I’m currently trying to get Transistor to run.
EndeavourOS, Nvidia gpu, and I have the Windows version that was free on Epic that one time, so ideally I’d like to run it through Heroic.

According to PCGamingWiki, it can be run DRM-free with the -AUTH_LOGIN=unused launch option, so that’s what I’d like to do.

EDIT:
I want to be able to sideload the game files

Looking on ProtonDB, people mainly suggest setting the compability to Windows XP, and it seems to run best with Proton Experimental. One report mentions adding it to Steam to launch it there, but it’s all the same for me:

Quick blackscreen with the game trying to launch, and then it crashes back to desktop.

Did anyone get it to run recently? Any other ideas I might’ve missed?

  • miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Still the same. It tries to launch, I get a short blackscreen, and then it crashes again. I have sideloaded it into Heroic, and the log stops with these two lines:

    INFO: [Frontend]: Refreshing sideload Library

    WARNING: [Backend]: refresh not implemented on Sideload Library Manager

    If I download and install it directly from Epic again, and simply check the box for it to run offline, it works just fine. But that kinda defeats the point, I want to be able to sideload it without having to authenticate myself, which should be possible according to the entry at PCGamingWiki

      • miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        I put it into the field for launch options in Heroic first, to which it told me that it’s an environment variable I have to define in the appropriate table below, so I did that.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          It is most definitely not an environment variable. The game doesn’t see those.

          They are a Linux thing.

          • miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Doesn’t run either way, so there’s that.

            The Steam version doesn’t seem to need any launch option tweaks to be run directly from the executable, but then again, Steam also sells the native Linux version.

            One more info I found is that the game might crash on startup when it can’t load the correct audio device. But the file that is mentioned, where I’d have to manually select the device, doesn’t exist. So that’s another avenue to explore.

            I’m so confused though. I tried it on Windows too, added the launch option to avoid authentication, but it does not want to launch.

              • miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                I guess PCGamingWiki lied to me :|

                Still though, when I download and install it „officially“, I can check the box to run it offline before ever starting it, and it runs just fine.

                I can also click download but then import my existing files instead, and it also runs.

                God dang it

                • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  8 months ago

                  The information was added to the wiki by an unregistered user, though most games on Epic at the time were DRM-free. This particular game being DRM-free on every other platform also makes the claim plausible.