Linux Gaming Guide - Heroic Games Launcher & Lutris (Epic, GOG, Battle.net, & more)

[Music] hey what's up Gamers today I'll be showing step by step how to install and run several game stores on Linux including epic games goog Battlenet and more this is a follow-up to a previous video I made that shows how to install Linux and get its setup for gaming on Steam I also made another video that explains the differences between some of the popular Linux dros and gave my personal suggestions on which one to choose so if you're new to Linux then I recommend watching those two videos first the links are in the video description but before we begin today's guide let's first have a quick word from our sponsor if you're looking for a premium cloud gaming experience at an affordable price then check out maximum settings they offer bare metal systems that pack the latest hardware for maximum performance perance set up to 4K resolution and 120 FPS these systems are also loaded with Linux Mint so if you've used the steam deck then you should feel right at home here Linux gaming has come a long way and is finally ready for the main stream so head on over to maximum settings and try it out the link is in the video description also all of the software I'll be showing today is already pre-installed on their systems all you need to do is log into your account for the game stores you want and download your games so let's begin by comparing the applications I'll be showing today and explain the differences between them the first application is called heroic games launcher and it's a free and open-source launcher for epic goog and Amazon Prime games all your games will appear here in the library after you log into your account for these stores in other words heroic is a standalone application that's meant to serve as placement for these game stores and it provides its own unique interface the other application I'll be showing today is lutrus and this one takes a different approach instead of being a standalone application that interfaces with your game libraries lutrus allows you to install the original Windows version of these game stores and it isn't just limited to Epic and geog you can also install other stores including Blizzard's Battlenet EA Origin Ubisoft connect and more lutrus uses wine under the hood which allows you to install Windows applications directly to your Linux system and it can also integrate native Linux apps including all of your favorite emulators now I'd also like to mention another application called bottles which is similar to lutrus but instead of installing applications directly to your system with wine bottles provides a Sandbox environment for wine that's separate from your system this approach has some pros and cons when compared to lutrus but to be honest I don't prefer one over the other both are good choices but one difference where bottles has an edge is that it also supports non-gaming applications such as do for music production Fusion 360 for CAD modeling and other windows-based productivity applications but when it comes to gaming applications lutrus seems to be the more popular choice so that's why I'll be skipping bottles in today's video but perhaps I'll cover it in a future video so if you'd like to see a guide on bottles then drop a comment and let me know all right so now let's start the guide and show how to install heroic games launcher and again I'm using kubuntu just like I did in my previous video but the steps should be exactly the same for other Ubuntu based dros and I'll also point out how to install these apps on Arch and fedora dros as well so let's first search for Heroic games launcher in our browser and then go to its GitHub page scroll down to the installation section now although you could install heroic using flat pack or an app image I think it's best to install directly to the system so let's click on Debian and dotu derivatives according to the instructions all we need to do is download the Deb file and install it so let's click on latest release and download download it after it's done all you need to do is go to your download directory doubleclick the file and install it make sure you doubleclick it from your dr's file manager not from the browser this should work for the majority of disos but certain dros might have something weird going on with their package manager so if this method doesn't work for you then you can install it from the command line to do this open a terminal in the folder where you downloaded the file file then run this command here but make sure to replace the name of the file with the exact name of the file that you downloaded now if you're using Fedora then there's two methods to install heroic the first way is by using the coper repo simply enter these two commands here to install it the second method is very similar to the method I just showed for Ubuntu but instead of downloading the Deb file you'll download the RPM file now if you're using an Arch based drro all you need to do is install this package from the Aur this can be done with one of these commands now let's run the app so I'll go to the start menu and enter heroic and click on it now the first thing you'll need to do is log into your account to do this click log in now select which store you want to log into I'll be logging into my epic games account after doing this all your games associated with that account should now be displayed in your library now let's install a game so I'll go ahead and install shadow of the Tomb Raider as an example click the download icon and then confirm where you want to install the game the default path is fine and you can ignore this warning message if you wanted to install it somewhere else such as a secondary drive then this is where you would specify that location and then click install and the game will begin downloading now that the game is done installing we're almost ready to run it but let's first go to the wine manager tab wine is what allows Windows games to run on Linux so it's recommended to keep this up to date fortunately heroic makes that easy all you need to do is download wine G latest and heroic will automatically keep wine up to date when that's done installing go back to your library and launch your game you'll see this message pop up select yes to confirm that you want this game to use the latest wine version it might take a minute to start the first time also it turns out this game has a small bug with Nvidia gpus that will give a warning about no display adapter installed but you can just click okay and ignore this the game will still work normally now I'll go ahead and modify some of the settings before launching the game and as you can see the game launched without any issues and The Benchmark ran very smooth as well now the vast majority of games should run great without any issues but if you happen to run into problems with a specific game then you can likely fix it by using a different version of wine simply download an older version here then you can force specific games to use this older version of wine instead also at the top of the wine manager you'll notice two other options including wine G LOL and proton G the LOL version is specifically meant for League of Legends so so if you still play league then you'll need to use this version for it now proton G is specifically designed to run games in Steam but certain games outside of steam may work better with this variant so if all else fails try this instead now to force a game to use a specific wine version simply go into the game settings here then click the drop down menu and you can select which wine version you want that game to use while we're here let's look at some other settings as well if you scroll down you'll see some useful features such as