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You absolutely can add any executable to Heroic Launcher, i don't really have any games i play from CDs to test it, but it you can run it in wine, it can run in Heroic Launcher pretty much.

Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: sobkasSo does anyone know a good replacement for Lutris that isn't Heroic Games Launcher?

I jumped to Heroic a couple of months ago and it's a breath of fresh air. But if it's not for you, I suppose Arch Wiki has you covered. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gaming [External Link]

There's a section on launchers in there.

Edit - oh, and I just noticed that Liam covered another alternative earlier today!

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/nonsteamlaunchers-v394-gets-save-backups-using-ludusavi/

Can you install and add games that aren't on any of those platforms? Iso's and cds ect

Does it have a mangohud toggle as well like lutris does?

I've never used anything other then lutris (then emulationstation for my main GUI) so abit unsure about the alternatives

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This makes me less interested in playtron not more, i stopped using Lutris years ago, it will certainly be interesting to see where this all goes, but Playtron really is not something I am interested in much at this point, it still seems like pie in the sky to me. What I am worried about is when Playtron fails what happens to all these projects that anchored themselves to it.. it could potentially be really bad for Linux gaming.

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Here is a guide for Heroic Launcher GOG version I am maintaining i got it working really well no crashes and audio is perfect.

https://gist.github.com/nebadon2025/0bb34ba28dec2e1a3b3bfdcb096f65c8 [External Link]

if you find any mistakes please let me know here or on discord!

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I just installed 555 Beta driver on Kubuntu 24.04 and nothing is changed for me, everything still flickers like crazy in wayland, in my first 20 minutes or so of using it, it feels worse than 550 and 545 drivers did, steam is flickering like crazy now.

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Yea I just installed to test and its the EA Anticheat Installer that is failing, it detects wine and the game can not be launched until the installer runs, so this game is now effectively dead even for single player missions.

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: nebadon2025Is this an official partnership with valve for SteamOS or are they just making their own image and calling it SteamOS? I feel like if there is no official partnering with Valve on this that its probably not going to go as well as it could.

Well I keep thinking: if the device runs on a similar (or almost the same) hardware, would not SteamOS "just run" on it?
If the answer is "yes", then they might not even need to create their own modified image version, right?

Well the steamdeck is a custom SOC with custom power tables that are not the same as off the shelf AMD hardware, so I am not sure its that simple, there are likely many other differences as well, so its probably not going to just boot up properly as stuff like firmware will also be very different. Since the source code has never been released yet its hard to say what exactly valve is doing that would only be specific/relevant to the Steam Deck hardware.

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Is this an official partnership with valve for SteamOS or are they just making their own image and calling it SteamOS? I feel like if there is no official partnering with Valve on this that its probably not going to go as well as it could.

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I just gave it a try on desktop and the deck and pretty much zero improvement in any kind of performance from what I can tell, my desktop machine started compiling shaders again after the update but started at 98% and took 15 minutes to get to 100% again. On steam deck still the same 35fps wondering around indoors and any kind of zombies or battle it plunges down to mid-low 20fps range. It is good they are fixing the bugs but seems like any chance of this game working well on the deck is still far off.

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Red Dead Redemption2 is awesome on the steam deck, I am well into a full replay on the deck and have been loving it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ_10pOcdII [External Link]

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