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I‘ve checked a few of the resources I found here but I seem to be unable to wrap my head around this.

I want to play one specific game purchased from GoG on my Steam Deck. It only has a windows installer. I don’t need a fancy launcher (at the moment). The game has low hardware requirements so should run fine via emulation/proton…

What’s the easiest way to install and add this game to game mode?

Edit: clarification on the launcher. I don’t necessarily need one. If it is the easiest way to get it done I still would consider installing one.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unfamiliar with Battle.net, but the problem sounds like a case of DRM and the solution sounds like the installer tries to normalize launchers and you are able to leverage it.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I think I run guildwars1 off the original installer as well which also just autolaunches properly but I believe that installer has always properly supported launching an installed exe if found

Battlenet works just fine and I play StarCraft through it perfectly but I was totally stumped why following the instructions failed and running it off the installer works.

Neither even shows the installer it just directly runs the client