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old-apricot
proton ge or wine ge
Which of the 2 should be used, wine ge or proton ge in heroic games launcher and what is their difference other than that proton ge is for steam.
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foreign-sapphire•3y ago
Proton's target is Steam so it has bunch of Steam specific stuff that is not helpful in Heroic+ due to its nature there is a potential to cause issues ( eg, cloud saves for example )
Wine GE is a Wine build which means doesn't target usage with Steam. Full name is Wine GE Proton , that is due to it carries patches from Proton upstream. So it still offers same game compat as Proton GE but does it for non Steam environments.
I use Wine GE on non Steam games.
wise-white•3y ago
Prefer Wine-GE, if a game doesn't work with that try with Proton-GE (I did find like 3 or 4 games in my library that wouldn't work with Wine-GE out of the box and do work out of the box with Proton-GE)
check these two reddit posts from GloriousEggroll for details https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/uzrz2k/a_thread_about_using_protonge_and_winege_builds/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/w0vfn1/another_protonge_vs_winege_thread/
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r/linux_gaming - A thread about using Proton-GE and Wine-GE builds
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r/linux_gaming - Another Proton-GE vs Wine-GE thread...
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deep-jade•3y ago
Also I avoid changing wine versions as much as possible.. For me, its been pretty rare that the wine version is the issue preventing the game from working.
Almost always its a dll that needs installation or similar
wouldn't work with Wine-GE out of the box and do work out of the box with Proton-GEStill puzzled how this is possible, considering they're the same wine version (just that one has DXVK and such builtin)
wise-white•3y ago
yeah, no idea, I already tested over 300 games, I found 3 games so far that didn't work out of the box with wine-ge but did with proton-ge (fallout 3, the lion's song, battletech)
IIRC Fallout 3 was something about GST libs (but that should also happen on Proton?)
If you have the time, a game log with Wine-GE & a
PROTON_LOG with Proton of those games would help. Who knows, maybe it's something we can add to Heroicwise-white•3y ago
for fallout 3 for example the sound was really glitchy in wine-ge, with proton-ge it worked fine, for battletech if failed because of missing
mono runtime, with the lion's song I don't remember, I didn't any note either on my list
I'll do another pass on the games that I couldn't get to work with wine-ge and the ones I couldn't get to work at all after I finish testingdeep-jade•3y ago
Battletech is just a unity game fwiw, so it shouldnt have issue, except we didnt encode the videos in a format that generally works in wine like stuff
Then again, I have it on steam so never really tried wine-ge with it