KesharaMoving existing prefex from Lutris to Heroic
https://piefed.world/c/linux_gaming/p/977947/moving-existing-prefex-from-lutris-to-heroic
KoryI doubt that copying Battle.net over will work, I would try installing it via Heroic or Bottles, which has the installer preconfigured.
I’m kind of struggling to understand why though? I’m just pointing at the pre-existing and using the same Proton version. What’s breaking here?
MarcomunistaHave you tried running Heroic from the terminal? Do you get any error messages?
Yeah should have tried this from the start. Turned out the issue was just missing 32bit vulkan drivers, I guess those dependencies are included when running Lutris as a Flatpak, but with Heroic installed as a .deb I needed them to be system installed.
Anyway, problem solved, can happily play WoW again 😀
BjörnI did this a few years ago.
Maybe the best option is to create an entirely new prefix in Heroic and install battle.net via their “run installer first” button. Via Winetricks GUI you can install the 2 fonts or whatever that the lutris script installs.
Then, copy the game files of StarCraft 2 or WoW or whatever to the new prefix program files.
Then, in battle.net, it will either auto-detect the game, or you can go through the “search for games” flow in settings.
That should work, it is always better to have a fresh prefix as it takes almost no space. Once everything is copied you can simply delete the old one.
Thanks for the response. I wanted to put more thought into it as it made absolutely no sense to me why using a different launcher (Heroic vs Lutris) would break anything. It’s the same version of Proton, prefix is already configured, we’re just pointing to exe’s really from here.
Turns out the clue was the 2 different install methods - Flatpak and native .deb.
I was just missing the 32bit Vulkan drivers, I’m assuming these are included in the Flatpak, but I needed them for the native install of Heroic. Once I installed these, problem solved and WoW is happily running again