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Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

118 mentions on Hacker News by 97 people: 20 stories, 98 comments · first 2018-08-22 · latest 2026-10-01

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  1. …and if it were really so easy I suspect they would have furthered their work on Proton for Mac ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1344 ).
    comment by striking · 2022-02-07 · in Thank You, Valve
  2. …front (some rationale in [2]), although I think community efforts on wine would be welcomed. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/a84120449d817... [2] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1493#issuecom...
    comment by MayeulC · 2021-12-22 · in Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It
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    Proton 6.3-8 Latest
    story by doener · 2021-11-28 · 0 comments
  4. …layer like Wine. Which is what Valve maintains - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine and https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton Valve only needs to maintain wine & proton for a distribution. The games themselves ? well, they are windows…
    comment by sandGorgon · 2021-11-23 · in Flatpak Is Not the Future
  5. With Steam and/or Proton https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by sheepdestroyer · 2021-10-09 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
  6. …but Star wars Interregnum seems to crash for me after a while. I think it's a known issue on Linux: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/265#issuecomm... These mods seem nice, but I am not so much into these other universes, and…
    comment by MayeulC · 2021-07-28 · in In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
  7. …2nd generation of it. Wonder if they'll release a Oculus-Quest-like all-in-one VR system next. 1. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by flanbiscuit · 2021-07-15 · in Valve Steam Deck
  8. …games. It's just a fork[0] of Wine with DXVK and some other Wine "extensions" baked in. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton Also good luck buying a new GPU in the next 4 years :)
    comment by utf_8x · 2021-06-29 · in Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements
  9. …Wine also has DXVK to convert the DirectX calls to Vulkan ones. So it's all the same stuff really. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/ wine @ eef39a6 vkd3d-proton @ 72d9b32 Cobbling together existing tools is really powerful in games…
    comment by aspaceman · 2021-06-27 · in Roblox on Linux with recent Wine 6.11
  10. This occurred to me, too. Might be able to get it running on Wine or even Proton [1] [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/
    comment by programmarchy · 2021-06-25 · in Nvidia Canvas
  11. VAC also does not work under Proton: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3225
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2021-03-05 · in Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
  12. …installed on Windows (so you don't have to install games on both operating systems)? I've tried https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-di... to no avail.
    comment by mismatchpair · 2021-03-05 · in Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
  13. …so is proprietary. ProtonDB isn't open source but does data dumps to github regularly [3]. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/ [1] https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk [2] https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk [3]…
    comment by Zhyl · 2021-03-05 · in Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
  14. …pretty and easy to use, integrating wine into their launchers, but it isn't entirely their project. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by sandworm101 · 2021-03-05 · in Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
  15. Proton definitely is. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by circularfoyers · 2021-03-05 · in Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
  16. Not forks. The whole code for Proton is in https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton and its submodules. There are many game-specific patches, i.e., patches that were more or less explicitly included to make one specific game (or a few…
    comment by giomasce · 2021-01-15 · in Wine 6.0
  17. …you usually find also corresponding GitHub issues. E.g. here for NVIDIA issues with Cyberpunk 2077: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4450
    comment by albertzeyer · 2020-12-10 · in Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
  18. …where the window is. Not sure where to get help with the matter. Filed a bug about my issue here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4443
    comment by hendry · 2020-12-08 · in With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
  19. …Wine depending on the methods they use. Even Valve's own VAC continues to have issues with Proton: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3225 Like VAC, EAC does have a native Linux version, but that does require a native Linux…
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2020-12-08 · in With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
  20. …to get it runs stable enough, and all mentions of it have been removed from the repo 2 years ago. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/a84120449d817...
    comment by shantara · 2020-12-07 · in With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
  21. …the multiplayer working (manual steps needed [0]). Less and less reasons to boot on Windows! [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3189#issuecom...
    comment by keraf · 2020-12-07 · in With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
  22. …we don't end up with a dangling reference if the referenced struct failed to outlive this struct. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_5.13/med... https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_5.13/med...…
    comment by coldpie · 2020-11-17 · in Best aspects of C
  23. …example of the code I wrote. This bit is outputting stuff to a file in some binary format: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_5.13/med... E: If you want to take another stab, the way I learned Rust was the book:…
    comment by coldpie · 2020-11-17 · in Best aspects of C
  24. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-di...
