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Title: I'm looking for a good "launch options" resource

Nanobang 5 Aug 2021

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Is there a good source listing all or most launch options regarding proton, vulkan, etc., &c., with decent explanations for their various uses?

I was having sound issues with Dead Island: Riptide recently and I thought, "I bet there's some launch options that might fix this." The problem was I simply didn't know any. In the end I fixed it by replacing the flatpak version of pulseeffects with the one in the Mint repos (?!), but I'm left wondering about proton (&c) launch options.

Any help or insight massively appreciated. :)

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furaxhornyx 5 Aug 2021

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There's the [GitHub repository of Proton](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/#runtime-config-options), with some options, not sure if it is helpful to you though.
I usually just read comments on protonDB to see which launch options to apply, as I don't fully understand all the details of these.

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Nanobang 16 Aug 2021

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Quoting: furaxhornyxThere's the [GitHub repository of Proton](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/#runtime-config-options), with some options, not sure if it is helpful to you though.
I usually just read comments on protonDB to see which launch options to apply, as I don't fully understand all the details of these.

Thanks for the link, I appreciate that, but I'm really looking for a much more comprehensive list. :)

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whizse 16 Aug 2021

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Any single list would quickly be outdated I think. "Proton" makes up quite a few projects so here's a few resources:

Wine debug channels:
https://www.linuxsecrets.com/wine-wiki/Debug_Channels.html

vkd3d (skip down to Environment Variables)
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton

[DXVK](https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk) (check HUD/Debugging) and [dxvk.conf](https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/blob/master/dxvk.conf) for game specific workarounds.

Of course both ProtonDB and the Wine AppDB are always worth checking for workarounds.

There's also driver specific workarounds:

Environment variables here:
https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html

Application specific workarounds here (can also be used as environment variables)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/util/00-mesa-defaults.conf

...and specific workarounds for SDL, FAudio, PulseAudio etc....

Last edited by whizse on 21 Aug 2021 at 10:25 am UTC

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peta77 7 Oct 2021

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Quoting: Nanobang
Quoting: furaxhornyxThere's the [GitHub repository of Proton](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/#runtime-config-options), with some options, not sure if it is helpful to you though.
I usually just read comments on protonDB to see which launch options to apply, as I don't fully understand all the details of these.
Thanks for the link, I appreciate that, but I'm really looking for a much more comprehensive list. :)

Recently found (well, actually someone in the steam forums pointed it out to me) this site, which helped me finally play my vr-videos from any location. But there's also "fixes" for other issues. Take a look if you still need something:

[GitHub - steamlinuxruntime-known-issues](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/blob/master/doc/steamlinuxruntime-known-issues.md)

Last edited by peta77 on 7 Oct 2021 at 4:07 pm UTC

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