Steam Play was updated again with Proton 4.2-2

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: einherjarIt does not start Just Cause 3. But it runs fine with lutris (my son plays it with lutris).

Perhaps it will work with the next update. I'll be waiting, as I don't want to deal with lutris actually.

Really each to their own but its really simple to use i find i get it if you arent happy with linking your steam library but i prefer lutris over proton because i have more control over the configuration.

To things let me prefer proton over lutris:

1. Using Proton tells the dev/publischer the money comes from a Linux-User
2. When I want to play, I just want to play --> Klick play and that's it :-)

Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: Sil_el_motNice.
Sidequestion: Did anybody managed to get the game Deadpool working? Unfortunately there is no entry in the Protondb for it.

I've tried, no joy. :<

Looks like Dead Pool is CEG (custom executable generation) protected. And this seems not to work with the Linux Steam client. It neither downloads a working custom executable signed for your hardware, nor does the checking work properly. Which is a shame, as most of those games are old and probably won't never get updated again, but work flawless in wine steam. So if Valve would fix that, those games could be whitelisted immediately.

The only game I got working, though it has CEG protection, is Aliens vs Predator from 2010. But with some workarounds. So you have to download or check file integrity of the game via wine steam or windows on that hardware, and then you need to fake the date. But once you figured that out, it works like a charm.

There are other CEG protected games, like Duke Nukem Forever, which works flawless in wine (I just tried it yesterday), but not at all with proton. See the corresponding thread on the proton github issue tracker.

i dont think proton has Mono
When i install paladins it skips netframe work on Wine-Staging 4.5/4.2 any staging
With Proton Netframe Works Starts to download from Online and sticks, i know you can delete the file and it skips and install, but that problem must be solved and it will fix tones of games

I hope one day they resolve problem with CEG (warhammer 40000: space marine) and the FMV in darksiders warmastered edition.
So only the vanilla version of Darksiders and Darksiders 2 would be missing to have my entire collection of steam running in proton.
But with warmastered and deathinitive edition this is a minor problem.

Quoting: legluondunet

Quoting: edoWait does it means .net games works now?

Same question, what does that mean? .Net 3.5 installed without tweaks with this new Proton version?

Answer: you still need to set Proton to XP to install .NET 3.5, so I don't know what this change mean.

Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: Sil_el_motNice.
Sidequestion: Did anybody managed to get the game Deadpool working? Unfortunately there is no entry in the Protondb for it.

I've tried, no joy. :<

Damn! I should play that game again, it was fantastic. I wonder with the success of the movies, we'll get any new games.

Sharing my own recent Proton experience: I have 16 Proton games installed. My Steam client set up is to "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" but the "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" is unticked. This is fine however, because you can individually go into each game's properties and set the game to use a specific version of Proton (e.g. The latest 4.2-2)

In order to use Proton in this way, I found that I needed to manually install the Proton Tool in the TOOLS part of the Steam Library. As I am writing this, I have Proton 3.16 Beta installed and Proton 4.2 (meaning 4.2-2) in the TOOLS list.

I have just gone through the various Proton enabled titles, and updated each of them to use Proton 4.2-2 and in some cases, when I tried to launch the game it would hang. However, a repeat attempt, and occasionally a restart of Steam Client, and eventually they are all up and running again (well, the ones that I don't have issue with.)

Here are the titles I have installed: Antihero (* never worked), Blades of Time, Braveland Heroes, Card Quest, Elder Scrolls Skyrim SE (* NPC audio still doesn't work), Fallout 3, Legend of Grimrock 2, Monster Slayers, Redout Demo, Risen, Runestone Keeper, Styx: Shards of Darkness, Super House of Dead Ninjas, Superflight, Tales of Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation.

Of those titles, Antihero has never worked, Skyrim SE is somewhat improved with recent Proton but I still have the NPC audio being silent problem, and Fallout 3 GOTY used to fail completely until a more recent Proton release (e.g. 4.x). The 14 games listed above with no asterisk (*) after their name all work near perfectly.

Noting that I am running Debian Linux 10 Buster (Testing) and have enabled the Experimental repository but only permitted (manually installed) the Nvidia graphics drivers/libraries from it (version 415.27).

Quoting: g000hDebian Linux 10 Buster (Testing) and have enabled the Experimental repository but only permitted (manually installed) the Nvidia graphics drivers/libraries from it (version 415.27).

nvidia-driver 418.56 has been in experimental a while now. :)

Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: einherjarIt does not start Just Cause 3. But it runs fine with lutris (my son plays it with lutris).

Perhaps it will work with the next update. I'll be waiting, as I don't want to deal with lutris actually.

Really each to their own but its really simple to use i find i get it if you arent happy with linking your steam library but i prefer lutris over proton because i have more control over the configuration.

To things let me prefer proton over lutris:

1. Using Proton tells the dev/publischer the money comes from a Linux-User
2. When I want to play, I just want to play --> Klick play and that's it :-)

Fair enough but I have never not been able to click play on lutris but i get get that point but to be honest we have all the publishers we are ever going to have Bethesda EA Ubisoft and Activision are never ever going to support linux not even with Valve supporting linux gaming. I think the only way you would get one of them to say okay well support linux is if the install base is more than the windows base.


Last edited by Whitewolfe80 on 3 April 2019 at 10:38 pm UTC

Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: g000hDebian Linux 10 Buster (Testing) and have enabled the Experimental repository but only permitted (manually installed) the Nvidia graphics drivers/libraries from it (version 415.27).

nvidia-driver 418.56 has been in experimental a while now. :)

Well, a couple of weeks ago. For me, a *while* is a few months...

Your comment spurred me to manually update to the *latest* experimental drivers, and for any Debian beginners, I'm sharing the technique below (but I suggest to only run commands like this if you back-up your OS).

su -     
# I don't use sudo, this gives you "root" privilege (for the following commands)
vi /etc/apt/sources.lst

- Add experimental, alongside buster:

deb http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
..
..
deb http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10defaultRelease

- This is a new config file, running alongside the other apt configs, and it just contains:

APT::Default-Release "buster";

- Having this stops experimental packages from installing, unless you manually force them

The regular update and upgrade commands:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Now we're ready to install the new experimental Nvidia driver and associated packages:

apt-get -t experimental install nvidia-driver libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386
apt-get -t experimental install nvidia-vulkan-common

I also like to do various clean-up and maintenance commands, e.g.

update-grub2
reboot
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean

Going into Nvidia X Server Settings, and the new driver is visible: 418.56

After doing this, I tried out my non-performing Proton titles and a few random Proton titles and all were running just like they were with the 415.27 driver. Maybe a tiny frame rate change.