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Proton

Proton is a compatibility tool for games made by the developers of Steam, Valve. It is based on WINE.

GE-Version

Proton GE is a community built version of Proton. GE stands for Glorious Eggroll, the lead developer of Proton GE. It often contains fixes for bugs which are not yet included in the official Proton releases. Thus some games, that do not work with Proton, can be run with Proton GE.

Setup

Proton and Proton GE can be installed on Linux systems by using the ProtonUp application which in turn can be installed through Flatpak or the package manager of the distribution. ProtonUp is usually bundled in a package named protonup-qt. It can be used to install Proton GE versions for both Steam and Lutris.

Troubleshooting

This section addresses various errors that can happen when using Proton.

Errors with the Wine prefix of a specific game

The last ressort for fixing problems that are related to the wine prefix of a game is to delete the Wine prefix. For this the id of the Steam game first has to be known. This is done by navigating to the Steam website or the community page of the specific game. The URLs will have one of the following forms where the game id can be read:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/<game id>/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/<game id>/

After that navigate to the place your Steam games are stored. You can remove <steam location>/steamapps/compatdata/<game id> to reset the Wine prefix completely. It is recommended to keep a backup of the folder containing the old Wine prefix as it stores game saves and other important data, that can be useful.