of that. You login to the store. I claim the free games inside it every week. And shit just works.

Also does gog and amazon. Great software

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Good to know. I'll definitely check that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes but I experienced periodical logouts from Epic sadly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

My desktop epic client already does this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When was the last time you tried heroic? I was getting pretty frequent log outs about a year ago, but it was fixed in an update and has been pretty flawless for me for a few months now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A month or two ago. I saw notes in changelog that supposedly it should be fixed, but it kept happening. I might revisit in the future

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Try hitting up their discord. They've been super responsive and unbelievably patient the couple times I had an issue

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, don't support companies that are actively and openly hostile to Linux

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't. My entire Epic library is freebies, and it's well over 200 games at this point. I can't imagine them getting telemetry data that says the host OS is Linux is the kind of "support" that turns them away from reconsidering Linux.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm just a guy on the Internet, do whatever. 🤷‍♂️ Just seems silly spending time fighting to use software from a company that actively campaigns against linux and calls it nonviable. I can understand corporate indifference, but epic is different. And unfortunately, wine/proton identify host os as windows 7.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Sure. I wasn't being combative, just pointing out that there are cases that don't give them much support. And if Proton reports as Win 7 (a discontinued OS), then it becomes a wash, since the alternative would have been Windows 10/11 anyway.

If they want to miss out on the market share of Steam Deck users, that's their poor business choice to make.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Didn't they just win a lawsuit against google for "noncompetitive and monopolistic practices"?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I spent hours trying to get Epic to work before saying "fuck it" and pirated the games. You know we're in the worst timeline when pirating is infinitely easier than installing games you've bought.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Piracy is an issue of service, not price - Gabe Newell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well, EG launcher kinda sucks on any device in my experience. Honestly, the only reason i've installed it is to have the free games on the Deck. I've used this guide and the fix in the post.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Why not Heroic Games Launcher?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

not worth the effort when Heroic does the job better imo

unless there's a niche scenario in which Heroic won't work

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

You need heroic or lutris

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Here’s what works for me: I run Lutris (flatpak), pick up Epic Games on the left panel, proceed with login in Lutris. Once logged in, I pick up a game and hit install. When running for the first time it will install EGS. Proceed with the installation, launch and login in the EGS if it’s first launch. Install the game choosen in Lutris in EGS, then close EGS and Lutris should figure out that the game is now installed. You can test it from there, but you can now add your games to Steam from Lutris by right-clicking them. If adding games from Lutris doesn’t work, it might be problem with Flatpak permissions. I use Flatseal (available on Flathub just like Lutris) to edit them. Lutris must be able to write in ./local/share/Steam and if I remember correctly by default the path was added, but with the :ro flag that I deleted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for sharing!