<betawaffle>
oh hmm, i got it working with an older version of proton
<betawaffle>
has anyone got a steam game to run under proton in nixos?
2021-01-30
<mtr>
I could list a good number of games that just fail to start, some with proton, some native linux
<Yaniel>
other than the latest proton version being unusable for now
2021-01-21
<{^_^}>
#100655 (by nyanloutre, 13 weeks ago, open): steam: Proton 5.13 does not launch because of steam runtime
2021-01-18
<dutchie>
yeah, i tried a couple of versions in the steam picker (because I had to manually tell it to use proton anyway) but i didn't get as far as trying that version
<dutchie>
ooh, i didn't know there was a workaround for proton not working
<{^_^}>
#100655 (by nyanloutre, 13 weeks ago, open): steam: Proton 5.13 does not launch because of steam runtime
<fendor_>
does someone have recommendations to debug proton not really working on nixos?
2021-01-11
<shapr>
mikroskeem: yeah, I was hoping... I've had success with other windows-only games via Proton
2021-01-06
<leo60228>
proton logs don't have anything outside of the ordinary except for one line
<leo60228>
games in proton that use d3d complain about me not having directx 11 drivers
2020-12-24
<pax-12>
how should I go about forcing steam-run on the steam proton games?
<pax-12>
also the games are running with proton
2020-12-23
<clever>
there are settings in steam itself, to allow using proton with games that arent in the whitelist of "known working"
<clever>
for me, i just run steam, and proton is fully automatic
<siraben>
What's the way to install proton?
2020-12-18
<{^_^}>
#100655 (by nyanloutre, 9 weeks ago, open): steam: Proton 5.13 does not launch because of steam runtime
2020-12-15
<{^_^}>
#100655 (by nyanloutre, 8 weeks ago, open): steam: Proton 5.13 does not launch because of steam runtime
<cirno-999>
what are some things that still need to be done to fully solve steam proton 5.13?
2020-12-14
<fendor>
Having troubles with steam and proton on nixos, When launching a game I get an error message "Error creating Direct3D9 object". Until some update ago, this used to work fine, ideas how I can debug this?
2020-12-10
<alienpirate5>
possible to use the NixOS wine build infrastructure to build Proton?
2020-12-08
<alienpirate5>
also I'm already on proton 5.0-10
<Yaniel>
proton 5.3 is broken
<Yaniel>
switch to proton 5.0-10
2020-11-15
<srhb>
Sorry, I have no experience debugging Proton games.
<connelly>
srhb: yes, I tried it with launch options for proton and it didn't change much --- it's "Among Us"
<srhb>
connelly: Is it a proton title?
2020-10-31
<{^_^}>
#100655 (by nyanloutre, 2 weeks ago, open): steam: Proton 5.13 does not launch because of steam runtime
<Akira[m]>
I think latest Steam proton is just borked
2020-10-30
<Akira[m]>
I thought I did have --proton in the launch options...
<Yaniel>
steam uses proton for games that don't have a native linux build
<Yaniel>
risk of rain 2 works perfecctly here in proton
<Akira[m]>
--proton?
<Akira[m]>
and with proton?
<Akira[m]>
I can get it running, but not really with nvidia prime or proton
<selfsymmetric-mu>
jmercouris: It's a piece of cake. Akira[m]: Proton works perfectly.
<Akira[m]>
is proton working?
2020-09-14
<vifon>
clever: FWIW, via Proton it works flawlessly. Thanks for the help nonetheless.
<vifon>
I guess I'll check with Proton now. :/
2020-09-01
<zuserm>
does anyone know where I can get the command "sftp-server"? It's expected by a fork of proton I'm trying to build, and google is unhelpful
2020-07-16
<Yaniel>
I got some games to work by forcing proton to use wined3d instead
2020-06-21
<Athas>
These days I am playing Original Sin 2 running in Steam Proton on NixOS, and it runs beautifully. That's quite far from the environment the developers intended!
2020-05-23
<ldlework>
ah yeah the steam-managed proton worked for me outta the box
<njha>
proton, also made by codeweavers but funded by valve
<MichaelRaskin>
The office-souped up one, not to mix up with the later games-souped up one called Proton
2020-05-14
<eadwu[m]>
ldlework: I haven't used Proton, but it should work just launching it from what I read on different subreddits, maybe the envs aren't passed?
