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- Comment on Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page 1 day ago:
While I don’t why Valve did this, if your Steam Replay is starting arguments, it’s time to kick the arguing party from the Family share lmao
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
Huh, expected more from the NBC.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
tips fedora
M’lady Services Limited - Comment on The Talos Principle: Reawakened | More Than a Remaster | Coming Early 2025 1 week ago:
Oof, sorry to hear.
At least you have loooots of backlog to play if you eventually decide to get another! - Comment on The Talos Principle: Reawakened | More Than a Remaster | Coming Early 2025 1 week ago:
Hope they support VR with this remaster.
- Comment on The Talos Principle: Reawakened | More Than a Remaster | Coming Early 2025 1 week ago:
Very Happy to see this, TP1 has my favorite set pieces of all time (the desert levels in special) and if they’re already held super well throughout the years, can’t wait to see them remastered, and with a new chapter to boot!!!
Just hope the move to UE5 doesn’t introduce the typical shader stutters 😬
- Comment on Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape 1 week ago:
- Comment on Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now! 2 weeks ago:
Yell that you have exclusive CCTV footage of him and post those fever-like AI video continuations instead.
- Comment on Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now! 2 weeks ago:
This MF wrote “Delay” and “Deny” on his bullets just because.
I’m sure even the people who do actually have info about him are happy to stay quiet. - Comment on I will admit I had a nerdgasm at the portable pilet mini consoles from soulscircuit 2 weeks ago:
Contender for the worst headline I’ve read in weeks.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
I’m not ready for Moovid…
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
Man, a shot of Vodka at 40% has me questioning my life choices, I cannot imagine taking a shot of this goddamn paint thinner holy shit
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s exactly because of setups like this that I’m excited for the SC2.
I can’t believe we settled with joysticks for camera movement for so long. I don’t think there’s any other company around trying to challenge this standard. - Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 5 weeks ago:
Ok, I think we might be speaking about different things here, so let me try to clear it up.
Click the little ‘Games’ tab just above the search bar in your library, on the pop-up check ‘Tools’ and uncheck ‘Games’, then to the right of it, click the play icon to only show currently installed Tools. It’ll look something like this:
First we have the ‘Steam Linux Runtimes’. These are used to run Native Linux games.
I don’t think these get uninstalled automatically, but Steam will make sure to download the necessary one when a game needs it, so if you’re really strapped for space, you can just uninstall the runtimes and Steam will figure it out next time.
Next, we have the Proton versions. These are used to run Windows games.
While technically you should only need one of these, some games run better with some versions, some with others, so in a few scenarios Steam might automatically download and install a specific version when you launch a game that has been vetted by Valve. You can control what version gets used by clicking the Steam logo in the top-left corner of your client > Settings > Compatibility > Enable Steam Play for all other titles > Select one in ‘Run other titles with’.
This will make it so any game that doesn’t have a Proton version defined by Valve use the version you selected.
This includes games Non-Steam games you add to Steam.Now if you want to ignore the recommended versions and force games to use a version of your choosing, you can do so by right-clicking the game > Properties > Compatibility > Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool.
However, do so at your own risk, as said before, some games might not work so well with a version other than their default, so I’d leave this alone unless you’re having issues with a specific game (or are really, really, really strapped for space)
As is the case above, I don’t think these will get uninstalled automatically, so if you want, you can uninstall all them right now and Steam will figure it out next time you launch a game.Now, for Proton Prefixes.
I think these are what you meant when you were saying “Runtimes” earlier.
If you go into your Steam folder at ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/ (path for Arch Linux, might be different on other distros/Steam Deck/Flatpak/Snap) and peek into the ‘compatdata’ folder, you see tooons of folders with random numbers inside.
These are Proton Prefixes, and these hold files and other bits and bobs the games need to run under Proton. If you’re familiar with Wine Prefixes, it’s the same principle.Steam manages these automatically, and will delete prefixes from uninstalled games.
Non-Steam games that you remove from your library will have their prefixes deleted too.
It’s important to note that these prefixes act as “Virtual Drives” for the game to interact with. They simulate the C: drive of your typical Windows install, including profile folders, AppData, Roaming, all that jazz.
