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.

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 4:49 PM

Heroic already reads from Steam's Proton folders and Lutris's Wine-GE folders

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 4:50 PM

red = heroic
green = lutris
yellow = steam

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 4:51 PM

yes, don't use Proton (unless you have a specific reason to do so)

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 4:52 PM

so the answer to the original question is "yes," but with the caveat of this being almost an XY problem

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 4:56 PM

as an aside, a deduplicating file system like btrfs is useful for this issue

nursing-limeOP•12/15/23, 4:58 PM

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.

Nnursing-lime Update: it looks like Heroic IS seeing the Proton versions installed through Ste...

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 4:58 PM

I added the colors myself to illustrate it

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 4:59 PM

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

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 5:00 PM

it is not a bug. it's not intended to be a feature in the way you want it to be

nursing-lime•12/15/23, 5:00 PM

nor really should it be

Can Heroic share proton versions with Steam/Bottles?

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