Ogu and the Secret Forest via Epic Games - keeps freezing

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

Just got Ogu and the Secret Forest free via the epic games giveaway. And while it is rated gold on proton and verified for Steam Deck I cannot get it to run properly.

Installed it va Heroic launcher, I can start it but as soon as I start a game it keeps freezing on the loading screen. Left it running for a while, nothing happens. I use Proton experimental for that. But switching Proton didn’t help. I switched to older ones mentioned on ProtonDB, then it just does not start.

Also tried installation with Lutris, doesn’t even start. Anyone who got it running successfully from the Epic games store?

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morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Ah, see, you misheard.

That wasn’t the free game of the week, it was the FREEZE game of the week.

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- ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh in that case, perfect game experience, 5/7!
  
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  - morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    For reals though, there aren’t many Proton DB entries for this one, but one Deck user reported they used GE-Proton 9-16. So I’d download that version of GE Proton if you haven’t and give that a go.
    
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alerich@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Maybe Proton GE will work

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- ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Tried latest one installed via Heroic as well. I think that one also didn’t even start.
  
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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Unfortunately common issue with a lot of Epic store games, many don’t work or have issues when compared to the steam version. The protonDB reports are all 6months+ in age as well, so it’s possible something has changed with the game in that time. Found this discussion on reddit, where it sounds like it runs for most people but with terrible performance.

I know some Epic games take a really long time at first load. The Epic version of gloomhaven could take 1-2 hours to load the first time if I recall right, but after that first really long load time it would work fine. I’m assuming it’s compiling shaders or something the first time.

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- ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Doesn’t bode well then, but the other person replying seems to have it running and I’ll try that soon.
  
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