Yeah you can Google how to install wow on Steam deck and follow the guide, with a caveat that on the steps between installing battle.net and creating a launcher for it on Steam after it’s installed, I suggest moving the contents of the proton bottle to a shared space so you keep you credentials. Let me get on my pc in a few minutes and I’ll get you some instructions.
Add it to Steam from the Games > Add a non-steam game to my library…
Right click on it from Steam library, Properties…, Compatibility, check “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool” and select Proton Experimental. Close the window.
Run the installer by double-clicking it in your library. Go through it as usual, make sure you uncheck to start it with Windows, and to mark Keep me logged in.
Install WoW (don’t need 100% installation, just start it), and click on the cog icon and Create a desktop shortcut (no shortcut will be created in your desktop)
Open Battle.net settings and in App, On Game Launch, set to Exit Battle.net completely.
You can also mark When clicking X, Exit Battle.net completely.
When done, close it fully (from tray and etc).
Navigate to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata and find the folder with the Battle.net installation (it’s going to be the one with a longer name, and most recently modified).
(Optional, see footnote) Move the contents of the pfx folder somewhere else like ~/.local/games/proton_prefix/pfx and create a symlink from ~/.local/games/proton_prefix/pfx to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/XXXXXXXX/pfx:
Footnote: The reason for moving the proton prefix folder away is that this way you can have a shared proton prefix for all your non-steam proton games with the advantage of keeping a shared login state and etc between the apps since the registry is stored inside the pfx folder, but have a separate shortcut for each in your steam library by always creating this symlink back to the shared folder, and the ability to tune proton settings to each different application separately as those settings they are kept in the parent folder.
This seems promising, but if I may ask how would I do something like this for a private server client (1.12.1)? Also I managed to get battle.net installed through bottles. The only caveat is that I needed to change its runner to caffe latest version.
Right, I guess if you already the wow client, you could skip it all and just add wow.exe as a non-steam game to your library and try that, it should work.
Otherwise if you’re dealing with the old school wow installer wizards, I guess you can follow the steps in a similar way except use the wow installer where it mentions the battle.net installer.
Clicking the plus in lutris and selecting “install from exe” would let you download the battle.net launcher from the web. Other than that I’d set lutris to use the latest proton version maybe, instead of wine.
I’m not that knowledgeable on the subject either sadly, and haven’t tried to install wow specifically yet.
Tried that but I am now getting the following output:
<span style="color:#323232;">lutris-wrapper: /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-24-x86_64/bin/wine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Started initial process 540064 from /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-24-x86_64/bin/wine /home/mart/Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Start monitoring process.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">fsync: up and running.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
</span><span style="color:#323232;">wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Monitored process exited.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Initial process has exited (return code: 13568)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Exit with return code 13568
</span>
I looked the error code up a bit, and someone suggested in an old post to run the following which I did:
wine client error:150: write: Bad file descriptor 01a8:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\lirsgt": c0000142
A little searching found that this is a copy protection file. Interesting because I copied the disc’s files to a directory and installed from there. Wondering if installing from the discs themselves would fare better.
If this is a gaming only computer and you don’t want to go off fussing with installing packages from other sources and maintaining a hybrid system, just install Nobara Linux.
Doesn’t look…very user-friendly? As a lazy ubuntu/deb user, I’m a bit concerned about jumping to rpm/arch…Isn’t there any other alternatives that are ubuntu/debian-based with KDE?
That’s kinda why I said “if it’s a gaming-only computer”. Nobara is the best and simplest out-of-the-box experience for gaming. Do everything through the GUI, treat it like an appliance-ish. Updates, packages, it’s all got its own GUI.
My gaming PC runs a mix of Debian testing with some stuff pulled in from sid and some stuff from experimental (just Mesa, really), plus a Xanmod kernel which updates frequently (I’m not convinced the patches make much difference).
I did all this because I’m a long time Debian user (going almost 3 decades) and I wanted the computer for a bit more than gaming. It’s not without its issues though, and I find myself frequently tinkering and troubleshooting.
I still have a Nobara partition that I can boot into, update and trust that it will be game-ready without fuss.
So…how did you get that damn partition working?? I’ve just tried it. Which required me an EFI partition of at least 600MB. I already had it at 500MB but apparently it didn’t think that was enough…So I had to reinstall all of windows in order to resize the EFI. Then Nobara installer was happy when I chose the EFI partition as “/boot/efi”, and 500GB at the end of the same SSD as “/”. After a reinstall, reboot…and it goes to Windows. Ugh. Manually choosing from the BIOS the new “Fedora” entry I get a grub crash. start_image returned “not found”…Wtf? For a “simplified” installation, this is resulting quite the PITA.
EDIT: OMG…figured it out, but holy cow. The installer is rather borked. It demands 600MB for /boot/efi, which at least this, it warns you of. BUT. It will install without warnings a full system and then crap out, if you ignore a very specific requisite not mentioned anywhere during the install! You need at least a 1GB ext4 partition somewhere for /boot. Ignore this, and you’re crapped.