What does that mean? THAT THEIR HOLD YOUR SAVE DATA.
While most (keyword: ‘most’) Steam games have cloud saves and thus can be uninstalled and reinstalled without consequence, this definitely does not apply to Non-Steam games, so make sure to backup your saves/mods/other stuff you don’t want to lose BEFORE removing a Non-Steam game from your library.To explore the files inside your prefixes more easily, check this:
Each folder is named after the game’s App ID. For Non-Steam games, a random ID is generated.
The easiest way to correlate the IDs with games (IMO) is to use a tool called ‘Protontricks’.
This tool is allows you to modify the Prefixes in various ways and is very helpful when trying to make a problematic game run under Proton. We’ll ignore most of its functionalities for this use-case, though.After installing either from your distro’s repo or from Flatpak, open Protontricks.
It might give you some info/warning dialogs. That’s normal, it’s a very noisy tool, just hit OK until you eventually see a dialog that looks like this:It’ll show you all your Proton games, both Steam and Non-Steam.
Select which one you want to explore and click OK through the barrage of weird warnings and errors Protontricks gives you until you reach this dialog:Choose ‘Select the default wineprefix’ (yes this option is nonsensical), select ‘Browse files’ on the next and your file browser will open up at the proper prefix for the game. Tada!
Or y’know… might be easier to just read the numbers from the first dialog and navigate where you want manually :p
As said before, these hold your saves. Grab them before deleting, don’t just start blasting willy-nilly.
Use the PC Gaming Wiki to help you find save data locations.Hope this wall of text helps. Cheers.
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 5 weeks ago:
It removes the proton prefix that was used to run the game, now the runtimes themselves stay, I believe
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 5 weeks ago:
On your library, if you tell it to show you Software instead of games and mark the “Only installed” option, it shows you what Runtimes and Proton versions are installed IIRC
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 5 weeks ago:
According to Besset, one of their colleagues claimed setenv as “the worst Linux API”
Woof. - Comment on Jewel Beetles 5 weeks ago:
I cannot stand that “Unalive” bullshit.
Thanks for nothing Tiktok. - Comment on The price of the PS5 Pro “has not had a negative impact” on console sales, says Sony president - GAMESCENSOR 5 weeks ago:
Damn, your friends catching strays for no reason
- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 5 weeks ago:
The screenshot I saw explained that the person that posted it said “Your house, my choice” and it just goes so fucking hard.
- Comment on Guy Who Taunted Nintendo About Streaming Pirated Switch Games Before Release Now Faces $7.5 Million Lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 month ago:
The real question is: and???
So we’re harvesting energy from demons to power our shit?
That’s fuckin’ metal duuuuude. If you tried to make nuclear less cool you failed miserably. - Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 1 month ago:
Correct. Fuck Microsoft/Bethesda/Zenimax/whoever the fuck it was.
I just wanted more Dishonored/Prey 😒 - Comment on Nintendo Music – Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Make sure to download any songs you like off of YouTube, because Nintendo will likely strike the fuck out of everything now, if they haven’t already
- Comment on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux 1 month ago:
I never understand why when this happens the solution is always “cut off everyone” instead of just pacing Linux players in a lower trust lobby
- Comment on ShipOS 1994, a shipping company management game with a stylized 90s Windows UI, released on Steam 1 month ago:
Basically Kingsway for ship management. Interesting!
- Comment on Kamala Harris Dropped a New Custom 'Fortnite' Map 1 month ago:
Wow, the future is weird
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 1 month ago:
How terrible, such a neat feature abandoned.
I find it funny how console makers spend tons of resources making up new features only for game publishers do the bare minimum porting job and never bothering with using them. - Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 1 month ago:
[…] a new effort by Denuvo to bring PC gamers over to its side, which kicked off with a Discord server last week (it didn’t go well) and an interview with Rock Paper Shotgun this week
PR baybeeeeee
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 1 month ago:
I’m with the company for such a long time," said Ullmann. "The guys here are like my family, because a lot of the others here are also here for ages. It just hurts to see what’s posted out there about us, even though it has been claimed wrong for hundreds of times.
It hurts???
I get he’s being paid to gobble corporate dick, but people try to at least hide it usually lmao
