besides wine, what do you need to run non-steam games? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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From my understanding, at least one other necessary component is dxvk, and that wine is not enough.

If I dont use lutris or some other manager, how can I game on linux? do I have to configure dxvk? do I need soemthing else too? vulkan?

Is there a guide that explains it?

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[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

You can just add the exe to steam and it'll take care of setting everything up for you.

[-] KanariePieter@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

This what I do and it works pretty flawlessly. I've never used Bottles or Lutris since I started adding the games to Steam. It also takes care of controller support.

[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

what if I regret installing the thing and want to remove it? is it easy or would I be having to track files down?

[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Steam puts everything into one folder that you can just delete if you want to.

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