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I got my Steam Deck 3 days ago and I just started exploring it. Given that I already have a large library of games on Epic Games, one of the first thing I did was installing the Heroic launcher. It worked well for some of the games (and not for others... like Hyper Light Drifter ;_; if someone knows how to configure it please help me). What I'm not understanding is: why do I need to have different proton versions installed for each game? Eg: one game requires GE 7.32 (what's GE by the way???), another game version 7.45, another one 7.20 etc etc etc... Why? I already had the latest version (8.0) of proton installed on my Steam Deck, shouldn't it be enough to run all other games being the latest version? šŸ«¤

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[ā€“] Badland9085@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You can force a specific Proton version on each game, though Iā€™m not sure (off the top of my head at least) if that would help with not installing duplicates. Iirc best practice for using Wine for games is to have separate installations to avoid having conflicting dependencies, though Iā€™m not sure if Steam does that.

Also, GE is short for Glorious Eggroll, which is the name of the dev who creates custom Proton distributions. People refer to these distributions simply as Proton GE or just GE. Ref: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

[ā€“] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why is your account marked as a bot?

[ā€“] IceMan@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

You can select it yourself on registration in some instances. Probably running some automation from that acc.

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