Epic Games Launcher

What works

Installation (with workarounds)

UI (with workarounds)

Game key redemption

Downloading and launching games

What does not

Installation requires workarounds

The flickering issue worked around with the backgrounding trick will eventually come back, necessitating a restart.

Seems to temporarily freeze every now and then.

Workarounds

Installation requires a few things from winetricks. I do not know if everything below is needed but this is what I wound up adding:

• corefonts
• d3dcompiler_43
• d3dx10
• d3dx11_43
• dotnet40
• xinput

In addition, to fix the flickering/gray screen issue, you need to run the launcher with "-com.epicgames.launcher://apps/Tulip?action=launch&silent=true" on the command line. Then wait. The flickering appears to be caused by the login popups, so it's important that the launcher is fully logged in before you open the window. After you've waited a minute or two, open the main window by double-clicking on the tray icon. (If your WM/DE doesn't pick up Wine tray icons, you'll need to enable the virtual desktop in winecfg.)

What was not tested

Social features

Browsing store/buying games

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Doesn't seem to care if DXVK is installed or not. You will probably want DXVK for the actual games though.