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Let's talk about Steam Play

Let's talk about Steam Play, a way for Steam users to access Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Steam games with a single purchase.


Proton

The new and improved Steam Play for Linux is powered by Proton, a modified distribution of WINE that provides compatibility with Windows game titles.

Testing of the entire Steam catalog is ongoing, but for right now, a limited number of Proton-powered titles are supported in the initial beta release.

The announcement, frequently asked questions, and a full list of officially supported games can be found here.
Want to see your favorite Steam game become playable on Linux? Vote for your favorites using platform wishlisting.
Proton is fully open-source and available on GitHub.

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Best fixes/patches for GTA IV to boost performance/fps?

I remember the fix for GTA 4 on windows was a .bat file that you just ran, and it'd download/configure everything for you. I cannot find this fix anymore, and I am on Linux which makes a bat file useless. How can I get that fix for my game to make it smoother? It lags at 30fps in PlayboyX's mansion.

3 Comments
2025/01/30
21:22 UTC

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Help with vintage story

So I’ve managed to download vintage storage for the discover app on my steam deck like the game page says. done all the step but when it come to login in on the game it keeps saying login failed and all my details are correct as I test it on my phone. Can anyone help me with this problem

1 Comment
2025/01/23
05:40 UTC

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The Finals: Only getting ~20 FPS menus & in-game

Edit2: SOLVED. This is an issue with the update to The Finals on the 9th of January. I see now that multiple people on the ProtonDB site are talking about this as well, having the exact similar issue since the recent update. I'm unsure if this really has to do with the NVaftermath stuff, as removing it takes the game down to an even worse FPS count.

For the past couple of days, I've been working using Pop OS and trying to make it something usable for myself. It's up until yesterday that I've been dipping my toes into running Windows games with Proton.

Before I installed Pop OS onto my main SSD, splitting my Windows install with it, I was running a test install of Pop OS on a USB SSD, which ran The Finals perfectly fine - ~144 FPS on high settings (10 days ago). But it's been up until now that I've been encountering FPS issues, aka the game locking at around 20 FPS no matter the video settings.

I've tried multiple game launch opinions and both Proton 9 & Hotfix; not a change. But I'm willing to try out anything that could help.

System specs for note: i5-12600k, RTX 4070 SUPER, 32GB DDR4

0 Comments
2025/01/18
11:59 UTC

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Gaming on Linux EP#148: Slitterhead | Nobara | 3700X 6600XT

1 Comment
2025/01/11
15:30 UTC

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Games losing fokus all the time "tab in tab out"

I got a strange problem. Every game starts to freeze after 5 minutes. And to keep playing i need to tab in and out and then i can play again for a minute and then do it again.

So i guess the game looses fokus. Any i idea what i could do?

4 Comments
2025/01/04
00:10 UTC

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Getting Horrible fps compared to windows.

I just installed a new game called bodycam (its on stea) im running a 3080 with a ryzen 5 5600. On windows (im dual booting) i get around 180-190 fps give or take, although running on linux (even tried dx11) i only seem to get around 60-70 any tips?, (ive already tried different proton versions and PROTON_USE_D9VK=1, havent had anything help. Also ive tried messign with the fsr, nothing seems to make a difference. Although I do note that my fps stays the same no matter what resolution or graphical settings i change. which makes me seem to think that it has nothing to do with my hardware because running extreme settings gives me the same performance as potatoe at 720p (im running 1440p on windows).

4 Comments
2024/12/29
04:16 UTC

1

RemotePlay

I can't play a game with a friend, I don't know if I'm doing something wrong... someone save me!

1 Comment
2024/12/27
01:24 UTC

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Why is Sonic generations (2011) running at around 20 fps?

hello guys, i'm new here, and i came here specifically for this single issue. i'm using a laptop, to be more more specific, a inspirion 15 7000 gaming. my specs are:

Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz

16 GB of RAM

Windows 10 (64)

for what i know, these specs should be more than enough to run the game at a solid 60 fps, but for whatever reason the game tanks the fps down to abysmal framerates. i also tried to install performance improving mods such as the Direct3D11 mod, but it made no difference. idk why is this. the remastered version that released a few months ago runs way better, although it still drops frames like crazy, but it stays most of the time at acceptable framerates. i recently formatted the laptop too, and installed all the drivers. do you guys know why this could be happening? thanks in anticipation!

