• MasterNerd@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I guess this could also be based on the distro you use as well as your graphics card. For me, I use EndeavourOS, which is very close to base arch, so I had to do some extra setup to get proton working on it. For some reason, Proton refused to work on the Arch repo’s Steam package, so I had to use the flatpak version instead

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      3 months ago

      Pure Arch here, no issues with Proton whatsoever.

      Any chance this could have been related to EndeavourOS in any way? Like with something pre-installed?

      I’m just being curious and throwing ideas here.

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        3 months ago

        The only thing really preinstalled is basic stuff like desktop environments and a few tools to help with updates and manage the system (eos-update, etc). Even almost all the package repositories are the ones maintained by arch.

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      3 months ago

      I’m on EndeavourOS with an Nvidia gpu. I’ve not had to do anything extra for the the version of proton that comes with steam to work besides install the os with the Nvidia proprietary drivers. And then running eos-update --aur --nvidia

      I did notice that I got a lot of screen tearing if using Wayland and that more recent versions of proton didn’t work if either Force Composition Pipeline or Force Full Composition Pipeline were enabled; which should have fixed the screentearing so I just use x11 for now.

      There are some things I did to make my experience better however. Like installing an proton-ge. Here is a list of what I installed.

      nvidia-dkms
      nvidia-settings
      libva-nvidia-driver # required by vlc to play mkv files with nvidia gpu
      nvidia-tweaks # https://github.com/ventureoo/nvidia-tweaks
      lib32-nvidia-utils
      gamemode
      proton-ge-custom-bin
      lib32-libudev0-shim # fixes Steam runtime's super old 32 bit version of libnm
      lib32-libnm # required if using systemd 253.5-2 or newer
      

      I would also install nvidia-dracut-hook if you are using both Nvidia and dracut. Dracut is the default on recent versions on endeavorOS.

      For proton ge, I also added myself to the games group with

      sudo usermod $USER -a -G games
      

      I also like to prepend the following to my games launch options in steam

      gamemoderun PROTON\_CONFIG=dxr11,dxr PROTON\_ENABLE\_NVAPI=1 PROTON\_HIDE\_NVIDIA\_GPU=0 VK\_ICD\_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia\_icd.json VKD3D\_CONFIG=dxr11,dxr VKD3D\_DISABLE\_EXTENSIONS=VK\_KHR\_present\_id,VK\_KHR\_present\_wait VKD3D\_FEATURE\_LEVEL=12\_1 VKD3D\_SHADER\_MODEL=6\_6
      

      And I set proton-ge as my default proton version on the steam options.