Anything to make gaming easier, especially non-Steam. I’ll list what I know of so far:
Bottles.
Faugus Launcher. UMU-Launcher GUI, which is kinda like Bottles but for proton specifically instead of WINE. It’s early dev and lacks functional GameScope for now, but Bottles I noticed really doesn’t like me using proton so this was an alternative I found.
This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.
MangoHUD of course.
Heroic Games Launcher.
Lutris.
I have Itch.io’s launcher too.
ProtonUp Qt - grab various versions of WINE or proton for all these applications.
Winboat - Trying some experimental fuckery to use Vortex but I’ve not got that far yet, just got Winboat itself set up so far. edit: It worked surprisingly, modded Skyrim Special Edition, see my other comments here.
Steam’s native proton for warframe and steam natively without proton for CS2
Launchers
- Steam
- Lutris
- Heroic Games Launcher
- Prism Launcher - Minecraft launcher
- ES-DE - Frontend for various emulators
- Waydroid - Run Android apps/games
Tools
butt plug when I play chess
Steam and Protontricks and that’s it.
Perhaps I should explore some alternatives, just to make sure my bases are covered, but I can play all I want to play with those tools.
Sorry if that’s not the response you were seeking. Do you not use Steam?
I use ProtonPlus to download updated and manage Proton/Wine variants
Discord
I avoid discord like the plague, but how does it help with gaming?
Batocera has been pretty great for organizing and playing retro emulators on cheap consumer hardware like a raspberry pi, works with my preferred controllers like leverless for fighting and something like this for everything else
what’s the point in having bottles, lutris, faugus, unu gui, and heroic all at the same time? i just use heroic and steam for every game other than minecraft
IMO, the best and quickest way to determine what I actually want to use and to learn rapidly is by using everything I can find and then tossing the redundants.
Faugus is just a GUI front end of umu launcher which is only CLI.
I pirate games and also own a lot of old games on disc so I can’t only use Heroic/Steam.
Depends on the situation, but I’ve had a game work on bottles where it didn’t quite on steam. It’s slightly closer to running a full vm than proton alone is, and can help with dependencies in rare cases.
AntiMicroX for converting gamepad inputs to keyboard inputs. I pretty much only use it for Super Smash Flash 2.
I made extensive use of reWASD for a few games in the past. I’ll miss that program occasionally haha. AntiMicroX is probably the best sort of alternative yeah?
Hard to say, i’ve never used reWASD. There’s another program called Input Remapper that i haven’t used for games but which is supposed to be like AntiMicroX but for keyboard, mouse, and gamepad inputs and outputs going both ways. So i can make my keyboard an Xbox controller, my Wii U controller a keyboard, my mouse a pair of DK Bongos probably, and so on. But i don’t know how to make it work without sudo access (apparently some programs need that and some don’t to mess with inputs) so i don’t like using it.
Steam Input can do all of that plus a nearly infinite amount of other things, and it’s built right into Steam. Even if it’s a non Steam game, you can still launch it through Steam and use Proton and Steam Input.
Is there a good alternative to CheatEngine? Game Conqueror fails to find the correct addresses most of the time and its speedhack almost never works
I looked into it and apparently if you run chat engineer in the same proton instance (?) As the game it’ll work fine. So far game conquerer has worked for me but I miss the speedhacks
I believe there’s something called Pince, that you could use.
- Lutris
- winetricks/protontricks
- Scripts
Most of my games are on GoG.
- MangoHUD
- Heroic Game Launcher
- Ludusavi
- rdmodman
- Bottles
- Proton Plus and ProtonUp Qt
- GPU Screen Recorder
- MangoHUD
- Optiscaler with INT8 FSR4
- LACT
- ProtonGE
Nice, I was just reading about using Optiscaler 's fakenvapi for spoofing DLSS support to inject FSR4 for Expedition 33 on my Radeon card. Extremely useful.
I’ve just done it yesterday for the Expedition 33 as well :D But I’ve used it for other games previously, it works surprisingly well on RDNA2.
rofi-games for launching games since I made it!
Most other things have been suggested already, but I will mention Prism Launcher as my preferred modded Minecraft instance manager. Oh, and vkbasalt was essential for making Kenshi look good but I haven’t used it for any other games.
and vkbasalt was essential for making Kenshi look good
Do you have a preset there?
