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russnes | 6 months ago

No just directly in Steam. You can just add a non steam game to your library and select the .exe file you want, and steam will create a c drive environment for each non steam game you add.

In some cases you might have to change which exe file it runs, if you initially run a setup.exe which creates the real exe file you'd want to launch inside the c drive environment folder

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112233|6 months ago

Wait, can I run non-games like that, too? Launch all kinds of windowed GUI programms from Steam?

nemomarx|6 months ago

Yeah, why not? Steam has non games on it by default - mostly art programs and utilities for whatever reason. When you're adding a non steam game to be run through steam it's just a wrapper and shortcut to it.

Very handy on the steam deck for some programs

jack_pp|6 months ago

So you could run battle.net inside Steam? That would be fun, I've had issues with battle.net on wine / lutris

d3Xt3r|6 months ago

Yes, Battle.net runs flawlessly in Steam, have zero issues playing D2R and D4 this way. In fact D4 ran flawlessly on Linux on Day 1, which came as a bit of a surprise to me.

safety1st|6 months ago

This is exactly what I do, works great. I may have had to try one or two different recent versions of Proton via the drop-down, but it's way less hassle than when I used Lutris.

saghm|6 months ago

I played WoW for several years this way without much issue. The only tweaking I ended up doing manually was to try to figure it out how to get the game to let me enable ray tracing, which I did get working but ended to being too much of a performance hit for my to leave on most of the time anyhow.

busfahrer|6 months ago

This is what I do, it feels weird, but works perfectly and is the least effort solution