Installing Origin to install EA games

[Summer]

I read that Valve and EA were cooperating and should, in theory, work with their games. I also read that as of Proton 5.0, they'd gotten a couple of games working as well.

While the game I care about (Dragon Age: Inquisition) wasn't specifically mentioned, I thought I'd try it out. My issue is that I can't get Origin installed in order to install the game. The installer ran ("Add a non-steam game") and launched the client, it started downloading but stopped dead after some time. It then wanted to update itself, which utterly failed and now won't run at all.

Is there a procedure to use to get this to work, or hints as to what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

[[GNU] Debian ☭]

Try Lutris. It can use dxvk too <3

[Summer]

I tried that a while ago. Didn't have any luck there either. Perhaps I'll give it another shot.

[thetargos]

Plain Wine bottle (prefix) with latest dxvk installed into the prefix.

[Marlock]

There seems to have been some improvement, yes. This changelog probably contains some of what you heard about, and previous ones (5.0.0 to 5.0.3) maybe have more:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-5.0-4

EA's Origin launcher is now functional and Jedi Fallen Order is playable.

As a general response, I'd tell you to check out item [9] here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1636417404917541481/

Unfortunately just this week I realized something important is missing in this part of the 101 guide, which is how to edit a library entry to point Proton to any folder as its prefix... I used it to be able to let my wife play a game from scratch without nuking my own progress in the same game even though it has no support for multiple saves/player profiles... it can also be used to run any software (steam-bought or not, game or otherwise) like the Origin installer in an existing or new empty profile folder of your choice.

Just go any library entry on steam, on its properties, then in the launch options you can set:

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="path/to/your/profile/folder" %command%

In your case this means you can create an entry on Steam to run the Origin installer via Proton in a chosen prefix and later edit the entry to run the installed game from that same prefix.


ps: I don't mean to dissuade you from buying this game or anything, but you should be aware that despite the hype around it, Dragon Age: Inquisition has always had several gross bugs and shortcomings, plus an insuferable performance and stability even on windows (a friend of mine was utterly disappointed because of those things when he got the game, bought on pre-release, and some of it never saw an official solution as far as we know)... so if you eventually get it running, be careful not to assume everything that goes wrong in the game us due to running inside Proton/Wine, when searching for a fix/workaround/whatever

[Summer]

Thanks! I'll give that a shot. And I've finished DA:I once, now wanting to try a second playthrough without rebooting, so it's not a question of buying it at this point, that ship sailed a while ago. :)

Edit: Oh, when I used winetricks, it borked Proton 5.0-4 to the point that it wouldn't run anything - needs Win7 or greater. I assume winetricks altered the Windows version, but I didn't dig into it, just re-installed Proton.

[Marlock]

IIRC some recent update to proton did change the default version of windows for new profiles or such, so that's likely your issue with winetricks, yeah...

my suggestion doesn't even require winetricks in principle, only running more than one software on a specific profile, so maybe it's a way to avoid that problem at least...

of course if the profile needs any more tweaks you may need it anyway, but with the recent work done on proton it's at least worth trying to run a clean profile first

[Ormgryd]

Use Lutris, Install with thier script. Then begin with the download. If it stops cancel the download (this might take some time) Then restart the download again, repeat untill the game is fully downloaded. This was tedious but it worked for me- Play the game in fullscreen windowed. Hope it works for you.

edit: Oh, yeah put the windows version to 10 in winesettings.