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Lutris doesn't proton variations such as Proton-EM? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Hi guys! I am changing distro and am kinda settling on KDE-Neon (ubuntu based), as this was pretty reliable for me back in the day. So far it's been all great, but I'm wondering why Lutris (which came pre-configured and untouchable in a way in Nobara) won't detect additional proton installs. I'm using ProtonPlus with Lutris chosen, and I have installed for example Proton-EM. I can see ProtonPlus did download and add a folder on my user:

/home/my-user/.local/share/lutris/runners/proton/

However this doesn't seem to get Lutris to show it. I only get wine-ge-8.26, Proton-GE Latest and the system Wine. Why is Lutris not catching the Proton-EM? What should I do?

Thanks!

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[–] gonzo028@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use https://davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/ to manage my wine versions in lutris.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks. Which folder does it install them to? Is it the wine one or proton?

[–] gonzo028@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can select the folder. It recognizes the installed versions. You can even install it in steam.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks. I meant I don't want to choose the incorrect folder, as this seems to be an important distinction they're trying to make. I believe I have read the folder structure varies depending on where the wine/proton is installed.

So...which folder does your protonup-qt install to? I understand it should show it on the UI? Mine for Lutris auto-chooses the wine folder. But Lutris doesn't see it.

[–] gonzo028@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just try it out. You can't do it wrong.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Just for clarification. In ProtonPlus, with Lutris selected on the top left, I went and clicked to install "Proton-GE-Latest, GE-Proton10-26, EM-10.0.32, EM-10.0.31, Proton-10.0.3, DXVK v2.7.1, VK3D-Proton v3.0b, VK3D-Lutris v2.14". All of these. However, in Lutris - any game's configuration - Runner tab, I get only: System (9.0 Ubuntu), wine-ge-8.26, and Proton-GE-Latest. There's quite a lot of them missing. And I don't know what triggers the ones it finds and why the others are missing.

[–] dangrousperson@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

do you have the flatpak version of Lutris installed by chance? If yes, the correct path would be:

~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/proton/

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Good one! But I think it's the Ubuntu repo package.

In ProtonPlus, with Lutris selected on the top left, I went and clicked to install “Proton-GE-Latest, GE-Proton10-26, EM-10.0.32, EM-10.0.31, Proton-10.0.3, DXVK v2.7.1, VK3D-Proton v3.0b, VK3D-Lutris v2.14”. All of these. However, in Lutris - any game’s configuration - Runner tab, I get only: System (9.0 Ubuntu), wine-ge-8.26, and Proton-GE-Latest. There’s quite a lot of them missing. And I don’t know what triggers the ones it finds and why the others are missing.

EDIT: Sigh...Since this is KDE Neon, running on Ubuntu 24.04...the Ubuntu repo version of Lutris is v0.5.14...From 2023. I guess that might have something to do. I'll install the flatpak first.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you have Steam installed, try putting them in ~/.local/share/Steam/compatilitytools.d.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks. I'll try that a bit later.