Comment on Ogu and the Secret Forest via Epic Games - keeps freezing
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agoUnfortunately I already did, wrote that in my post. If this is all because it comes via the epic store I could probably stop trying I guess, so I am still hoping someone got it running and has any insights. Might be I am doing something different wrong, no idea what.
morgan_423@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Never mind, I got it running!
So, I realized that I hadn’t tried it in native Desktop mode, and it can be important, it works a little differently to Gaming mode in the background. And that was it.
Go to Desktop Mode (native Desktop mode using the power menu option, not Nested Desktop)
Right click Steam icon on the taskbar > Library
Find Heroic Games launcher on your library list and run it
Just launch the game in Heroic like you normally do. My launcher knew to use a recent version of GE Proton automatically, I didn’t have to tell it.
Worked like a charm.
Super cute game btw lol
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
So, wait… You are launching Heroic launcher from inside Steam and then you launch this game from the Heroic launcher inside Steam? Wow, surprised that even works. Will try when I have the time.
morgan_423@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, but crucially, in Desktop mode, not Gaming mode. It didn’t work when I tried it from Gaming mode!
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Oh what, good you said it again, I missed that detail. Thanks!
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
When Heroic adds a game to Steam, it’s actually telling Steam to run heroic with a game://gameid argument. So, any such game is already running under the “heroic environment”. Running the Steam entry for the game shouldn’t be much different from running Heroic and then the game.
I think the thing you really needed was to just give the game one good run in Desktop mode. A lot of times, they use their first (successful) run to install various runtimes, and those installers need to make pop up windows (which Game Mode is not very good at). Running Heroic in Desktop mode to install the game, and doing your first run in Desktop mode is usually enough, and you can run the game just fine in Game mode after that.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Yeah I’ve found as well that it’s good practice to first launch games in desktop mode with heroic. Like all of them. Then you can run from gaming mode after.