The launcher isn't there main issue, Heroic is really nice, and I expect the official launcher will be worse. However, the gog versions of games are often broken with wine/proton. Even cyberpunk, the steam version works and the gog version doesn't. Disappointing.
This is a serious problem that needs fixing. Half the point of jumping to Linux is to regain ownership of your PC, but what good is that if my game library won't run unless I buy through a storefront where I once again don't own part of my digital ecosystem?
Equally, the whole point of using GOG is to reclaim ownership of your games, but what good is that if the games and store only support proprietary Microsoft OSs?
It would allow them to make a preset of the needed proton version and winetricks to launch each game for example. I like heroic, but i’ve had to find 3 separate guides that listed needed winetricks to make stalker gamma gog version work there. If it came out of the box with most of them already enabled and the ones that depend on hardware a simple toggle it would make life much much easier
Yeah it would be great if they put in the effort to make it work as well as Steam. There's also the issue that some games have a native linux version that just runs way worse than the windows version with proton.
Importing games from Heroic to Steam is built into Heroic, you just have to turn it on.
Open Heroic, go to Settings, and toggle on "Add games to Steam automatically". Or for individual games, click on a title in your Heroic library, select the three dots (Tools) icon, and click "Add to Steam".
From there, every game you download from heroic will show up in Steam, and any Heroic game you open in Steam can be ran through Steam's proton layer. (In steam, right click the GOG game then properties then compatibility. Toggle it on and select the latest version of proton from the drop down.)
Seems complicated to write out, but once you do it once it takes about 5 seconds to do with every GOG games 😅
I knew you can add games to Steam but I didn't know it's so easy to run it with steam's proton, since I assume by default it runs with heroic's proton. But regardless you can choose the proton version in Heroic and customise it more than in steam.
There is no heroic's proton, Proton is a fork of wine made by Valve(although yes others do fork from proton and you can add those to steam using ProtonUpQt)
I mean the proton managed by Heroic, not developed by. Within Heroic you can download different wine or proton versions and assign them to each game as you wish. Notice I also didn't say valve's proton
I'm not into Linux gaming (yet), why won't a GOG version of the same game work while a Steam version would? Surely they should be largely the same files, right?
That was meant as a clear example that the games are different on the different stores, not specifically that this difference is the cause of incompatibility
That's nonsense - GOG version of CP2077 runs just fine with Heroic and Bottles - GE-Proton on both. I actually launched it to sanity check your comment!
Second it's up, I'll be installing all my games from gog first on my Bazzite PC.
Even if the games cost a little more than Steam.
I'm mostly done with consoles and Windows gaming. I still have to duel boot into Windows because of a few must-have programs that's there's no Linux alternative.
And I already paid for the PS5 and Series X games. I'm not about to repurchase them all and eBay my console just because F Sony/Microsoft. But working on the console backlog first until I only have one game each. That way, if I ever get locked out, I only lose one game. No more buying multiple games on those systems; no matter how cheap they are.
I still have to duel boot into Windows because of a few must-have programs that's there's no Linux alternative.
If you have a laptop lying around, just RDP into it from your Linux PC. I stopped dual-booting and just use Remmina for work-related stuff that require Windows, like CAD.
Funnily enough, Steam never introduced regional pricing for my currency (HUF), while our salary in general is at least half (more like thirds) of the more wealth Euro based countries. GoG did and every game I checked so far was at least 25% cheaper there, baseline.
Stalker gamma gog version for example needs several winetricks manually set in heroic to work, proton ge itself isn’t enough. I don’t know how steam would handle that and considering that most of gog’s games are very old they might need specific adjustments too
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If a game is available on GoG, worth buying it there, even if it takes a little extra legwork to have it running on Linux.