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Option to play native games on Proton instead

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ValveSoftware/Proton#1817 · opened 2018-10-26 by Rabcor · updated 2018-10-26 · 1 comments · github
RRabcor 2018-10-26 github

Feature Request

I would like to have an option to make a game install the windows version with proton instead of installing the linux native version.

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

I would like to have an option to make a game install the windows version with proton instead of installing the linux native version. The reason why users might want to do this is to possibly circumvent issues with bad ports.

Justification

Although it's fairly uncommon, there exist several cases where certain games will play better on proton/wine than on their native linux ports. Possible examples off the top of my head would include witcher 2 and dungeon defenders.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-10-26 github

Hello @Rabcor, this feature request is already being tracked at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5638. Closing as a duplicate.