Maintained by Thomas Crider, a Red Hat Engineer, these custom Proton-GE builds include the most recent releases of vanilla WINE, FFmpeg enabled for FAudio by default, and all of Proton's patches ported over to be applied to Wine, as well as Wine-staging and VKD3D.

Proton-GE is a fork of ValveSoftware Proton. I agree that it is still a bit much that you have to configure every game that is not supported on Linux, but keep in mind that these games were not built for Linux at all and Valve’s Proton is an Open Source tool which you can get for free that will run your games.Developed by Valve, Proton is a compatibility layer for Microsoft Windows games to run on Linux-based operating systems from within the Steam Client. The year of the Linux desktop is here, and with these tools streamlining the game compatibility on Linux, more and more people will switch to it.

You can also add these settings to every individual game by modifying their properties. Add The Installed Compatibility Layer To Steam

To do this in Steam, go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and enable all the checkboxes. And then add your installed compatibility layer in the game launch options. Just hit install and then open your preferred game launcher (Steam, Heroic or Lutris). You Can Select The Compatibility Took As Well As The VersionĪs you can see, It also provides a small description of the layer you want to install. As you can see, I have ‘SteamTinkerLaunch’ already installed on my system, but if you want to install any compatibility tool, just click on the ‘Add version’ button and then select what you want (for example, the latest Proton-GE).

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