

Change its name to user_settings.py and then open the file in a text editor. There’s a file with the name user_settings_sample.py. If you head to HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton\ 3.7/, you’ll find the Proton’s configuration files. We’ll also run Age of Empires 2 HD on Linux as an example test case.Įnabling Proton Configuration File & Logs Now, in this tutorial, we’ll explain how to enable Steam Play with Proton, how to adjust its preferences and how to debug non-working games. Valve said it will make sure all games on the store will be eventually supported under Steam Play for Linux. But today, you can start expecting a pure gaming experience on Linux just like on Windows. Some big titles were never ported to Linux and remained Windows-only, and those which were ported had many glitches. This is a huge deal, because thousands of users around the world were prevented before from fully switching to Linux due to the limitations of the gaming experience on Linux.

Proton is a modified distribution of Wine that enables you to run Windows games on Linux, and it’s integrated directly inside Steam itself, which will enable you to run all Windows-only Steam games natively on Linux.

Today, Valve released a new beta version of Steam Play which includes a technology called “Proton”.
