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I haven't been able to get the Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) to run under Steam lately. I was able to get it running under Lutris, and it was fine until the 5.20 update. Haven't been able to play at all. It was good while it lasted, I guess. Time to look for a new solution. If anybody has any recs, I'd love to hear them. I'm running Linux Mint 22.3.
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Thanks for the recommendations and advice, all! I'm going to give Heroic a shot and see how it goes.
Bottles works much in the same way, and I always prefered it to Lutris. It's also pretty easy to use plain old Wine if you're comfy at all in the terminal. Pair it with winetricks and you can run most games with little hastle
is there a website like lutris has with all the install scripts others have made?
You run the game's actual installer exe file in the bottle to install the game. No installation script needed.
With wine you just need to know what winetricks to use, e.g. like if a game needs dotnet 4.0 or another windows runtime/prerequisite. Winehq has a similar premise with different compatabiltiy ratings and steps others have taken to troubleshoot. You wont get installer scripts but you will get good directions most of the time. Any game rated platinum or gold is a breeze to set up
Imma be honest, outside of Proton I just hate dealin with wine.
Which is why i liked Lutris and its install scripts so much.
but i will definitely bookmark that link in case i give wine a try again. tyvm
you should be able to just move the prefix into the folder managed by bottles or heroic, or add the existing folder location to either of those. All of them just present visuals on top of wine/proton. Might also have to manually download and set the wine/proton version from whichever apps built in management.
Bottles is also ran by an absolute shitty person who's slowly going insane.
Frankly I would avoid bottles even more then lutris and if your going to avoid both just use herotic.
Oh no, what's happening with Bottles now?
PortProton is a mighty thing in my experience. Has both a game library and the ability to add apps to app menu in two clicks.
As the name implies, offers a wide offering of Proton versions (Steam, GE, CachyOS, GDK, EM, Sarek, version for HoYoPlay...), as well as Wine. Can detect popular games and choose perfect settings. Has one-click installs for some popular games and launchers. Available as Flatpak.
Downsides: the only languages available are English, Russian and Spanish, and advanced config can be more involved than with Lutris. In fairness though, you'll barely ever need it.