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How to play games outside steam? (lemdro.id)
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I'm looking for a guide on how to install and play games from that girl we know using heroic launcher.

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They work but are a pain to get going. They use a C++ third party library that requires a lot of dependencies. I once managed to create a prefix with the required shit installed. But the settings were a crapshot, some installers would work but some others would require changes or replacements to libraries. Then moving and managing the installation was too much manual labor. It was annoying so I dropped the project.

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