I’ve just installed Epic Game Launcher on the Deck and had an issue where the starting screen was black. I’ve already find the fix in * this discussion.

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Thanks to — Lopsided_Elephant_24 • 1 hr. ago • Edited 45 min. ago

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I found something that seems to work. In the 3rd party launcher in Steam used for the Epic game launcher, go to Properties->Shortcut->Target, and change the text to:

“{The path to the epic game launcher}/EpicGamesLauncher.exe” -opengl

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From Ayinde6 — LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS FOR YOU

  • @entropicdrift
    59•7 months ago

    It’s generally much better to use HeroicGamesLauncher IMO

    • sharpiemarker
      8•7 months ago

      I spent hours trying to get Epic to work with Lutris and it was a terrible pain. I wish I had tried Heroic months ago lol.

    • ekZeppOPEnglish
      4•7 months ago

      I didn’t know of this one. I’ll consider installing it in the future. Still, having EG launcher comes in handy when i have to quickly add some new free game, so is still fine 💁‍♂️.

      • @code@lemmy.zip
        9•7 months ago

        Heroic does all of that. You login to the store. I claim the free games inside it every week. And shit just works.

        Also does gog and amazon. Great software

        • ekZeppOPEnglish
          4•7 months ago

          Good to know. I’ll definitely check that.

      • @0ops@lemm.ee
        3•6 months ago

        When was the last time you tried heroic? I was getting pretty frequent log outs about a year ago, but it was fixed in an update and has been pretty flawless for me for a few months now

        • @azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1•6 months ago

          A month or two ago. I saw notes in changelog that supposedly it should be fixed, but it kept happening. I might revisit in the future

          • @0ops@lemm.ee
            3•6 months ago

            Try hitting up their discord. They’ve been super responsive and unbelievably patient the couple times I had an issue