2020-05-13
<ldlework>
eadwu[m]: Got a clue how you would get a steam game, that's running via Proton, the wine thing provided by Steam's 'platform support', working via nvidia-offload?
2020-04-30
<clever>
srk: everything else worth playing just works under proton+steam
<clever>
srk: space engineers and elite dangerous are the only 2 games that fail under proton and i sometimes want to play
<clever>
morgrimm: proton is steam's fork of wine, that has been improved to support most games, and is baked into the linux steam launcher
<morgrimm>
Proton?
<srk>
it is but have you tried proton? :D
2020-04-12
<clever>
virtusviri7321[m: and proton works fine too
2020-03-09
<Taneb>
Running Shenzen IO in Proton segfaults after a while for me...
<drakonis>
actually it does work with proton.
2020-02-01
<philipp[m]>
In this specific case I had a look at what they were doing and it seems like they are just using libwine and messing things up. I think just forcing the windows version and using proton is easier.
<philipp[m]>
Honestly: Proton nowadays works often much better than bad ports.
<MmeQuignon>
I tried proton and it works well
2020-01-14
<selfsymmetric-mu>
That did it. Now to see if it helps Proton to stop crashing so much.
2019-12-15
<clever>
but steam and proton have mostly solved that
2019-12-12
<clever>
steam and proton suppot have been great on nixos, so i havent had as big of a need to redo all of that
2019-11-21
<clever>
they changed the version of the unity engine, and it conflicts with proton, so the mouse pointer moves violently, every time i click
2019-11-01
<clever>
co1or: ive got chromium (and youtube), plus steam (and via proton, many windows games) working just fine on nixos
2019-10-12
<AmandaC>
( or proton )
<AmandaC>
avn: proton / wine's not quite there yet, so I just have a windows rig I leave hooked up to the livingroom TV and run steam / epic games on and use moonlight or steam IHS to stream the games to my linux laptop. :P
<avn>
clever: proton is pre-packaged wine as I guess
<clever>
avn: or proton!
2019-08-30
<evanjs>
freeman42x[NixOS: I just use the one that comes with steam lol. You can turn off “only run with compatible games” so it’ll just try to run any non Linux games using proton, etc
<freeman42x[NixOS>
evanjs, how did you install Proton on NixOS?
<evanjs>
freeman42x[NixOS: yeah typically you cant just go and “build” stuff on nix without opening a nix-shell or writing an expression. Doesn’t look like we have it on nixpkgs, unfortunately. For that stuff, I’ve just been using steam+proton and sometimes just steam-run and those seem to work great so far.
2019-08-25
<clever>
the nixpkgs winetricks is a different wine version, and the proton winetricks isnt patched
<clever>
only time its been nixos specific for me, was when i had to run winetricks on the proton prefix from steam
2019-08-03
<Yaniel>
proton works for most windows games either out of the box or with some tweaks
2019-07-15
<Church->
Hmm, anyone gotten FF14 to work with proton on NixOS?
2019-06-14
<clever>
hyper_ch2: proton is valves fork of wine, it has steam integration and improvements to help with compatability
<hyper_ch2>
clever: proton?
<clever>
hyper_ch2: proton
2019-06-09
<clever>
ive found proton to work well within steam
2019-06-04
<slabity>
tjay: Steam works fine. Proton too
2019-03-27
<scott>
maybe wine or proton don't like NTFS for some reason. seems plausible
<scott>
tilpner: AlexRice[m]: found a weird solution to my proton problems... i had all my games on an NTFS drive, and moving Castle Crashers and The Witness to my root ext4 drive made them work
2019-03-23
<scott>
i can think of one potential weirdness: the steam library i have The Witness installed in is on NTFS and the proton wine prefix is placed on the same filesystem. maybe wine dislike that?
<scott>
no, i think steam installs each proton version once globally, not per-game
<AlexRice[m]>
does steam bundle proton into the executable?
