Is there any reason why I shouldn’t buy FO4 goty from GOG instead of steam? You can still customize controls perfectly fine and all the mods/expansions still work? It won’t play any differently to a steam bought game except it will be in non-steam games?

I know games usually work fine, but I haven’t bought a new game from GOG since I got my steamdeck, so I’m nervous.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Steam versions of games tend to run a little better, and also benefit from things like Steam distributing pre-compiled shaders for the games. There are also some cases where non-steam games will require you to install specific windows components through wine for the game or in-game media to work.

    Overall Fallout 4 should work, but without actually trying it I can’t say if it will work without tinkering or not.

    Edit: did some searching, sounds like it mostly works, but you may have to manually install xact_64 to get sound working.

    • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      2 months ago

      Thanks for your edit. I did run into that problem, but you gave me a better starting point! probably saved me hours of frustrated searching.

      My solution, if anyone else needs this, was to install winetricks (through the discovery store) > and install xact_64 for the game (Install a Windows DLL or component). I mostly followed this tutorial and used xact_64 instead of whatever they said. And I did install FO4 through heroic the first time.