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Reason for this meme is that some ubisoft titles are shipped with a broken version of ubisoft connect launcher. Installing these games is only possible by running the installer for the launcher again via protontricks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now, if proton could be used outside if steam...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This used to be possible, but isn't anymore. Source: the author of lutris

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oh nice, didnt know that. Thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

His version works though. I use Lutris for everything that isn't on steam or is a windows program, and it works great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Huh? That's quite interesting.

I've been running a hacked-together script which uses a disembodied copy of Proton 8 (aka. copied to a portable drive, doesn't need to have Steam installed to run) to launch my games from Itch and GoG.

Hmm, just tried to use Proton 9.0-2 and the current experimental in my steamapps (which appears to be version 9.0-202), and it works just fine. Though, I guess Lutris' implementations are quite a bit more advanced than my hacks (no debugging let's goooo).

A very simplified version of my script, for those who might be interested: pastebin.com/kbNNvzAx. Don't forget to uncomment game_exe and set it to your executable - won't work otherwise.

Also, pinging @[email protected] in case of interest.