<MichaelRaskin>
Yes, Proton is their branch of Wine
<scott>
if it's more specific, i don't know how to launch proton games. there's just windows exes in the game dir
<scott>
but all proton games fail
<scott>
does anyone know where to start with debugging Steam problems? i can't run Steam Play / proton games and it's not clear why
2019-03-16
<blumenkranz>
Proton games manage to play some audio, in particular. The others seem to get soft-crashed.
<blumenkranz>
srhb: I am trying this on Dota 2, Proton games and RetroArch. Basically, the games do run, but they fail to render anything.
2019-03-03
<clever>
Myrl-saki: in my case, i'm setting an env var, that causes proton to enable winedebug
<Myrl-saki>
optirun is working for a game that's run under proton, from Steam.
2019-02-21
<clever>
proton works great for some games, practically seamless
2019-02-16
<clever>
proton based games also get upset of you -9 the wrong thing, and then steam will never register the game as "closed"
<clever>
mek42_laptop: after skyrim finished downloading, it started to download proton 3.16 beta
<clever>
none of the .net based games ive previously played work under proton
2019-02-15
<iqubic>
tilpner: I'm using the steam client to manage starting my game via proton. Where would I move my fonts to? And for that matter, where in the filesystem are the fonts that I'd be copying?
<iqubic>
tilpner: I can't think of any reason why a steam game running in proton would fail to use system fonts as a fallback.
<iqubic>
Does anyone have any idea why I might be getting these font issues in Steam with Proton.
<iqubic>
Because this Steam game, running under proton is giving me missing symbol issues.
<iqubic>
Mainly I'm just running into issues with Steam Games running under proton have font issues. Basically it's a missing glyph issue.
<manveru>
laas: i use the proton that's part of steam
<laas>
I don't suppose anyone here has experiencing building Valve's Proton?
<iqubic>
I see. For some reason this particular Unity game only works in proton.
<Yaniel>
no, I haven't even had a chance to try proton
<Yaniel>
never used proton so I don't know either
<iqubic>
I'm not sure how to run notepad in proton.
<Yaniel>
anything that runs in proton
<Yaniel>
wine as in proton
<iqubic>
We are talking about missing glyphs in my games. And this is a proton game.
<Yaniel>
also are we talking about native linux games or games running through proton
2019-02-12
<fearlessKim[m]>
clever: fantastic the new proton version works !
<clever>
there is also a checkbox to force allowing proton with "unsupported" games
<clever>
on the main settings page, under steam play, you can set the proton version
<clever>
fearlessKim[m]: try choosing a different version of proton in steam?
<clever>
fearlessKim[m]: it might be that proton is failing to start, do you have 32bit dri and 32bit pulse?
<fearlessKim[m]>
even with PROTON_LOG=1 but that's a start
<clever>
fearlessKim[m]: with PROTON_LOG=1 set, then proton will emit normal WINEDEBUG style logs to ~/steam-${GAMEID}.log
<clever>
fearlessKim[m]: the other thing you can try, is to open the properties for the game, set launch options, `PROTON_LOG=1 %command%`
<fearlessKim[m]>
clever: it's my first and only proton game so far
<clever>
fearlessKim[m]: first, does any other proton game work? does steam print something on stdout when you run it?
<fearlessKim[m]>
trying to get "into the breach" working with proton. Nothing happens when trying to start from steam. How can I get the proton binary to start "breach.exe" ? any advice/manual on how to debug proton etc.
2019-02-11
<etu>
I thought they added an option to run things through proton even if there's a linux native version
<iqubic>
1) They all use Mono 2) Proton doesn't let me run any of them.
<iqubic>
Proton doesn't make this work any better.
<etu>
iqubic: Try to run it with proton :p
2019-02-05
<blumenkranz>
iqubic: Probably not an answer, but Proton games generally work fairly well.
2019-02-03
<clever>
iqubic: proton has been patched to fix most of those issues
<iqubic>
How does proton work?
<srhb>
Try playing it through proton. :-P
2019-01-31
<clever>
iddt: when you try to install a windows game, steam will also download the pre-built ELF files for proton
<iddt>
clever: so installing steam on nixos automatically installs proton, and it just does the right thing when playing a windows game? (in general, i mean)
<clever>
iddt: steam now has proton support (a fork of wine) and a number of "windows only" games just work on nixos now
2019-01-29
<elvishjerricco>
Alright. Now to test out proton...
