Windows Games on Steam for Linux. [Proton client Testing grounds]

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Putting this here incase anybody wants to experiment with non steam games and proton

Make a copy of the default prefix somewhere ( ~/.proton in this case )

cp -r /home/dje4321/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Proton\ 3.7/dist/share/default_pfx ~/.proton

This prefix is where all of your specific changes to proton should be made for stuff like winetricks, etc. This will preserve the game specific prefixs or generic wine prefixs.

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=/home/dje4321/.proton/ /home/dje4321/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Proton\ 3.7/proton waitforexitandrun ./game.exe

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH needs to be a absolute path to whereever you copied the prefix too.

replace ./game.exe with the path to your executable and it should launch it like normal. Some games might fail any steam specific DRM checks since it cant connect back to steam properly.

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