Fed up with loads of gaming apps, help please

Jamin280672 · 8 Feb 2020 at 19:56

As the title suggests, my system just seems to be getting clogged up with different gaming apps for each game I own, steam, origin, battle.net etc etc, does anyone know if there is a one for all that will just handle all of these in one place ?

TIA

Mcnumpty2323 · 8 Feb 2020 at 20:01

look at geforce now
free version
i didnt read it all so may not be what you need
but did read the bit about it doing all steam,origin,etc etc
bear in mind i am dyslexic lol
so may have got the wrong end of the stick
but cant hurt you to have a quick look at it anyway
as theres a free version

Jamin280672 · 8 Feb 2020 at 20:09

Mcnumpty2323 said:
look at geforce now
free version
i didnt read it all so may not be what you need
but did read the bit about it doing all steam,origin,etc etc
bear in mind i am dyslexic lol
so may have got the wrong end of the stick
but cant hurt you to have a quick look at it anyway
as theres a free version

Thanks for that, not quite what I need, however, I may of found something which ive just downloaded and going to attempt to get working, its called GOG Galaxy, from the description it seems to do what im after: https://www.gog.com/galaxy

MonkeyBasher · 8 Feb 2020 at 20:14

There isnt an all on in one solution that will log into all these systems for you.

There are many wrapper solutions that will show all your games in one place. Both ATI and NVidia offer this, but they still need to launch whatever service the game lives on.

There is no reason for any of those services to launch on startup and you can disable that from within all the seperate clients.

The GoG Galaxy client takes this one step further and is trying to offer cross client chat etc, but it will still need the clients installed in order to run the game.

Mcnumpty2323 · 8 Feb 2020 at 20:18

Jamin280672 said:
Thanks for that, not quite what I need, however, I may of found something which ive just downloaded and going to attempt to get working, its called GOG Galaxy, from the description it seems to do what im after: https://www.gog.com/galaxy

Sorry geforce now was no use
Not heard of gog galaxy
So thanks
Will take a look at that

Drumroll · 8 Feb 2020 at 20:23

Still need the steam and similar, I'm afraid. No reason to install, yet, another app.

Jamin280672 · 8 Feb 2020 at 20:32

MrPotato said:
Still need the steam and similar, I'm afraid. No reason to install, yet, another app.

Yes thats what im seeing now, thanks, i'll keep looking.

steelhead31 · 10 Feb 2020 at 12:47

You could use steam grid db ( https://www.steamgriddb.com/ ), to import all of your none steam games into the steam ui.. or a while ago, I tried a utility called https://playnite.link/, which imports stuff from a lot of the standalone clients ( and things like mame & other emulators ) into a stand alone seperate UI, those 2 things may be worth a look.

Drizmod · 10 Feb 2020 at 13:18

https://www.playnite.link/ should do what you are looking for I think

Firestar_3x · 10 Feb 2020 at 13:46

I'd watch what you link your account to otherwise the inevitable: "I linked my account to X and now hackers want me to pay Y to get it back", will no doubt follow.

I'd rather put up with multiple apps than a potential massive security issue.

chroniclard · 10 Feb 2020 at 13:58

Not much you can do, unsure there is a solution that will also install updates etc?

I probably have all the launchers installed, also a small batch file that launches them all which I run once a week, I then leave them updating all the games.

Darujhistan · 10 Feb 2020 at 17:37

You can lauch everything from either AMD APP (as I do) or NV equivalent surely?

Malevolence · 10 Feb 2020 at 18:06

All these apps that claim to collate everything into one place do is offer a nice and shiny front end, but underneath all they're doing is launching the game's original launcher which means you then have two launchers running instead of one which just adds another level of something to cause a conflict and screw up your game.