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TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

That, my friends, is also how you play games from the epic store. And how to bypass steam as well.

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Doesn’t work with every game, though. Some have DRM that depends on the launcher and/or authentication.

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- TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Obviously not every game. Multiplay games won’t work with it. And yes anything that inherently depends on the launcher. The vast majority of games it does work though.
  
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  - 9bananas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Multiplay games won’t work with it
    
    that’s not actually a guarantee: BG3 has multiplayer and works just fine without the launcher. as do plenty of others.
    
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    swab148@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    –skip-launcher in the launch options on Steam, for anyone who doesn’t know already
    
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- mx_smith@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Also when running and playing games on Linux I find that starting directly from the exe can cause compatability issues.
  
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