Oh wow, that sounds fucked up. I don’t remember the ext4 requirement for /boot but after reading your comment the EFI stuff came back to me. I also thought it was weird and painful.
Anyway, glad you sorted it out. It should (hopefully) be smooth sailing from here.
Sigh…Thanks. I wish it was. I just ran the same Alan Wake install on the provided Lutris and well…the Textures are indeed fixed, I can see the FBI jackets and the faces look better…but now performance is abysmal, with frame drops to 10-15fps (1080p all max)…and RT is not even enabled (still grayed out), checked both in Wayland and X11. I think for a 7800XT I should be getting much better as long as RT or Path Tracing is not running.
EDIT: Seems this happens only with AW2. Cyberpunk and Starfield seem to have similar performance as before. So there’s something going on with AW2 in Nobara.
It…took some adapting on my case. Quite a few bits and bobs don’t quite work the way I intended at boot…but it’s starting to settle after a week of fiddling with it.
This is understandable, and honestly xwayland is great, even with fractional scaling now, at the very least on KDE. I think simply relying on xwayland is a very viable solution now for a lot of apps. and it helps work around a lot of issues so that’s always a major plus
Think so, I actually had a different perspective Games that I run under native x11 stutter to the point where I don’t enjoy playing it anymore (rocket league in my example) but under xwayland the game runs without any issues/stutters
Everything I’ve tried works better under Wayland than it did under X :3 Battlefield V, for example (why I play that… who knows :-\ ) has always taken a bunch of struggling with Wine/Proton versions and settings to get it to run at all, and even then it was a crashy glitchy mess. I decided to try it under Wayland just for the hell of it and somehow it’s absolutely flawless now (okay fine, there’s some kinda mouse focus bug I’ve been working around but still). Sooo now I just use Sway all’ the time. It’s great. I made a whole thread just to gush about it. Wayland and xwayland both seem to be doing great! Woo! Cheerness! \ö/ 🥳 et cetera!
It’s not really hacky as far as I know, it’s just the old status quo. On X applications could scale themselves if they have high DPI support, and that’s what KDE is allowing. And it works great. The vast majority of apps I use support high DPI on X, and they work perfectly fine on xwayland.
It is legitimately a great experience using xwayland like this. A lot of apps I use, they look perfectly fine, they perform perfectly fine, and they’re not broken, which is a massive plus.
Of course, this probably does break one or two apps out there. I’m not saying it’s a perfect solution. It’s far from it. But honestly, I think it’s a really good solution. It allows developers the ease and flexibility of developing for X11 if you don’t need Wayland’s features.
Of course, you are still losing out. Having proper touch support is such an amazing feature with Wheland. Don’t get me wrong. I love a lot about Wheland. It’s just a pain in the ass to develop for. It is nowhere near as flexible as X11.
Setting the DPI is only a partial solution and plenty of assets and rendering will be incorrect. It is more crisp, especially for text, than the approach others take of upscaling though. It’s probably the approach I’d prefer personally.
I believe Steam is just showing you games that can run natively on Linux. You have to run Windows games through wine/proton like the Deck does.
I don’t actually have an anything except the Deck running Linux so I can’t help beyond that. I may even be wrong but it’s at least a place to start searching.
I always love seeing someone reach the eureka moment where they realize windows is no longer necessary. There are a few games I had to give up completely, but honestly it’s worth the sacrifice. I’m going on over a year with no windows in my home.
All games in my 300 game library show up with that option enabled. So far everything just ran with minimal tinkering (selecting a specific proton version in game settings)
About performance: I got it running 20 fps on old SBC Rock64 in OpenGL mode and was GPU-bound. Well, Mali-400 is not a gaming GPU and ARM blob drivers don’t even support OGL, only GLES.
On i5-2xxx it runs on about 110-120 fps with 30% of one CPU core load(GPU-bound again) in X11 and ~90 in kwin_wayland.
I didn’t like how you had to pick up weapons from the map in the normal modes when I played on a LAN but instagib mode was hella fun. Fragging three people while bunny-hopping into the flag room and fragging two more on the way out is something you just have to experience.
Xonotic has quite a bit of config options, e.g. it’s possible to spawn with all weapons. But mastering those is a learning curve, compared to the more approachable instagib.
It’s kind of weird how picking up weapons on the map is a thing that kind of died out with arena shooters. I guess you probably didn’t grow up with those kinds of games?
You can check if there is any dependency in the lutris version that you may have to install too. lutris.net/games/spellforce-2-shadow-wars/
You also can run your program using a verboser method since the returned code 0 means the program had run successfully so it’s tricky wiki.winehq.org/Debug_Channels
Ah, this game. I love to pull it out whenever I am feeling bored and dried out by my other games. It’s an amazing and low resource intensive game. So to say, I like to zip across the map at subsonic speeds more than actually playing it haha. But I still get the sniper rifle whilst doing that and practice some sick ferrari headshots.
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