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With the use of Heroic game launcher, I’m wondering if you all preferred to play your GOG version of games over the Steam version. I can go either way but sometimes I pause and think, having two copies of the same game, one on steam and one on GOG, which one would give me a better gaming experience. For example, I may choose the GOG version because I don’t have to deal with pre-shader work being downloaded every so often. I can just into my games. Yet, Steam achievements and seeing the game’s metadata is always life: seeing the game info, store page, community stuff about the game, and more all there. So what do you chose? GOG game or the Steam game.

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[–] raptir@lemdro.id 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to be a huge fan of GOG with the whole DRM free thing. But their poor Linux support just drove me to Steam. They promised a Linux version of their launcher for years. The request has 14,000 up votes. But they still won't create a Linux version. I honestly don't particularly care about the launcher, it's just the fact that Linux is not a priority for them.

Combining that with the lack of GeForce Now support I've basically gone to only using them for older classic games.

[–] ducking_donuts@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Heroic is a pretty good launcher for GOG

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's not that it's hard, I'm just going to give my money to a company that supports Linux.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can turn off preshaders, check the settings

[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

You wouldn’t happen to know where exactly? Steam can be a maze.

[–] Escew@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love steams game metadata. I wish I could enable it for non steam games. Regarding shaders - I turned off precaching as it was taking gigabytes of space that I needed. I haven’t noticed a difference in game load time compared to my friends who still have it enabled.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

It's supposed to prevent stutter or freezes caused shader compilation during gameplay. The effect on load times is minimal.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I doesn't matter to me. But I do have all of my games (steam, gog, epic, etc) and emulators organized into steam with custom art work. Just so everything is in one place.

Steam overlay and controls is turned off though. I could care less about achievements too.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 11 months ago

What made you choose not to care any less about achievements?

[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do you turn off steam overlay and what does that do?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Overlay is the screen that pops up when you press the "home" button on your controller. It's just an extra layer of processing going on for no reason.

You can turn it off in steams setting, and/or in the properties for each game.