wine VS lutris

It's a bit annoying to setup initially. Caffe is the default runner for Bottles and plays more games out of the box than any other runner I've tested. However I hate the Bottles interface so I downloaded the Caffe runner separately.

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/wine/releases/tag/caffe-7.20

Then you can drop that into the default folder in Lutris and choose it as the runner. Lutris also integrates with Steam so it'll see your entire steam library and you can choose a different wine runner and wine options on a per-game basis.

Lutris: use this https://imgur.com/34Zw0yz, enable/disable Esync Fsync FSR BattleEye Anti-cheat Easy Anti-cheat, download Caffe from https://github.com/bottlesdevs/wine/releases/download/caffe-7.18/caffe-7.18-x86_64.tar.xz and use it, delete dxvk cache.

caffe Basically just another runner that uses wine and proton but it's mostly only available on bottles which makes a wine environment and you can play games and run windows apps kinda like lutris.

For convenience, here's the download link: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/wine/releases/tag/caffe-7.19

you need the caffe 7.18 here place this in the lutris runners/wine/ folder and set overwatch to it

0 I'm running an AMD Ryzen 2700x, 32 GB of RAM at 2866 MHz, and an AMD RX 6600 XT. Overwatch 2 is being loaded through Bottles, using caffe-7.18 as the wine build.

Changed it from Lutris 7-2-2 to >>>>> caffe-7.18 which I downloaded here: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/wine/releases/tag/caffe-7.18 and EXTRACTED the contents into this directory : ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/ and then restarted Lutris and opened up Overwatch 2 again. The game stopped crashing after this. I'm not sure if I could have just used protonup-qt to do this, but I do know that other versions of wine are available in that app to do this an easier way.

As most of you know OW2 has an inevitable "freeze" that occurs after a few mintues of playing it - thus people have been using Caffe 7.18 as a temporary solution.

Credit to u/Feyko for this one: you'll want to switch the "runner" Lutris uses with https://github.com/bottlesdevs/wine/releases/download/caffe-7.18/caffe-7.18-x86_64.tar.xz Extract the archive as it's own folder to "home/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/wine" next to the others (if you cant see this folder, enable hidden files/folders with CTRL+H. Create the folders if they don't already exist. ) Credit to u/Existing_Mango7894 for the above Restart Lutris (close/open)

You can get Lutris: It's an open source launcher that you login into with GOG account and it will download the games and wrap them with Wine, similar to Steam.

https://lutris.net/

For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you could try installing it with a script or tutorial in Lutris or Bottles.

Can I suggest you head over to the lutris.net site and follow the link the lutris discord - with what you are describing, it would take me 20 minutes to get the base battle.net working so you can see what is causing your issue or 3 days back and forwards here. As a hint, your wine version has known issues, and unless you manually installed the lutris 0.5.14 from the git page in Mint, or are running flatpak, you have other issues related to that

Hmmm I remember there was some confusion in Lutris around this, like https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues/4237 , and I had to do some workaround. But I can't check what exactly right now...

As a data point, you can run a fair number of Windows games under Proton by using Lutris instead of Steam:

* https://lutris.net

* https://github.com/lutris/lutris

It's an OSS game launcher that takes the place of Steam, and you can set things up to run locally so you don't even need an account on their system (lutris.net).

Lutris

[Resources] * Ventoy (for EZ bootable USB sticks) ==> https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html * How to use Ventoy ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K64sT0pQc-0 * Rufus (alternative bootable USB stick creator in Windows) ==> https://rufus.ie/en/ * MD5 & SHA Checksum Utility (for validating your ISO downloads) ==> https://download.cnet.com/md5-sha-checksum-utility/3000-2092_4-10911445.html * Steam will be in the repositories (repos) and Proton is apart of Steam * www.protondb.com (lookup Steam game info... see how well it works or if it is in a FUBAR state on Linux) * WINE will be in the repos and can be acquired via WINE HQ. I recommend using the repos, but WINE HQ if you need it ( https://www.winehq.org/ ) * Lutris is a front-end to WINE which makes installing and running non-Steam games easy. It can be found in the repos ( https://lutris.net/ ) * How-To videos for setting up various distros for gaming ( https://www.youtube.com/@IntelligentGaming2020/videos ). I have no affiliation with this channel. He is a Linux user/gamer sharing info. Search his channel for your distro to find the specific how-to videos. * r/linux4noobs (a newbie focused Linux subreddit) * most if not all of the distros will have their own subreddits (ex: r/pop_OS, r/linuxmint, r/fedora, r/manjaro, r/EndeavourOS)

ProtonDB is a community list of Steam games rating their playability. Heroic launcher runs GOG and Epic games. Lutris and Bottles can be used to run everything else.