Valve released Proton 10.0-3, the latest main stable version of the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux / SteamOS machines like Steam Deck.

Valve released Proton 10.0-3, the latest main stable version of the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux / SteamOS machines like Steam Deck. And now the Steam Machine and Steam Frame too of course whenever they arrive sometime in 2026.

The secret sauce that makes Linux gaming so amazing now, enabling tens of thousands of games to run well, just not those with certain types of anti-cheat which is a continuing problem. It’s been a long road to get here, with Proton 10 being in some form of Beta since April. But it’s here now!

  • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    In case you don’t know, for any of those games that don’t work, check ProtonDB. Often some easy additions to run arguments get it going and people post them here

    • GarboDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Will do, one of the games we very much want to play but for some reason can’t get running is Voices of the Void. Will have to look it up there

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Set launch options WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER=1 %command%

        If that doesn’t work let me know and I’ll dig further for ya.

        • GarboDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Thank you! Sadly its still giving errors :( Proton Experimental “Couldn´t start: “VotV-Win64-Shipping.exe” VotV CreateProces() returned 2” 9.0-4 and lower “The following component(s) are required to run this program: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime”

          Also looking online, it seems to be a pretty common issue and no one has found an answer as of yet (far as we’ve seen. granted were not good at this stuff/havent looked for an answer for a few months now lol)

          • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Can you link the game? I caught the flu and so have a bit of spare time to debug. Just want to make sure I’m not looking at the wrong game

            • GarboDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              sure, https://mrdrnose.itch.io/votv OS: Fedora 42 Linux

              also note, we tried re-unzipping with a different zip manager since people are saying the zip manager could be at fault. and now its not launching / giving any error at all 😅

              Edit: oh no!! hope you feel better too! We also got a cold / ear infection ouselves so we totally feel u aaa

              • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
                2·
                14 hours ago

                Alright, I’m on Linux Mint. Steps I took:

                1. Downloaded version 0.8.2 c
                2. Right clicked and chose “Extract Here”
                3. In steam added non steam game (chose VotV.exe)
                4. Right clicked game in library
                5. Properties
                6. Compatibility
                7. Checked Force the Use of specific compatibility
                8. Chose Proton 9.0-4
                9. Closed window
                10. Clicked play
                11. When the popup saying “following component(s) are required” I clicked install c++ runtime <- This will install it only for this game, my understanding is steam using a prefix for every game and this will install it for this game’s prefix
                12. Let it install (just yes through the checkboxes, I changed none of the settings)

                Ran perfectly fine after that (well, I spent five seconds in the tutorial after “rendering icons” took like five minutes). I believe ProtonTricks has a branch somewhere that can be used to somewhat more manually install things to non-steam games in your library, but I’ve not gone looking for it.

                I will say I thought you were talking about a steam game since you mentioned proton and this is an article about proton. For non steam games a lot of people prefer to use Lutris, I’ve never used it so I can’t speak to anything about it. You could also use winetricks to install vcrun2022 (the c++ runtime that it’s asking for) and then just use wine to run the game but that feels weird in this day and age.

                Sorry, that’s all I got