I’ve looked around a little, and found some mentions of using Lutris, or running it through Steam (tbh I don’t know how that would work), but I’m not really able to find any guide that explains the process well enough. I’m so used to the game being handled by Blizzard’s Battle.net launcher, so I can’t really wrap my head around how that would work.
Lutris would also work if you set GE-Proton on it too. From its hamburger menu, go to Preferences, go to Runners tab, find Wine way below the list, open its settings (left button), and select GE-Proton as your Wine version. It will detect if you put it one on Steam’s
/compatibilitytools.d/directory, or you can manually select your preferred directory by enabling advanced options too.If it works on Heroic, you don’t need to do this of course. I just wanted to let you know that it’s possible on Lutris too. I think Lutris needs a built-in GE-Proton downloader just like Heroic.
Thank you for the advice. I did try to change the runtime a couple of times before, but I don’t know for sure if GE-Proton was one. I tried using Lutris again like I did before so I could select GE-proton, but this the installer would not even finish. Since I use GOG also, I decided to try the Heroic Launcher flatpak, and that installed Battle.net just fine. I’m now downloading WoW and I’ll keep you posted how that goes.
Edit: that worked! No noticeable issues so far.
Glad that worked! For some reason, Battle-net does not work well with regular Wine for some time now. It works but when there is a new agent update for Battle-net, it gets borked and either can be fixed with a complete reinstall or as a temporary fix, symlink the new agent to the old one. Anyway, these problems are not present with GE-Proton. Heroic made this easy by adding built-in downloader for GE-Proton. I guess it would be nice if Lutris does a similar thing.