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flat-fuchsia
HGL can't find Steam Proton/Wine
Hi, I have a general problem - meaning that happens with any game install.
I have a Gentoo based linux distro with native Steam and HGL from flatpak.
There is no Wine selectable - although I have confirmed with another person using the same OS he did not need to install a specific Wine (by using Wine manager of HGL), yet Steam's Proton-Next is available out of the box for any game.
What may be the reason? How can it be made use that? How to diagnose?
8 Replies
causal-orange•3y ago
Don’t use Proton because it’s for Steam games only especially on desktop Linux. Use Wine-GE via the wine manager in Heroic
flat-fuchsiaOP•3y ago
Even so, why can't it use it for me, while it does for other system?
causal-orange•3y ago
Does it really matter? You’re more than likely going to have problems with it anyway
flat-fuchsiaOP•3y ago
This means there is a setup problem and I wish to have it properly set
So, please, indulge me, try to assist to my issue ...
causal-orange•3y ago
The official HGL stance is that you should not use Proton in Heroic. I would personally make an exception for the Steam Deck but not desktop Linux of any flavor. I will not be able to assist you in using Proton in Heroic on Gentoo
flat-fuchsiaOP•3y ago
I don't need assistance with using that per se, but just having it available in HGL
Let's rephrase it. On two similar systems, why would it "see" Steam's specific Wine/Proton distros on one of them, while it can't "see" the same on the another?
causal-orange•3y ago
start here and dig into the folders. https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/How-To:-Wine-and-Proton
flat-fuchsiaOP•3y ago
Been there. What's odd: HGL has a default path to look for it: /home/user/.steam/steam
That I have, in theory it is allowed to it as seen in faltseal as ~/.steam/steam
HGL won't accept ~/.steam/steam path format
flatseal won't accept /home/user/.steam/steam path
When I use HGL to set a fefault Steam path it goes to /home/user/.steam, but does not show anything inside, like it has no access there...
Any idea?