Best approach to using cheat engine with Heroic launcher on linux?
I'm looking to get cheat engine working with games I have on the heroic launcher. I'm on Linux (I also tagged Steam Deck as it might help SD users). The games I have are various games I've downloaded outside of any launcher (like itch.io games). I'm guessing native Linux games won't work with Cheat Engine, but I have a ton that I'm running through wine/proton/protonGE. Can anyone help me with this please?
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foreign-sapphireOP•9mo ago
btw, none of these games are online games. They're usually just low profile games made by small devs that I've beaten once.
stormy-gold•9mo ago
how would you run those tools if it was windows?
you probably need to do similar steps, when something needs to be installed use the
Run exe in prefix option in the game's settingsforeign-sapphireOP•9mo ago
Cheat Engine needs to be installed on windows, then launched from the exe. On Linux, I installed cheat engine on the prefix of several games and tried "Run exe in prefix" but if Cheat engine is running, The game won't launch. As soon as I close Cheat Engine, the game launches.
Heroic Launcher doesn't seem to let me run the game and cheat engine at the same time... which is required for cheat engine to work.
stormy-gold•9mo ago
check this https://discord.com/channels/812703221789097985/1210747284086849578/1210747284086849578
you can apply a similar idea to first run the cheat engine and then run the game all with that .bat script
foreign-sapphireOP•9mo ago
Thank you! I'll see if this works later
Not gonna lie, I was really confused on the instructions, but I figured it out and it worked! I put the file next to the exe, then changed the parameters in the file to the appropriate paths/name
and it worked!
Thank you so much!