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Proton defaults to Windows 7?

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ValveSoftware/Proton#8158 · opened 2024-10-12 by marco-calautti · updated 2024-10-12 · 1 comments · github
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Mmarco-calautti 2024-10-12 github

Feature Request

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Description

It looks to me that when a non-steam game is added to Steam, and the corresponding proton prefix is created, the default setting is to specify Windows 7 as the Windows version. This breaks many games that check the windows version to verify DirectX 12 is supported. GIven Windows 7 is EOL since 2020, I would bump the default Windows version for new prefixes to Windows 10/11

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-10-12 github

Hello @marco-calautti, Proton has been using a win10 wineprefix when doing a fresh prefix setup since Proton 5.0.

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