6 Comments
2024/12/22
19:43 UTC

1

Bully Audio Issues

i try to install xact and d3d9 with winetricks. But audio in cutscene missing. help.

0 Comments
2024/12/20
14:41 UTC

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Trying to play vr chat on popOS

I cannnot for the life of me get this error message to go away after vrchat crashes.

Failed to initialize graphics. Make sure you have DirectX 11 installed, have up to date drivers for your graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration in display settings. InitializeEngineGraphics failed

I have looked everywhere and i cant seem to find the problem

0 Comments
2024/12/09
06:22 UTC

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Lockdown protocol fatal error

I have tried Proton 9.0-3 and experimental and have been completely unable to launch the game.

https://pastebin.com/GC0kzqYY

0 Comments
2024/11/25
22:58 UTC

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How does one run a cheat engine table on a proton game? I'm using zorin (debian based)... online resources are scarce and very old.

I am trying to run this cheat table: https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterworld/mods/2161?tab=files

on this mod: https://github.com/AsteriskAmpersand/Ice-Stable

Mod installation is fine, everything works, but cheat engine installed through regular wine just won't be able to scan any processes. I've tried using protonhax but MHW ICE mod already needs the following launch command: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=version,dinput8=n,b %command% which i dunno how to use alongside the protonhax init %COMMAND%

4 Comments
2024/11/24
20:44 UTC

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Classy free fire live

0 Comments
2024/11/24
06:23 UTC

2

Brighter Shores on Termux / Mobox - SteamUser023 error

0 Comments
2024/11/18
00:34 UTC

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Gaming on Linux EP#147: Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered | Nobara | 3700X 6600XT

1 Comment
2024/11/11
17:42 UTC

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Does not start Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition

Hi all, I recently purchased Fallout 3 GOTY on Steam, but I've run into the fact that none of the advice from Youtube or ProtonDB is helping me.

It goes like this:

  • I click Play

  • Installed dotnet30 after the error comes out: failed, that I need to go to the Control Panel

  • I go into the game

  • I click new game

  • The game crashes on the loading screen

I tried downloading a ready-made pirate for Linux (don't judge harshly, for the test) and it worked...

I tried throwing in xlive.dll, tried making a 32 bit prefix, tried manually putting dotnet30 (no luck). None of these things worked for me

What to do, I can provide a dump with the error, but it is unlikely to help anything Click

PS: Startup parameters: PROTON_LOG=1 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=true gamemoderun %command% (vulkan does not work for me)

!!! UPD !!! :

I was able to do it, the game WORKED. So, in order of what I did.

  1. I uninstalled the game from Steam after making a backup copy through the built-in tools
  2. Restored the game and selected Proton 5.13-6. Launched, started a new game and got a crash
  3. Started manually doing all the actions from the YAML script, everything is done except for the moment with InoExtractor and wallpaper. Dependencies as dlls (like quartz) can be installed via protontricks. To make a patch, Fallout3.exe can be moved to the folder with the patcher and CMD to patch it, then move it with replacement back to the folder with the game. If some parameters are not in Fallout.ini, just create them! The main thing that they were in the right category [example Controls]
  4. After all manipulations I launched the game and saw the splash screen! I hope this instruction will help people with a similar problem

Thanks to everyone who tried to help me :D A little later I will upload the folder with the game, prefix and post the link here.

16 Comments
2024/11/05
20:07 UTC

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Gaming on Linux EP#146: Dragon Age The Veilguard | CachyOS | 3700X 6600XT

1 Comment
2024/11/03
16:54 UTC

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DualShock 4 and DualSense both need hidraw disabled

Why on Earth noone talks about disabling hidraw when using Dualshock 4 (and DualSense) via bluetooth?

It's so damn "stupid" I found the solution outside officals Steam channels: https://selfmadepenguin.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/how-i-solved-my-gamecontroller-problems/

0 Comments
2024/11/02
19:22 UTC

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Has anyone been able to get the Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster working under Steam Play?

I've played through HZD and HFW under steam/proton. Both titles didn't work out of the box and required several days to get going. I assume the remaster will be the same. I'm just curios if anyone not on a steam deck has it working as I've seen reports of people playing on the deck.

2 Comments
2024/11/01
19:26 UTC

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Gaming on Linux EP#145: Red Dead Redemption PC | Nobara vs CachyOS vs Windows 10

1 Comment
2024/11/01
10:47 UTC

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