Quoting: GuestAbsolutely. I think "Proton" (I _still_ can't not use quotes for that name!) is probably a good target to test against, even for GOG releases, because it is something that Valve will theoretically support, and has less chance of updates and/or changes breaking things. Plus, it is open source, so there's no reason particular release tags can't be downloaded, compiled, and used. Or official wine releases. Or both.

I just quickly tested System Shock 2 with Proton 3.16-3 using my wrapper. It looks like it works but I wouldn't recommend it as it doesn't seem to perform any differently from regular Wine except that you can't change the display gamma if it's too dark/too bright (it does this by changing the system's display gamma settings, but this is not allowed by Proton).

It's good that Proton doesn't allow the display resolution to be changed since that can be a huge PITA but it would be nice if there was some way of configuring it to still allow display gamma changes, as there are a lot of games that need to do this - even some newer games.

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The Wine wrapper I made for it still works fine though :p

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Quoting: lejimsterI asked and apparently they've always built the wine part of Proton with debug stuff, Codeweaver developer Andrew Ekium posted this:
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So that could explain the file size difference, no worries. Pierre-Loup closed the bug anyway saying it was fixed and 3.16-3 beta has appeared on steam now. Just downloaded and had a quick test of that myself, so that seems to have solved that problem.

Yeah, I saw that. So it seems that prior to 3.7-7 Steam just wasn't updating it here for some reason. Anyway, it doesn't seem to be an issue any more at least & subsequent updates have been coming through just fine :)

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Well, that's the version I had prior to the release of 3.7-7, and since 3.7-6 was the current version at the time according to Steam that's what it was labelled as. I used it with several games before making that copy & Steam did not try updating it or otherwise give any indication that it was outdated.

That said, prior to using it I did have the Steam beta installed with the intention of trying out Proton but I never got around to it until after it was rolled out to the stable release (at which point I moved back to the stable branch), so it's possible that Steam downloaded an older version and then lost track of it somehow.

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Quoting: dubigrasuIDK, I kept all 3.7* Proton releases, and for all of them the wineserver binary is 3.3MB. Only starting with 3.16* the wineserver binary grew to 3.4MB.

I've done the same with every build since I started using it (which was at 3.7-6, when it was rolled into the stable client). The build I have is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wk0vm7qfqfdt51u/proton-3.7-6.tar.xz?dl=0

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Quoting: lejimsterUpdate: Yeah, just looked at DXVK's dll's and checked performance of a title I know well. Looks like they've been compiled in debug mode. I will open an issue on the proton bug tracker.

I'd guess given the huge increase in size for Proton in general with versions 3.7-7 and later this issue probably applies to the Proton as a whole & not just DXVK. e.g. Proton 3.7-6 is about 415MB (just the "dist" directory, sans the share/default_pfx and share/wine/gecko directories), whilst 3.7-7 and later come in at about 815MB. The wineserver binary for 3.7-6 is 478.8KB while for 3.7-7 and later it's 3.3MB+

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I noticed that Proton increased in size quite drastically with 3.7-7 (comparing the slightly modified versions I use for my wrappers it's about double the size of 3.7-6; compressed it's almost triple the size). And with 3.16-2 it seems to have gained a few hundred MBs more (the DXVK DLLs have ballooned to almost 300MB). Looks like it's possibly a repeat of this issue?

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Quoting: Power-Metal-GamesWhen launched, Steam is asking to install some dependences, tries to do it and says that packages are broken etc. At the and I get the same error that I mentioned.

That's a bit different then :P Try opening Synaptic Package Manager (it's installed by default on Mint but IIRC it needs to be installed separately on Ubuntu) and check for broken packages with Custom Filters --> Broken. You can try fixing them by doing Edit --> Fix Broken Packages

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Quoting: Power-Metal-GamesThis is just great! I imagine what will be in few months. Even Microsoft joined us.
Meanwhile, I can't even install Steam. I get the message: "You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libstdc++.so.6", blah, blah.. I tried everything that I find but nothing helps. Probably I destroyed my Ubuntu 18.04 by adding who knows how many different PPAs so maybe I should reinstall the OS and stop doing stupid things again.
Anyway, not a big deal because I work almost all the day, but I guess it's great when you see all this by yourself. :D

You probably just need to install some missing dependencies. I made a meta-package for Mint 19.x/*Ubuntu 18.04 to install most commonly required dependencies if you're interested in trying that & seeing if it helps: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_try_linux_repostrewrite/post334

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Also just to make sure as many people hear about it as possible: GOG are currently giving away Shadow Warrior 2 for the next ~42ish hours.

It's a shame that a native Linux version never happened (I'd have bought it long ago if it did), but now thanks to their giveaway I've made a Wine wrapper for it :)

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