I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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    71 year ago

    Hmm, I’m a big Apex player myself on Linux, Nobara. Almost no issues for over a year now. What version of Proton are you using?

    • @cybersandwich
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      1 year ago

      Ive tried so many, but right now I am on Proton Experimental.

      It’s been working, hilariously, since I made my post.

      It looks like the issue is with how it updates. The errors I get are all failed to load .pak. the fix usually requires me to validate the integrity of game files, where it inevitably finds some files that fails validation and redownloads them. The irritating thing is that that doesn’t always work. Sometimes it just stays broken.

      This last attempt at fixing it I validated(needed to download some failed files), completely exited steam, relaunched, new update, exited steam, relaunched, new update, exited steam, relaunch and finally it had no updates. I did one last validation and launched and its worked since then.

      Edit: so it said there was an update after my last session. I updated. The next time I launched (5min ago) I got an error:

      I did the “verify game files” and wouldn’t ya know it. Failed to validate 2 files.

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        21 year ago

        Ah, I actually had a similar issue a while ago. It requires me to do the same verification fix too.