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STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/mnt/extra/Games/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx" WINEPREFIX=$PWD "/mnt/extra/Games/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/proton" run ./drive_c/setup.exe
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wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org
I can't find any explanation about this. Did anyone else encountereed witsh such problem?
Last edited by DMG on 7 May 2021 at 5:30 am UTC
Thank you for sharing the example.
Looking at your error, what version of FreeType are you running? I think it's up to 2.10.x now. I can't imagine your distro not having something newer installed than 2.0.5, but it's worth a shot.
When you run Proton outside the runtime it picks up the system libraries and if there's a mismatch you end up with problems.
I don't know if there's an easy way to solve this cleanly by using the runtime outside Steam but pointing LD_LIBRARY_PATH at the shipped libraries or installing the requested library version might be good enough.
Not to rant, but this is stupid simple in Lutris, I can't imagine why they decided to make this so hard in Steam. Doing this should just be a button press in Steam.
Come to think of it... If Steam is set up to start it's version of Wine and then run a specific .exe for the game, could we just fake the game; Rename our exe to the game exe (and obviously rename the game exe). I guess it depends on what program you want to run, one time mod or patch installers might work, but I think more complicated companion programs might not work.
Ofc, we have to switch back to play the game...
Last edited by denyasis on 10 May 2021 at 10:43 pm UTC
http://gromano.fr/bludit/using-winecfg-or-regedit-on-a-proton-game-prefix