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Each proton game should have a folder named with the steam appid, they are the wine prefix's for the games. You should be able to modify them in order to apply custom fixes for games. What I'm wondering is what happens if you verify the game files, does it overwrite your changes. What would be great is if you could save custom prefix settings in steam like you do with save games so you can apply your customization's on other machines through steam.
I have these glitches in Still Life 1 and 2 and I don't know why.. I think prefixes must be tweaked by hand.
If it is not the case, you can open an issue here:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues
Yesterday I tried to tweak Proton for Darksiders game.
Darksiders needs devenum, windows media player and quartz.
I did:
WINEPREFIX='/mnt/dd2/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/50620/pfx' winecfg
and I can see the Proton dll overrides...
you can try this too:
WINEPREFIX='/mnt/dd2/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/50620/pfx' winetricks
Winetricks works fine.
BTW, the default prefix path is "$HOME/.steam/steam/SteamApps/compatdata/<APPID>/pfx".
$ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/USERNA_PROFILE_NAME/.steam/steam/SteamApps/compatdata/<APPID>/pfx" wine regedit
I ask this because I type:
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.steam/steam/SteamApps/compatdata/203730/pfx" winecfgThe game is Q.U.B.E
I got this error:
wine: chdir to /home/comandante/.steam/steam/SteamApps/compatdata/203730/pfx: No such file or directory
2) if $HOME does not work, did you try with true folder path?
3) are you sure compdata folder are stored at "$HOME/.steam/steam/SteamApps/compatdata/?
2. What do you mean with true folder path?
3. Yes.
$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/
Now wine config screen load but crash...
err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"WineBus" failed to loadMaybe because the wine version in my system is very old, because I never use it... I use Crossover.
Anyhow, for games that need native .dll's I've had succcess just dropping the files in the game folder. It survives Proton updates, bug might not work for all titles.
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.steam/steam/SteamApps/compatdata/203730/pfx" winetricksworksI was unable to install .net 4.0 that the game needs..
But I understand is a normal issue.
At least, now I know how to experiment.