2019-01-28
<Church->
Hey how well is Steam's proton working? At all?
2018-11-30
<m0rphism>
is there a straight-forward way to to install nvidia-drivers version 396.54? They seem to be required for running SteamVR via Proton (wine fork).
2018-11-26
<clever>
one anoying thing, steam wont let me run the windows version under proton
2018-11-12
<drakonis1>
ah wine proton
<jabranham>
clever: they've also got that new thing that lets linux run all/most "windows only" games. I think it's called proton? Just in case you hadn't heard of it
2018-11-06
<etu>
I have steam and tried some proton stuff
2018-11-04
<aanderse>
with steam proton it eliminated the need for that hack entirely, and now everything just works great :)
<aanderse>
i have a kodi plugin which adds my steam games to the menu. before proton i had a hack to run both windows steam via wine and regular steam, that sucked
<infinisil>
Never tried proton on NixOS, is it packaged and stuff?
<aanderse>
yangm97: <3 proton
<yangm97>
are proton games playing fine?
2018-11-02
<aanderse>
ottidmes: man i'm loving steam proton. got a whole bunch of windows games running perfectly
2018-10-17
<ashkitten>
how can i install mingw-w64 on my nixos machine for building proton?
<clever>
only bug i saw with proton was failing to find python3 in PATH, which has been fixed in nixos-unstable
<clever>
aleph-: yeah, proton just works, for games that are compatible
<aleph->
clever: How about getting steams proton running?
<clever>
mkaito: ive not tried packaging proton, but the proton within steam works
<mkaito>
anyone given a shot to packaging Proton?
2018-09-15
<Ashy>
yeah, proton means i'm finally gonna kill the win10 drive on the gaming desktop
<trevthedev>
would be nice if xact existed with proton
<Ashy>
ah right, you're playing with proton, nice
<trevthedev>
am using it for morrowind with proton so i can play with mgso
<elvishjerricco>
Speaking of steam, has anyone tried to get its new steam play / proton stuff working?
2018-09-14
<samueldr>
and I don't know about proton
2018-09-10
<Yaniel>
natively or with the proton thingie
2018-09-01
<aanderse>
anyone try steam proton (wine) yet?
<{^_^}>
[nixpkgs] @srhb merged pull request #45855 → steam: Add python3 to runtime for steam play / proton → https://git.io/fACR0
2018-08-31
<{^_^}>
[nixpkgs] @pstn opened pull request #45855 → steam: Add python3 to runtime for steam play / proton → https://git.io/fACR0
2018-08-24
<philipp[m]>
Trying to close down on an issue: Anybody here that already player around wifh proton (new steam play) and had issues with the games not capturing the input properly on nixos?
<ashkitten>
it updates the runtime to the beta, i'm assuming you want it because proton
<elvishjerricco>
I wonder how hard it'll be to get Steam's new Proton stuff working on NixOs
<Drakonis[m]>
sounds like a proton problem
<ashkitten>
i haven't checked, but there's a related issue on proton gh
2018-08-23
<ashkitten>
steam can download proton fine
<Drakonis[m]>
its that there's steam the runtime and proton itself
<tertle||eltret>
Drakonis[m]: hopefully someone will make a .nix to accomidate the requirements for Proton
<tertle||eltret>
i hadnt heard of proton
<Drakonis[m]>
well, looks like proton will be a pain in the ass
<Drakonis[m]>
something worth doing, creating a package for proton itself
<Drakonis[m]>
wine proton unfortunately has extra deps not covered
<trevthedev>
also steamos has proton as long as you enable beta
<Yardanico>
Yaniel, you also need a pretty recent version because proton basically uses DXVK for DX10/11
<Yardanico>
Well, NixOS sadly doesn't contain latest nvidia drivers so I can't use Proton anyway (it requires recent nvidia drivers with vulkan fixes because it uses dxvk)
<trevthedev>
proton is a fork of wine that steam native has if you're in the beta
<manveru>
proton, the text editor?
<trevthedev>
so has anyone here gotten proton to work on NixOS?