This is the stand alone version of the game from the Elder Scrolls Online website, not steam. Using Kubuntu 24.04
So this issue came up earlier and I decided to hide my head in the sand and just not update Lutris(flatpak) from 5.18, something (gf didn't see exactly what) inside lutris updated on tuesday (one of the bottom left options between flatpak and windows) and 5.18 stopped working and started acting like paragraph below, there is no more sand since the forced update.
As of Lutris 5.2 my gf cannot enter login info on the screen, moving the mouse over any other buttons on the screen work (they light up and do what they should when clicked like quit), I can find no work around online. I reinstalled ESO last night and the new install went smoothly but does the same thing.
So, I tried to install it in bottles but got a "host_ieversion error" which turns out to mean the version of IE is incompatible. How would I go about installing a version of IE8 (the one they supposedly want) or above in bottles to get the install working there? Is IE8 enough or should a version of edge be installed instead? Would I just use the "run application" (top option in bottles config) and run the ie/edge installer before running the eso installer? Would Heroic launcher be a better choice for this game (only looked at Lutris and Bottles so far)? Would the .deb versions of these launchers be better than flatpak?
Also tried to install in steam as a non-steam game but it wouldn't even launch the installer, but thinking about it now (it was late) I think I forgot to turn compatibility (in steam) on so that is a fail on my side, gf doesn't use steam (just made an account last night) and never has so getting it working this way is the final option.