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Do go and check out the GamingOnLinux explainer on the different Proton versions and the GamingOnLinux guide to install GE-Proton to get started with it. You generally only need GE-Proton for very specific games as it's best to stick with Valve's official Proton for direct support, or for use outside of Steam like with the Heroic Games Launcher.
From the changelog for GE-Proton 10-30:
- add upstream patches for Arknights Endfield
- add pending upstream patch to allow proper placement of systray icons when winewayland is enabled
- import upstream changes to fix EA games
- updated em10/wine-wayland patches
- add changes to allow compiling on aarch64 (yes, proton-ge works on aarch64/ARM! -- still very WIP, YMMV)
Notes regarding aarch64(ARM):
- currently needs unreleased version of umu-launcher in order to use, as currently there is no aarch64 version of steam client. the umu-launcher changes will be pushed soon.
- 32 bit games are hit or miss from my limited testing
- gog installers need X87ReducedPrecision changed to 0 in Config.json for FEX (inside the Proton version's folder) to allow them to run
- must stress/reiterate YMMV -- your mileage may vary. The upstream work with proton/fex is NOT something we are involved in. If it works then great, if it doesn't -- don't ask us. It's WIP on Valve's side.
Pictured - Arknights Endfield
Source: GitHub
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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fenglengshun 2 hours ago
Oh, neat! I thought Endfield would be relegated to just dwproton's domain.
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TheLinuxPleb 1 hour ago
I had a crash with ProtonGE-29 with RE8. Sadly it takes three hours to have the crash. Not sure if it was NTSync also involved. Changing to Proton 10 by Valve made it work. Now that i checked the requirements to file a bug report to ProtonGE it might be bit too big of a hurdle cause id first have to test out Proton experimental first.
Also would have to test with NTSync on and off so it would probably take me like 20h or something to do a bug report. Glad that it's working with Proton 10 with video playback and all. I only used ProtonGE cause i thought that the video playback would have been broken on base Proton, but it turned out that it wasn't.
I think that with Steam the base Proton is best to be used and with Heroic ProtonGE with UMU.
Also would have to test with NTSync on and off so it would probably take me like 20h or something to do a bug report. Glad that it's working with Proton 10 with video playback and all. I only used ProtonGE cause i thought that the video playback would have been broken on base Proton, but it turned out that it wasn't.
I think that with Steam the base Proton is best to be used and with Heroic ProtonGE with UMU.
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