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I got my Steam Deck 3 days ago and I just started exploring it. Given that I already have a large library of games on Epic Games, one of the first thing I did was installing the Heroic launcher. It worked well for some of the games (and not for others... like Hyper Light Drifter ;_; if someone knows how to configure it please help me). What I'm not understanding is: why do I need to have different proton versions installed for each game? Eg: one game requires GE 7.32 (what's GE by the way???), another game version 7.45, another one 7.20 etc etc etc... Why? I already had the latest version (8.0) of proton installed on my Steam Deck, shouldn't it be enough to run all other games being the latest version? 🫤

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As a Windows user, I think the easiest software we can compare it to is NET Framework redistributables - your PC would need that to run some programs, otherwise it won't understand them. Just like how Linux needs Wine (Proton) to understand and run Windows software. People kinda answered everything else

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