Force Proton on Windows host.

protonclosed Feature Request

ValveSoftware/Proton#2475 · opened 2019-03-30 by yurikoles · updated 2020-04-09 · 5 comments · github

Yyurikoles 2019-03-30 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

It may be good to have option to force Proton on Windows host.

Justification [optional]

There is a lot of old titles that work incorrectly on modern Windows, e.g. 10.

References [optional]

#1197

CCuriousTommy 2019-03-30 github

I was under the impression that (official) wine does work on Windows. Has that changed recently?

Yyurikoles 2019-03-30 github

Yes, it does work.

FFrontear 2019-03-31 github

Question:

There is a lot of old titles that work incorrectly on modern Windows, e.g. 10.

Do you have any source which confirms that somehow, Wine actually makes these games work better than using the default compatibility mode?

LLeopard1907 2019-03-31 github

Dual boot to Linux then in the meantime.

?ghost 2019-04-03 github

Another way of going about it is to get the older Windows and install that to a vm making Wine/Proton unnecessary. Its a different point if Steam cannot be installed to the OS though.

Nothing extracted yet.