Only a few days after GE-Proton 9-12 was released, GE-Proton 9-13 is out now with a fix for World of Warcraft along with upstream code updates.
As your reminder: it's a community-build of Proton, nothing to do with the official Proton from Valve. You'll find GE adds specific fixes that Valve often can't (due to legal reasons) but GE comes with less testing and support. Usually you only want to use it for specific games until they work properly in Valve's Proton, or for using Proton outside of Steam like in Heroic and Lutris. See more about Proton in my guide.
From the GE-Proton 9-13 release notes:
Hotfix:
- Update vkd3d-proton to latest git to include World of Warcraft MSAA fix
proton:
- wine updated to latest bleeding edge
- dxvk updated to latest git
- proton upstream fixes added
Additional:
- protonfixes updated to latest git
Pictured - World of Warcraft artwork, credit: Blizzard
You can install GE-Proton with ProtonUp-Qt.
For those of you reading who regularly play WoW on Linux with Wine / Proton, how's the experience nowadays? It's been a very long time since I tried, but I remember even years before Proton is mostly ran quite well.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Comandante Ñoñardo 5 Sep 2024
Meanwhile LUTRIS is still with the version 8-26 shown as "stable"
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Meanwhile LUTRIS is still with the version 8-26 shown as "stable"Lutris is switching to ULWGL for later wine versions. See this Lutris forum response on why 8-26 is (probably) the last wine version that Lutris supports directly.
That said, I'm baffled as to how this actually works. Lutris still has a "wine version management" tool, and doesn't list ULWGL there, so I'm not really sure how you're supposed to configure this. I use Heroic these days which seems to have a much cleaner interface for this stuff. And the GOG authentication actually loads, unlike Lutris, which just times out.
!Heroic launcher, showing "Wine Manager", with arrow pointing to Proton-GE options
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silverhikari 5 Sep 2024
Meanwhile LUTRIS is still with the version 8-26 shown as "stable"Lutris is switching to ULWGL for later wine versions. See this Lutris forum response on why 8-26 is (probably) the last wine version that Lutris supports directly.
That said, I'm baffled as to how this actually works. Lutris still has a "wine version management" tool, and doesn't list ULWGL there, so I'm not really sure how you're supposed to configure this. I use Heroic these days which seems to have a much cleaner interface for this stuff. And the GOG authentication actually loads, unlike Lutris, which just times out.
!Heroic launcher, showing "Wine Manager", with arrow pointing to Proton-GE options
to get umu to appear on lutris as it still is experimental, is trying adding 'env LUTRIS_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES_ENABLED=1' before lutris and look for 'PROTON-GE-LATEST' in the runner version selector though i do not know if it is in the current stable lutris release or you will have to get the git version
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Heroic also uses wine 8-26 by default, and recommends against using Proton-GE if possible, one reason being Proton doesn't produce helpful logs if it came to it. I only play 2 games on that launcher (Among Us and Fall guys), and the default wine works pretty well.
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Installed it on my Majaron desktop the other day using Lutris and it's default settings. Works just fine.
Also installed it on the Steam deck yesterday using the default Proton 9 version as a non-steam game. This too works just fine.
What was broken in GE-Proton?
Also installed it on the Steam deck yesterday using the default Proton 9 version as a non-steam game. This too works just fine.
What was broken in GE-Proton?
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World of Warcraft Cataclysm Classic works fine for me with DX11 and DX12, played on and off veeeeery casually since Burning Crusade Classic. Haven't played Retail in some years but a few years ago it worked fine with DX11. Some Nvidia users reported issues with the recent Retail expansion "The War Within" on the vkd3d-proton issue tracker, but also reported it works fine with DX11.
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Meanwhile LUTRIS is still with the version 8-26 shown as "stable"Yes, because that's the latest version of wine ge. This article is about proton ge. You're confusing the two.
As others have said, we should wait for umu proton, or use wine tkg.
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I think it was too early to stop wine-ge in February. It does not look like umu will be ready in the near future (latest release is 0.1-RC4 released in April).
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Caldathras 6 Sep 2024
I think it was too early to stop wine-ge in February. It does not look like umu will be ready in the near future (latest release is 0.1-RC4 released in April).This is exactly the point I wanted to make. Thanks, Klaas.
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On lutris you use 8-26 or something for WoW and it's working well on both devices I have. One has an issue with Battle.net chocking the CPU but the bigger system can handle that (7800x3d). I gave that laptop to a friend and his only biggest issue is that and his bluetooth devices not working on linux. Why would you use a bluetooth mouse without it's dongle? He says he lost it and now blames linux for not working lol. Still haven't switched back to Windows so that's a win. This whole experiment only costed me 300$ to ship the laptop 
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