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[Feature Request] Allow overriding the proton version per game

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ValveSoftware/Proton#1312 · opened 2018-09-08 by Sbte · updated 2018-09-08 · 3 comments · github
SSbte 2018-09-08 github

Feature Request

I confirm:

  • [x] that I haven't found another request for this feature.
  • [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available that
    contain this feature already.

Description

In the Steam options we can choose "Use this tool instead of game-specific selections from Steam" to use an alternative version of Proton. It would be nice to be able to select this per game.

Justification [optional]

It seems like for every game Proton is downloaded separately (I have to download 300+ MB for every game every time Proton is updated). Since this is happening anyway, it would be nice to be able to select which version is downloaded per game.

Also, if all games work fine with the default selection, but you want to try one game with the latest version, updating all of them to the newer version might actually break games that worked fine with the default version.

Risks [optional]

Actually reduces risks, because working games are not updated to an unstable version.

References [optional]

Vvanyasem 2018-09-08 github

@jarrard ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5638. Your suggestion is unrelated, and is, in fact, a duplicate

Jjarrard 2018-09-08 github

Ok cheers,.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-09-08 github

Hello @Sbte, this is a feature request for the Steam client rather than Proton itself, so I've gone ahead and transferred this feature request to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5740.

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