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Title: How well the EGS client runs via Wine/Crossover?
Comandante Ñoñardo 10 Apr 2020
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I ask this because [CLOSE TO THE SUN](https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/close-to-the-sun/home?lang=en-US) is FREE until April 16th and that game convinced me to create an EGS account...
sr_ls_boy 10 Apr 2020
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It works very well for me.
Comandante Ñoñardo 10 Apr 2020
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For some reason, the client BLINKS and is impossible to view anything.
sr_ls_boy 10 Apr 2020
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Which wine version are you using? I'm using TkG Staging from TkGlitch.

Last edited by sr_ls_boy on 10 Apr 2020 at 5:24 pm UTC
Comandante Ñoñardo 10 Apr 2020
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Im using the latest Crossover...
sr_ls_boy 10 Apr 2020
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IIRC, I used lutris to get Epic going for me. But, now I just launch the generated wine prefix directly.
I've seen the issue that you have before, but I can't remember the hot fix. I would try wine staging or
Lutris.
Schattenspiegel 11 Apr 2020
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoFor some reason, the client BLINKS and is impossible to view anything.
you need '-opengl' as a launch option for the store
debiangamer 11 Apr 2020
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The Epic Launcher works fine with wine-5.5 (Staging) and DXVK 1.6.

[Playing Close to the Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ygWCM7PTk&list=UUcd5SYylkt9n48ZEH8KrI0A&index=2&t=0s)
Comandante Ñoñardo 12 Apr 2020
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Quoting: debiangamerThe Epic Launcher works fine with wine-5.5 (Staging) and DXVK 1.6.

[Playing Close to the Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ygWCM7PTk&list=UUcd5SYylkt9n48ZEH8KrI0A&index=2&t=0s)
Detailed instructions of the method that You used, please. :)
sr_ls_boy 12 Apr 2020
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Quoting: Schattenspiegelyou need '-opengl' as a launch option for the store
That should do it. I checked and I use it as well.
Comandante Ñoñardo 13 Apr 2020
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I'm going to try with Lutris, because the recent client update borked it in Crossover...
Now.... For some reason , Lutris is downloading dependencies veeeery slow....
Comandante Ñoñardo 14 Apr 2020
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Ok. I installed Lutris, Epic and the game Close to The sun...
But the performance is extremely low. I only have 20FPS with a GTX 970...
sr_ls_boy 14 Apr 2020
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Assassin's Creed II is a free title at Ubisoft right now.
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