    comment by Cloudef · 2020-11-16 · in Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
  25. …folder to a filesystem that support filename with the character ':', such as ext4. More info here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-di... https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/82#issuecomme... Windows and…
    comment by minetest2048 · 2020-11-10 · in Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan
  26. It was just a cheap dig, but try combining this page https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2907 with this extension https://github.com/findepi/user.js/blob/master/github-expand... to expand all of the missing comments. You'll get…
    comment by coldpie · 2020-10-13 · in iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
  27. …it a step further and even blocked virtual machines. Even Valve's own VAC has issues with Proton: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3225
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2020-09-17 · in Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316 days)
  28. …so much, can confirm to works great. In case anyone looking for how to, follow the instructions on https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton#runtime-config-optio... , uncomment the PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 line.
    comment by rudilee · 2020-07-26 · in Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities
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    Proton
    story by tosh · 2020-05-18 · 0 comments
  30. …Issue Search". I suspect that's where you'll find the discussions. Here's the issue for MCC. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2907
    comment by tvb12 · 2020-04-20 · in Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
  31. Looks like there's tons of game-specific discussion on the Issues page for Proton itself: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues
    comment by mikeyouse · 2020-04-20 · in Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
  32. Presumably over at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues
    comment by bo0tzz · 2020-04-20 · in Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
  33. …Proton is still in its infancy so support is inconsistent, but regularly improving." Source Code: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by peter_d_sherman · 2020-04-20 · in Steam Proton for Linux
  34. Annoyingly, games that use Valve's own DRM/encryption scheme CEG don't work: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/753
    comment by bmorbach · 2020-04-20 · in Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
  35. …Is Valve putting lots of dev time into it? Or is it just pre-configured for ease of use? [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by tgb · 2020-04-20 · in Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
  36. Actual link: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog This blog spam is serving drive by malware. https://i.imgur.com/DpYTX0d.png appears to be the trigger, for people interested.
    comment by dylz · 2020-02-08 · in Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux
  37. …most problems are due to graphics card and audio drivers, not game-specific irregularities. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4 [2] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/labels/Game%20compat...
    comment by j-james · 2020-02-08 · in Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux
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    Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux
    story by SomeSnail · 2020-02-08 · 64 comments
  39. …Personally, I don't see any problem using Proton to play the game on my Linux gaming-rig. [1]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton [2]: https://www.protondb.com/app/252950
    comment by notinventedhear · 2020-01-28 · in Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift
  40. I'd think Proton is something to boast about. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by kryptn · 2020-01-24 · in Ending Support for macOS and Linux
  41. …this and Valve's Proton[0] are both solutions to different cross-platform compatibility issues. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by 1MachineElf · 2020-01-20 · in Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React
  42. …form for my work comes in very handy here, too. More details on the rebasing procedure I use: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_4.11/doc... Here's some of the tooling I use often. For Git stuff, see pick_commits and…
    comment by coldpie · 2019-10-08 · in 99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script
  43. Gaming is also one of the main reasons why I still have a Windows box. However, thanks to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton , this might be less of a problem in the future.
    comment by TobyGiacometti · 2019-08-31 · in Spybot Anti-Beacon: Disable Tracking/Telemetry in Windows
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    Play Steam Games on Linux
    story by donutloop · 2019-08-08 · 0 comments
  45. …It's a doozy[2]! [1] Proton is Valve's fork of Wine which ships with the Linux Steam client. [2] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/d68e71bed61c8...
    comment by coldpie · 2019-08-07 · in Wine on Windows 10
  46. It's called Proton and the repo is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by zwerdlds · 2019-06-22 · in Valve Will Not Be Officially Supporting Ubuntu 19.10
  47. It can actually load arbitrary games with a port of Wine https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/
    comment by MarceColl · 2019-06-14 · in Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required
  48. You are correct, they have developed Proton [1] which is based on Wine. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by breakingcups · 2019-06-14 · in Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required
  49. …games just work with it. Something you couldn't even imagine happening for the next 10 years. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by nbaksalyar · 2019-06-05 · in Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman
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    Valve releases Proton 4.2-4
    story by ekianjo · 2019-05-15 · 0 comments