That's not happening for me, so must be something with your config.

Never seen anything like that. The only thing that comes to mind is that your Proton installation is somehow messed up. Try clearing ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/ directory and restarting Steam. You will most likely have to "verify files" for your Proton installations afterwards to get them to re-download.

Yes, possibly a broken proton implementation in compatibilitytools.d. When you launch Steam, it checks all those, runs the wine interpreter, checks DirectX within it etc.

I find that highly annoying (I don't need Steam doing that shit in the background for the first 5 minutes after launch... I have several with Valve's Proton since inception + a few runners in compatibilitytools.d

I have also had Steam pop up winecfg and write to ~/.wine which I never use for anything and delete. The details escape me, but I know that has annoyed me. I think it was one of my Proton-GE's at the time but I'm not sure.

Last edited by Grogan on 24 October 2022 at 9:23 pm UTC

Quoting: LinasNever seen anything like that. The only thing that comes to mind is that your Proton installation is somehow messed up. Try clearing ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/ directory and restarting Steam. You will most likely have to "verify files" for your Proton installations afterwards to get them to re-download.

That fixed it it seems, thank you very much! Its kinda weird how steam randomly breaks sometimes. Guess thats the price of all the auto updates.