Just got Ogu and the Secret Forest free via the epic games giveaway. And while it is rated gold on proton and verified for Steam Deck I cannot get it to run properly.

Installed it va Heroic launcher, I can start it but as soon as I start a game it keeps freezing on the loading screen. Left it running for a while, nothing happens. I use Proton experimental for that. But switching Proton didn’t help. I switched to older ones mentioned on ProtonDB, then it just does not start.

Also tried installation with Lutris, doesn’t even start. Anyone who got it running successfully from the Epic games store?

  • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Ah, see, you misheard.

    That wasn’t the free game of the week, it was the FREEZE game of the week.

      • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        For reals though, there aren’t many Proton DB entries for this one, but one Deck user reported they used GE-Proton 9-16. So I’d download that version of GE Proton if you haven’t and give that a go.

        • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          1·
          6 days ago

          Unfortunately I already did, wrote that in my post. If this is all because it comes via the epic store I could probably stop trying I guess, so I am still hoping someone got it running and has any insights. Might be I am doing something different wrong, no idea what.

          • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Never mind, I got it running!

            So, I realized that I hadn’t tried it in native Desktop mode, and it can be important, it works a little differently to Gaming mode in the background. And that was it.

            1. Go to Desktop Mode (native Desktop mode using the power menu option, not Nested Desktop)

            2. Right click Steam icon on the taskbar > Library

            3. Find Heroic Games launcher on your library list and run it

            4. Just launch the game in Heroic like you normally do. My Heroic launcher knew to use a recent version of GE Proton automatically, I didn’t have to tell it.

            5. Worked like a charm.

            Super cute game btw lol

            EDIT: I can’t remember if Heroic is naturally Steam launchable or not. If not, just add it as non-steam game. You might not even have to launch Heroic from steam, I do it for convenience, but if that was part of the magic formula then that’s how you do it.

            • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
              2·
              5 days ago

              When Heroic adds a game to Steam, it’s actually telling Steam to run heroic with a game://gameid argument. So, any such game is already running under the “heroic environment”. Running the Steam entry for the game shouldn’t be much different from running Heroic and then picking the game from Heroic’s list.

              I think the thing you really needed was to just give the game one good run in Desktop mode. A lot of times, games use their first (successful) run to install various runtimes, and those installers need to make pop up windows (which Game Mode is not very good at). Running Heroic in Desktop mode to install the game, and doing your first run in Desktop mode is usually enough, and you can run the game just fine in Game mode after that.

              • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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                5 days ago

                Yeah I’ve found as well that it’s good practice to first launch games in desktop mode with heroic. Like all of them. Then you can run from gaming mode after.

            • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
              3·
              6 days ago

              So, wait… You are launching Heroic launcher from inside Steam and then you launch this game from the Heroic launcher inside Steam? Wow, surprised that even works. Will try when I have the time.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Unfortunately common issue with a lot of Epic store games, many don’t work or have issues when compared to the steam version. The protonDB reports are all 6months+ in age as well, so it’s possible something has changed with the game in that time. Found this discussion on reddit, where it sounds like it runs for most people but with terrible performance.

    I know some Epic games take a really long time at first load. The Epic version of gloomhaven could take 1-2 hours to load the first time if I recall right, but after that first really long load time it would work fine. I’m assuming it’s compiling shaders or something the first time.

    • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      6 days ago

      Doesn’t bode well then, but the other person replying seems to have it running and I’ll try that soon.