I’ve just installed Epic Game Launcher on the Deck and had an issue where the starting screen was black. I’ve already find the fix in * this discussion.
Here’s the copy of the post
Thanks to — Lopsided_Elephant_24 • 1 hr. ago • Edited 45 min. ago
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I found something that seems to work. In the 3rd party launcher in Steam used for the Epic game launcher, go to Properties->Shortcut->Target, and change the text to:
“{The path to the epic game launcher}/EpicGamesLauncher.exe” -opengl
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From Ayinde6 — LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS FOR YOU
It’s generally much better to use HeroicGamesLauncher IMO
I spent hours trying to get Epic to work with Lutris and it was a terrible pain. I wish I had tried Heroic months ago lol.
I abandoned lutris for Bottles a while ago, it was a good decision.
I have one bottle for Battle.net and another for EA.
Heroic for GOG.
This is the way to go. Easiest setup ever.
Bottles
This is The Way
I didn’t know of this one. I’ll consider installing it in the future. Still, having EG launcher comes in handy when i have to quickly add some new free game, so is still fine 💁♂️.
Heroic does all of that. You login to the store. I claim the free games inside it every week. And shit just works.
Also does gog and amazon. Great software
Good to know. I’ll definitely check that.
Yes but I experienced periodical logouts from Epic sadly
When was the last time you tried heroic? I was getting pretty frequent log outs about a year ago, but it was fixed in an update and has been pretty flawless for me for a few months now
A month or two ago. I saw notes in changelog that supposedly it should be fixed, but it kept happening. I might revisit in the future
Try hitting up their discord. They’ve been super responsive and unbelievably patient the couple times I had an issue
I spent hours trying to get Epic to work before saying “fuck it” and pirated the games. You know we’re in the worst timeline when pirating is infinitely easier than installing games you’ve bought.
Piracy is an issue of service, not price - Gabe Newell
Well, EG launcher kinda sucks on any device in my experience. Honestly, the only reason i’ve installed it is to have the free games on the Deck. I’ve used this guide and the fix in the post.
Why not Heroic Games Launcher?
not worth the effort when Heroic does the job better imo
unless there’s a niche scenario in which Heroic won’t work
You need heroic or lutris
Nah, don’t support companies that are actively and openly hostile to Linux
I don’t. My entire Epic library is freebies, and it’s well over 200 games at this point. I can’t imagine them getting telemetry data that says the host OS is Linux is the kind of “support” that turns them away from reconsidering Linux.
I’m just a guy on the Internet, do whatever. 🤷♂️ Just seems silly spending time fighting to use software from a company that actively campaigns against linux and calls it nonviable. I can understand corporate indifference, but epic is different. And unfortunately, wine/proton identify host os as windows 7.
Didn’t they just win a lawsuit against google for “noncompetitive and monopolistic practices”?
Sure. I wasn’t being combative, just pointing out that there are cases that don’t give them much support. And if Proton reports as Win 7 (a discontinued OS), then it becomes a wash, since the alternative would have been Windows 10/11 anyway.
If they want to miss out on the market share of Steam Deck users, that’s their poor business choice to make.
Thanks for sharing!