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Can Heroic share proton versions with Steam/Bottles?
It feels a bit silly to install Proton in mutliple places. I tried adding a "Custom Proton Path" pointing to steam/steamapps/common/{protonversion}/proton, but that didn't cause it to show up in Heroic's Proton Manager. Nor did Heroic automatically find the installed proton versions when I set my Steam directory.
Let me know if what I'm assuming should be possible actually isn't.
5 Replies
ugly-tan•2y ago
Heroic already reads from Steam's Proton folders and Lutris's Wine-GE folders
ugly-tan•2y ago
red = heroic
green = lutris
yellow = steam
ugly-tan•2y ago
yes, don't use Proton (unless you have a specific reason to do so)
so the answer to the original question is "yes," but with the caveat of this being almost an XY problem
as an aside, a deduplicating file system like btrfs is useful for this issue
extended-salmonOP•2y ago
Update: it looks like Heroic IS seeing the Proton versions installed through Steam, and offers them when I go to install a game, but ISN'T stowing them In the Proton Manager. Bug report?
Also: they are not color-coded. Perhaps because I haven't installed any besides the steam ones yet?
Also: four responses in as many minutes? Wow, active community here.
ugly-tan•2y ago
I added the colors myself to illustrate it
the Proton manager is NOT for modifying installed proton versions in Steam. it is not based on what Steam provides. you shouldn't use it for the reasons explained above
it is not a bug. it's not intended to be a feature in the way you want it to be
nor really should it be