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How is running a game with proton different in Steam and Lutris? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have had numerous cases where a non-Steam game would run perfectly through Steam with Proton but the same game wouldn't even launch through Lutris, even though I used the exact same Proton version. How are they different? Is there anything that Steam does in the background that Lutris won't?

I'd love if anyone could shed some light on this for me.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Proton is basically just a version of Wine but Steam has other runtime apps like Pressure Vessel that work together making the game run. Don't know if Lutris has anything else than managing and running the apps in the Wine prefix with specified Wine version. This is as deep as my knowledge goes.