I’m currently trying to get Transistor to run.
EndeavourOS, Nvidia gpu, and I have the Windows version that was free on Epic that one time, so ideally I’d like to run it through Heroic.

According to PCGamingWiki, it can be run DRM-free with the -AUTH_LOGIN=unused launch option, so that’s what I’d like to do.

EDIT:
I want to be able to sideload the game files

Looking on ProtonDB, people mainly suggest setting the compability to Windows XP, and it seems to run best with Proton Experimental. One report mentions adding it to Steam to launch it there, but it’s all the same for me:

Quick blackscreen with the game trying to launch, and then it crashes back to desktop.

Did anyone get it to run recently? Any other ideas I might’ve missed?

  • MentalEdgeEnglish
    11•8 months ago

    I’m back.

    I installed the windows version from steam. The game does not run under proton 8.0-5, but does with the current versions of experimental and Proton-GE from the AUR.

    I did not need to set windows version to XP, or do any other kind of extra fiddling. So all you should need is to set the no DRM launch option in heroic to allow the Epic version to run.

    If you haven’t installed that Proton-GE package from the AUR, I suggest doing so. It’s been the only “custom” proton version I’ve needed for ages, it gets updated when a new version comes out and makes itself available for selection in both Steam and Heroic, so it’s a very set and forget way to use the GE versions of Proton.

    • Miss BrainfartsOPEnglish
      2•8 months ago

      Still the same. It tries to launch, I get a short blackscreen, and then it crashes again. I have sideloaded it into Heroic, and the log stops with these two lines:

      INFO: [Frontend]: Refreshing sideload Library

      WARNING: [Backend]: refresh not implemented on Sideload Library Manager

      If I download and install it directly from Epic again, and simply check the box for it to run offline, it works just fine. But that kinda defeats the point, I want to be able to sideload it without having to authenticate myself, which should be possible according to the entry at PCGamingWiki

        • Miss BrainfartsOPEnglish
          2•8 months ago

          I put it into the field for launch options in Heroic first, to which it told me that it’s an environment variable I have to define in the appropriate table below, so I did that.

          • MentalEdgeEnglish
            4•8 months ago

            It is most definitely not an environment variable. The game doesn’t see those.

            They are a Linux thing.

            • Miss BrainfartsOPEnglish
              1•8 months ago

              Doesn’t run either way, so there’s that.

              The Steam version doesn’t seem to need any launch option tweaks to be run directly from the executable, but then again, Steam also sells the native Linux version.

              One more info I found is that the game might crash on startup when it can’t load the correct audio device. But the file that is mentioned, where I’d have to manually select the device, doesn’t exist. So that’s another avenue to explore.

              I’m so confused though. I tried it on Windows too, added the launch option to avoid authentication, but it does not want to launch.

                • Miss BrainfartsOPEnglish
                  1•8 months ago

                  I guess PCGamingWiki lied to me :|

                  Still though, when I download and install it „officially“, I can check the box to run it offline before ever starting it, and it runs just fine.

                  I can also click download but then import my existing files instead, and it also runs.

                  God dang it

                  • @RoseEnglish
                    2•8 months ago

                    The information was added to the wiki by an unregistered user, though most games on Epic at the time were DRM-free. This particular game being DRM-free on every other platform also makes the claim plausible.