No, Steam or Proton do not need Wine installed.
No, Steam or Proton do not need Wine installed.
I encountered some issues while trying to run my preferred game. It seems I might have mixed things up during installation. After a few attempts, I managed to get it working again with a fresh setup and updated drivers. The process was a bit tricky, especially with the latest changes. For running Proton, it appears you might need to install it first or ensure compatibility with your current setup.
Proton functions independently; any required setup is handled automatically by Steam.
You haven’t mentioned any specific steps or issues yet. Could you share what you’ve tried so far? That way I can help pinpoint what might have caused the problem and suggest fixes.
I began with the built-in version 5.0.9, though I later switched to GE for better speed. On AW it provides significantly faster performance, and the rest of my limited game collection works just fine with native Linux clients or the default 5.0.9.
Wine may pull some dependencies in that are useful for proton, depending on your distribution. Like I believe some EA games need gnutls for networking, which I believe is a dependency for wine in Ubuntu. Don't quote me on that though as I haven't touched Ubuntu in quite some time to know for sure what Wine or Steam pulls in. Wine itself and its optional dependencies are not however required to just use proton. You can try adding PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to a games launch options in steam. Post the log it puts in your home folder here and we can see if anything looks off.
It seems the developers made a change that caused issues for users on Proton. Back to planning from scratch.