If that’s the
vkBasalt.conffile, sure, here it is, though I probably stole this from somewhere else online and most of it seems to be commented out:vkBasalt.conf
#effects is a colon separated list of effect to use #e.g.: effects = fxaa:cas #effects will be run in order from left to right #one effect can be run multiple times e.g. smaa:smaa:cas #cas - Contrast Adaptive Sharpening #dls - Denoised Luma Sharpening #fxaa - Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing #smaa - Enhanced Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing #lut - Color LookUp Table effects = cas:clarity:curves:multilut:dls:smaa:fxaa clarity = "/opt/reshade/shaders/Clarity.fx" curves = "/opt/reshade/shaders/Curves.fx" multilut = "/opt/reshade/shaders/MultiLUT.fx" bloom = "/opt/reshade/shaders/Bloom.fx" reshadeTexturePath = "/opt/reshade/textures" reshadeIncludePath = "/opt/reshade/shaders/" depthCapture = off #toggleKey toggles the effects on/off toggleKey = Home #Clarity.fx ClarityBlendIfDark=50 ClarityBlendIfLight=205 ClarityBlendMode=2 ClarityDarkIntensity=0.400000 ClarityLightIntensity=0.000000 ClarityOffset=2.000000 ClarityRadius=3 ClarityStrength=0.600000 ClarityViewBlendIfMask=0 ClarityViewMask=0 #Curves.fx Contrast=0.100000 Formula=4 Mode=0 #MultiLUT fLUT_AmountChroma=0.750000 fLUT_AmountLuma=0.750000 fLUT_LutSelector=1 #casSharpness specifies the amount of sharpning in the CAS shader. #0.0 less sharp, less artefacts, but not off #1.0 maximum sharp more artefacts #Everything in between is possible #negative values sharpen even less, up to -1.0 make a visible difference casSharpness = 0.8 #dlsSharpness specifies the amount of sharpening in the Denoised Luma Sharpening shader. #Increase to sharpen details within the image. #0.0 less sharp, less artefacts, but not off #1.0 maximum sharp more artefacts dlsSharpness = 1.0 #dlsDenoise specifies the amount of denoising in the Denoised Luma Sharpening shader. #Increase to limit how intensely film grain within the image gets sharpened. #0.0 min #1.0 max dlsDenoise = 0.17 #fxaaQualitySubpix can effect sharpness. #1.00 - upper limit (softer) #0.75 - default amount of filtering #0.50 - lower limit (sharper, less sub-pixel aliasing removal) #0.25 - almost off #0.00 - completely off fxaaQualitySubpix = 0.75 #fxaaQualityEdgeThreshold is the minimum amount of local contrast required to apply algorithm. #0.333 - too little (faster) #0.250 - low quality #0.166 - default #0.125 - high quality #0.063 - overkill (slower) #fxaaQualityEdgeThreshold = 0.125 #fxaaQualityEdgeThresholdMin trims the algorithm from processing darks. #0.0833 - upper limit (default, the start of visible unfiltered edges) #0.0625 - high quality (faster) #0.0312 - visible limit (slower) #Special notes: due to the current implementation you #Likely want to set this to zero. #As colors that are mostly not-green #will appear very dark in the green channel! #Tune by looking at mostly non-green content, #then start at zero and increase until aliasing is a problem. #fxaaQualityEdgeThresholdMin = 0.0312 #smaaEdgeDetection changes the edge detection shader #luma - default #color - might catch more edges, but is more expensive #smaaEdgeDetection = luma #smaaThreshold specifies the threshold or sensitivity to edges #Lowering this value you will be able to detect more edges at the expense of performance. #Range: [0, 0.5] #0.1 is a reasonable value, and allows to catch most visible edges. #0.05 is a rather overkill value, that allows to catch 'em all. #smaaThreshold = 0.1 #smaaMaxSearchSteps specifies the maximum steps performed in the horizontal/vertical pattern searches #Range: [0, 112] #4 - low #8 - medium #16 - high #32 - ultra #smaaMaxSearchSteps = 32 #smaaMaxSearchStepsDiag specifies the maximum steps performed in the diagonal pattern searches #Range: [0, 20] #0 - low, medium #8 - high #16 - ultra #smaaMaxSearchStepsDiag = 16 #smaaCornerRounding specifies how much sharp corners will be rounded #Range: [0, 100] #25 is a reasonable value #smaaCornerRounding = 25Thanks!
Oh, nice! And there’s even a nixpg!
Thanks to the community 🙏
Heroic game launcher on both PC and steamdeck.
Also I use https://github.com/korcankaraokcu/Pince (PINCE is not Cheat Engine) for cheats.
Thanks for the PINCE link!