the FSR hack and an option to limit the FPS in that game now let's scroll back up and click on the other tab for some more useful options in my previous video I showed how to install mango hood and game mode so if you wanted to activate those this is where you do that there's also an option here for forcing the game to use your dedicated GPU which might be useful on systems that have both an integrated and dedicated GPU now everything I just went over also applies to games in your goog Library simply log into your goog account and install your games like I just showed so now let's move on to the next app which is lutrus let's head over to the official website and go to the download section you'll notice at the top here it says make sure to install wine and drivers yet for some reason they don't include the instructions here but you can find the instructions on their documentation on GitHub I put the link to this page in the video description to make it easy for you to copy and paste these commands so if you're using an Ubuntu based drro then you'll need to copy and paste this line here to install the dependencies and for Arch dros you'll need to make sure the multi-b repo is enabled first and then upgrade your system with this command then then enter the following command to install the dependencies and for Fedora distros you simply need to enter this command here now let's head back to the download section and scroll down here you'll find the instructions for a wide range of dros for example if you're running popos then you can simply install lutrus from the pop shop or you can follow the steps I'm about to do since popos is based on Ubuntu if we scroll down we'll also find the instructions for Fedora and Arch and several more dros as well but for Ubuntu based dros we'll need to install it in the same way we installed heroic so click this link to go to their GitHub page and then download the Deb file here when it's done downloading simply double click it in the file manager and install the application now I'll search for lutrus in the start menu and run it the first time running you might see a few pack packages getting updated here in the bottom left so let's wait for that to finish and once it's done close the application and reopen it now you'll see here on the left side there are several stores that you can install right away including goog epic EA Ubisoft and you can also link your Steam account here as well if you prefer to have everything in one place let's first do epic games as an example so I'll click this button here to connect click okay then click install next you can specify the directory where you want epic installed but the default directory is fine then click continue after about a minute or so you'll see this screen click install to begin the installation this will take several minutes to finish you'll notice that it has quite a few dependencies to install like I mentioned earlier lutrus installs the windows version of all these apps and runs them in wine so so you actually don't need lutrus to run any of these apps but it would be a lot more timeconsuming to do it without lutrus what lutrus is actually doing is running a script that installs a long list of dependencies required to run that particular Windows application so every store that you see here on the site is actually just a different script and it turns out you can find additional scripts on lrc's website for many other applications in addition to the apps that are already included this is what I'll be doing in a minute for the blizzard app but now that the installation for epic is complete we can Now launch it it'll take a minute to launch for the first time and you'll also need to install some updates but once that's done you'll see this familiar screen here where you'll log into your account just like you would on Windows but I noticed there's currently a bug that prevents you from logging in with your Google account so you'll need to log into your account the standard way here instead if your Google account is what you normally use then you'll need to log into your epic account in your browser and change your password which should allow you to log into epic the standard way or you could simply use heroic games launcher or bottles instead I'm sure this bug will be fixed at some point but I still thought I should point it out but anyway after logging into your account you can install and run your games just like wooden windows so I'm going to skip that and move on to the next game store let's now try Starcraft 2 which is part of Blizzard's Battlenet but you'll notice Battlenet isn't listed here so we'll need to download the script from lrc's website I'll search for lutrus Starcraft 2 and go to the first result click the install button here and then check this box to always allow your browser to open lutrus links next you'll see this box pop up click install then confirm then click install again and continue to begin the installation this will take several minutes then you'll see this familiar box pop up confirm your language and continue on with the installation as normal once it's finished log into your account and now you can install your blizzard games just like you would on windows so I'll go ahead and begin the Starcraft 2 installation and now that it's finished I'll launch the game and as you can see it's running just as we expected it to so I'll just go ahead and exit now and also exit battl net you might notice this installation window from lutrus is still open that's because lutrus was waiting for you to exit battl net in order to finalize the installation so just give it a minute After exiting battl net and it will close on its own and if you still see this box here you can just close it also keep in mind there's a huge number of scripts you can find on lutrus website simply go to the game section and search through them you can also find scripts to install just about any emulator you can think of but I won't be getting into detail on those now like I mentioned earlier you can also link your Steam account to lutrus if you prefer to have everything in one place but in order to do this you need to make sure that your steam profile is set to public to verify this go to the settings in Steam then go to privacy settings and make sure my profile and game details are both set to public now you should be able to sync your steam account in lutrus and finally let's take a quick look at some of the settings in lutrus Click the tab in the top right of the screen and go to preferences now if we go to the runners tab you'll see a long list of various applications and emul let's scroll down to wine and click this button here's where you can set your default wine version among other settings as well now if we go to the updates tab you'll notice that w g is set to be automatically updated but you can switch that to self-maintained if you prefer but generally speaking you shouldn't need to change any of these settings the default wine version should be fine and lastly the storage tab is where you can set the default location to install your games to all right so that wraps up today's guide hopefully now you should be able to run all of your favorite game stores in Linux also like I mentioned in a previous video there are applications available on Linux that allow you to overclock your GPU and set custom fan curves so if you'd like to see another video covering these tools then drop a comment and let me know and if you have any questions then feel free to ask as well also if you enjoyed this video then be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already as always thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next [Music] one

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Published: Mon Apr 08 2024