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Any Linux gamers here having problems with the new Steam UI? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

I'm not sure how many of you here use Linux for gaming, but there might be someone who can help me.

With my friends, we play a few games that, based on the place I'm writing in, are assumed to be pirated copies. We use something called an "Online fix" for Steam, which tricks it into thinking we're playing a different game in order to access its API and play multiplayer together.

How do I actually do this under Linux? I use Bottles, which allows me to play Windows games. I've installed a Windows version of Steam through it, and it works quite poorly, but it gets the job done (or rather, it used to). Basically, I just have to start it up to be able to play. The problem arose recently when Valve released a new update that significantly changed the Steam UI.

After the update was applied, I encountered several issues:

When Steam starts, a strange symbol appears on the screen, which stays on top of every window or application, and it's quite annoying.
Steam itself started crashing. And when that happens, the game crashes logically as well.

Before the update, I had no problems, and now I don't know what to do. To play these particular games, I need to have Steam running. If I run the native Linux version, it works, but the game can't detect that Steam is running since it's not actually inside the Wine container.

EDIT: I think I found a solution for now. Adding -vgui will launch the old Steam UI.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

.....why would you use bottles to play windows games and not just use Proton? If you don't know Proton is a incredible tool built right into steam and it works with most games. You can check Protondb for comparability with the games you want to play

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man, Proton itself is just Wine + DXVK + VKD3D and maybe some minor tweaks. How would using Proton help my situation? I mean, if I was playing a legal copy of these games - yeah, running them directly on Steam would help, but these games are pirated copies, dude.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can also run pirated copies in Steam, you wouldn't need Steam multiple times and it would fix those issues you're having

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Dude you can run pirated copies through steam using Proton and fix your issues. Chill dude

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Guys, I tried to add one of these games to Steam using the "Add Non-Steam game..." button. At first the game started, but for some reason it doesn't allow me to connect to the Xbox server, which is weird because it works with Bottles... The game I'm talking about is Grounded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Proton is meant specifically for steam games. Proton developers recommend not using it for other games, and just using wine. Also if you use steam to run games managing the wine prefix because very annoying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Works very well. I'll even run non game apps through proton

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@lemmy note that Proton is just Valve's customized version of existing software called Wine, which is the usual way to run Windows software on Linux. Please try to avoid handing control of it to Valve by making Valve's version the default one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying to just hand it over. For his specific issue this is the way to fix it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it really does. I've been playing Live For Speed for years on linux, which is a windows game.

I found out early on that Proton Experimental works the best for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can do so, but that doesn't make it the best idea. There's a reason the devs say not to. Steam makes it very difficult to manage prefixes, installing dependencies and running exe's under the prefix is very awkward. There's really no benefit over using Lutris or Bottles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup, there are 2 main reasons I use Bottles.

I have only 1 bottle (wine prefix) and I put all of my games there. This means, I don't waste extra space for a separate wineprefix for every single game (I have a lot of games), and I don't have to set up a prefix every time I install a new one. I only had to install dependencies and set environment parameters once, and then every single game just works.
Bottles runs with Flatpak (sandboxed), which gives me an additional layer of security. We all know that downloading and running a pirated EXEs are not always safe.

Everything was working so well until this recent Steam update...