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Meaning my game id for it is “2734371931”.

home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2734371931/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GOG Galaxy/ home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/ /pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GOG Galaxy/ What you need to do is explore each one of those folders in there looking for the one where the folder As such there now exists a folder in /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/ containing the environment where we installed GOG Galaxy. When you add a non-steam-game to steam it gets its own pseudo-gameid. home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/ /pfx/drive_c/

#Gog galaxy not starting windows#

With the windows filesystem being emulated starting from the path home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/ / These environments and their configuration are located in Some theory to begin with: Proton works by simulating a independent windows environment for each game that uses it. STEP #4: Retarget Steam to launch GOG Galaxy instead of the installer

You can enter that now or later but that is the first major part done. That should leave you with the installer finishing and the GOG Client being started and asking you for your login information. Now we just start it like we would start a game (STILL FROM DESKTOP MODE) and do the installation just clicking “next” and “accept” without changing anything. For that go to your steam library and right click the now added “game” and open “Properties…” switching to the “COMPATIBILITY” tab where you select “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool” and set a proton version (ideally most recent here Proton 7.0-1) Moving on we are going to force the installer to be run in a proton environment. Now the game should be added to your steam library as a non steam game. Enter the path to the folder where you put the installer (e.g.Click on “ADD A GAME” > Add a non-steam game.Start the desktop steam client by clicking on the steam icon on the desktop.Just copy it into your home directory somewhere.

#Gog galaxy not starting Pc#

Since GOG wont let you download the installer if youre on a linux platform my recommendation is to download it on your PC and transfer it to your SD via a network share (smb) or a usb drive. GOG Galaxy 2.0 is an application that allows you to combine multiple libraries into one and connect with your friends across all gaming platforms, consoles included.

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Today reddit user Ayren_the_Battlemage wrote a great tutorial on how to install GOG Galaxy 2.0 on the Steam Deck. Through time as more people get the device and developers get more time with it I expect more/easier ways to install applications on the Steam Deck. We’re very early in the Steam Deck life cycle so not many applications are compatible at moment.