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East Anderson 2 Jul @ 10:15pm
How can I run an exe alongside a steam game?
Hello! I have this situation where I need to change the FOV of Battlefield 4. BF4 DOES have an FOV slider, but it tragically only works in multiplayer. So I looked online for tweaks, and I found that players said they used this program called Flawless Widescreen that runs alongside BF4, that allows them to change the FOV of the singleplayer games.

https://www.flawlesswidescreen.org/

Awesome! Only problem is that I'm on Linux. I found this reddit post of another user saying how they used Flawless Widescreen to adjust the FOV of Spyro, launching FW in the same proton prefix of Spyro

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/z33dmg/i_found_an_easy_way_to_run_flawless_widescreen/

I'm reading this but I don't understand how I can make it work for myself. How would you make this work? How will this affect achievements? I am using gamescope in the launch parameters. How will the code change for me if gamescope is active?

gamescope -f -g --force-grab-cursor -H 1080 -W 1920 --framerate-limit 144 -- %command%

Thank you very much! If you are able to help me figure this out, in the future I would be able to run complementary software alongside the games that need it.
Last edited by East Anderson; 2 Jul @ 10:19pm
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sweetiebot 3 Jul @ 7:45am 
if you use wine to open it outside of steam would it still work?
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DevaVictrix 3 Jul @ 12:34pm 
I’ve never tried anything like this before but would a launch command do it? If it’s an exe I guess it would need proton… using the same prefix that your game uses. Maybe?

The post above is a better starting try though.

Edit: a quick ai ‘search/query’ mentioned protonhax. That might be something to look at.
Last edited by DevaVictrix; 3 Jul @ 12:40pm
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AngryBeard 3 Jul @ 12:48pm 
I know how to do it, but I won't be able to provide any instructions for awhile. I won't be back at my home for another day.

I can tell you that I used lutris and protontricks to do it.
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East Anderson 3 Jul @ 12:59pm 
thank you for your inputs guys! Right now I am trying out proton tricks and lutris. Will update on how that goes
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tfk 3 Jul @ 1:27pm 
You can do it with Lutris, another option is Bottles. It has a switch which will list all installed games, or rather, their prefixes. You can select it and run an exe from it.
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