The open source game manager Lutris had another sweet update recently

For Gog users, Lutris is now the "Gog Galaxy" client for Linux, just click install, for a Windows or Linux native game, and play. Lutris scripts system are very powerful to do more than just install a game: you can even install patch, write config file, download and install third party components, activate DXVK or override DLL... A must to have for Linux gamers.


Last edited by legluondunet on 25 March 2019 at 10:18 am UTC

Man they are really doing a great job over at Lutris! Can't really thank them enough.

Quoting: legluondunetFor Gog users, Lutris is now the "Gog Galaxy" client for Linux, just click install, for a Windows or Linux native game, and play. Lutris scripts system are very powerful to do more than just install a game: you can even install patch, write config file, download and install third party components, activate DXVK or override DLL... A must to have for Linux gamers.

i Like the Idea of it, but if i Import one of my GoG-Games, nothing happens...or am i missing something? ^^
For the rest of Lutris, you are absolutely right, it really set a new level of convenience to using wine.
Installed WoW again for the free Weekend - and it now really is less of a hazzle than on windows, as you don't have to go to the website anymore to download the client xD


Last edited by Termy on 25 March 2019 at 10:56 am UTC

I tried to use Lutris a couple of times (Fallout 3, StarCraft II) in one case game doesn't start at all (turns out it's easier to setup Proton for Fallout 3) and in another there text rendering issues with Battle.net

Well, I see that developers and community done tremendous work. At least, in SC2 case Lutris installation script indeed produce better results than me, when I trying to setup wine prefix for SC2 manually. But, I have to say, that from regular gamer point of view, Lutris praise is not always justified. At least, not in case of some games, that have broken installation scripts (I tried Fallout 3 installation script on three or four different devices with different Ubuntu/Mesa/GPU, outcome is always the same - game doesn't work, so I conclude at least back then installation script was clearly broken).

Also, why League of Legends banner is even on main page of lutris.net if it's "BROKEN ON OLD VERSIONS OF UBUNTU, LINUX MINT AND DEBIAN!" (is 18.04 or 18.10 is old? Or 16.04 is old, but 18.04 is not? How to find out?) and "CURRENTLY BROKEN ON UBUNTU, LINUX MINT AND DEBIAN! May work with Arch-based distributions."

Also, I playing Prey on Proton right now, and find that eventually game starting to crash, corrupt save files and stuff. Somehow, disabling esync OR increasing DefaultLimitNOFILE doesn't help - for some reason, only doing both (second advice here help me get rid of crashes and corrupted save files.

Let's visit Prey page: https://lutris.net/games/prey-2017/

As we can see, there is four installation scripts and no workarounds for crashes. I'm afraid there is many games left in such semi-working state in Lutris database.

Quoting: GuestNice, but the huge right panel thing is redundant and ugly :/

I think there is an option to hide/unhide it.

I really don't understand how all this GoG stuff on Lutris even works. Everything I already had installed is just seen by Lutris as a regular Linux game with no real connection to GoG (even though they all get put in a "GoG Games" folder). Is it supposed to separate them out the way it does with Steam games?

So in any case, I figured let's try uninstalling a game and re-installing it to see if that works. I picked Eschalon: Book I since it's a pretty quick download. It says it's available, so I hit the install button, only to get an error message saying that no installer exists. So I guess I have to install manually anyway? I have no idea, all it gives me is the dialogue for adding a generic already-installed Linux game. So...maybe? I do know that now there's a grayed-out entry for it in the area that should only be installed games and I don't know how to remove it (Does "remove from library" remove it altogether? It's unclear.).

Maybe it's wiser I don't bother with that at all. It seems intimidating and easily broken to me.

I have not figured out how GOG is integrated at all. Do I still have to go to the webpage to install anything? I installed GOG Galaxy, but that didn't seem to really work, so maybe that's just a lost cause. From reading about 0.5 before I got it, I thought I would point lutris to my GOG library somehow, so I could install anything there through the client, but I guess that's not it.

Honestly because of GoL I've learned of both Lutris and Gamehub, and have tried both several times -- allowing for updates and such. And to be honest, both of them struggle pretty hard compared to say, Playnite on windows.

Lutris I found to be very confusing to set up, way too much abstraction in the interface -- I just love "simple" interfaces that I don't understand (or not). I never got this working on my previous version of Mint, with dependency issues from the built version and...dependency issues from trying to compile it myself. On the latest mint it started without issue, but then I ran into issues importing large libraries -- which weren't issues at all, apparently, you just had to "know" to wait a longish time. When it announced GoG support I was super interested, until I realized it had to have gog-specific installers written which was not obvious -- I was just confused about why the option wasn't appearing for some of the games in my library. I don't mind contributing to projects, but I was frustrated enough with it that I honestly just walked away.

Gamehub I had similar but different issues with. It imported my steam and humble games fine, but I had to use GDB to debug an issue that was causing the GOG import to segfault the client -- I'm going to submit the github issue, I swear (this was only yesterday!). That client was nearly unusable for me under a large library due to UI lag issues -- I assume that was related to my very large library (this might've been fixable with desktop/composite tweaks I suspect, though really those are work-arounds). I was unable to get Gamehub to recognize my installed Steam games, and my attempt at installing a GOG game with the client didn't go well either.

They're both good projects that I'll probably try again eventually, right now I personally wouldn't recommend them to non-tinkerers / people not interested in actively contributing to the projects via reports or direct contributions. I'm sure small libraries of probably-more-popular games might even work perfectly out of the box?

* For large library context, between Steam+GOG+Origin (only) my libraries add up to ~1600 give or take.

Quoting: ArnvidrI have not figured out how GOG is integrated at all. Do I still have to go to the webpage to install anything? I installed GOG Galaxy, but that didn't seem to really work, so maybe that's just a lost cause. From reading about 0.5 before I got it, I thought I would point lutris to my GOG library somehow, so I could install anything there through the client, but I guess that's not it.

I also found it confusing, but did eventually figure it out (it's not obvious...). Basically you have to:

"+" Sign in the title bar > Import Games -> GOG Icon > Sign In > WAIT (It's hitting gog to build the game list, silently) > Check which games to import in the same window, this does NOT install them, it makes them available to install. > Import them. Now, pick a game in the main window and select to install it. If a GOG installer script is available, a install from GOG option will appear in the install window. If it doesn't, then no gog installer is available and you'll have to do the needful manually.

^ I think, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Update: v0.5.1.2 was also pushed out, to fix some issues with "custom Proton detection preventing Wine games from running".

I use it to mostly play Blizzard games through wine and it works well.

The installers for games work but need improvement. I've tried to update the scripts myself but I've found them not intuitive. This is concerning considering I've been coding for 25 years.

The interface is also not intuitive and it took me a while to figure out how to get anything working.

With that said, I still gladly contribute to Lutris monthly. It is so much easier to get a game installed and working than if you tried to get it working on your own.

Wait, it can activate my discrete GPU? Ooo, I need to try launching KotoR on the laptop this way!

EDIT: Well, I didn't do much of a real test, but KotoR *felt* smoother and a tad prettier. Also, my laptop fans were not as loud. Yay!


Last edited by 14 on 27 March 2019 at 5:43 am UTC

I couldn't figure out how to run Neverwinter Nights on Lutris :(. I just don't get the options and the whole interface although it supposes to be a whole lot better than before. It's still unfriendly to me. In the end, I tend to avoid GOD games if they have no Linux support because I just don't know how to play them. On Steam it's easy and no brainer. I don't have time or patience to figure it out so Steam with Proton is the king.

You are talking about the old or remake NWN version? GOG version?