What was the issue? Was it related to anti-cheat or something?
I would recommend in the future to people here that if they are not dealing with an anti-cheat problem they should just lie about playing on Steam Deck or Linux in general.
From what I understand the whole point of Proton/WINE is that they translate Windows syscalls to Linux ones. It translates the program being run with Proton/WINE into stuff that the Linux system understands. There is a good chance that issues that pop up when running a game in WINE are also popping up on Windows itself.
Example: I had an issue with the Halo Master Chief Collection. After an update there was some problem with a Win64.exe preventing EAC from working. I tried looking up the error message, didn’t get anywhere. I submit a ticket and say that I am using the Steam Deck. Support tells me they don’t officially support the Steam Deck and closes the ticket.
I ended up refining my search more and found that this Win64.exe issue also happens on Windows and that a full reinstall is the solution. I did that and everything started working again.
Just lie to them. Lie within reason but just lie. Say you are running Windows 10 (Proton/WINE creates a Windows filesystem for each prefix), and say you are running some variety of Ryzen mini-PC.
Just lie to them. Lie within reason but just lie. Say you are running Windows 10
Please don’t… There’s lots and lots of bugs specific to Proton and not the dev’s faults. Wine is not perfect. This kind of shit will just force devs to pull support.
My assumption isn’t that Proton/WINE is perfect, though it is pretty good. I say lie within reason because you could reasonably guess what bugs are reproducible in Windows. In my situation I could tell it was a bug in Windows as well before I had it confirmed later on simply due to the error message in-game. If you run the game via terminal a WINE bug should appear as such.
Just lie to them. Lie within reason but just lie. Say you are running Windows 10
Please don’t… There’s lots and lots of bugs specific to Proton and not the dev’s faults. Wine is not perfect. This kind of shit will just force devs to pull support.
What was the issue? Was it related to anti-cheat or something?
I would recommend in the future to people here that if they are not dealing with an anti-cheat problem they should just lie about playing on Steam Deck or Linux in general.
From what I understand the whole point of Proton/WINE is that they translate Windows syscalls to Linux ones. It translates the program being run with Proton/WINE into stuff that the Linux system understands. There is a good chance that issues that pop up when running a game in WINE are also popping up on Windows itself.
Example: I had an issue with the Halo Master Chief Collection. After an update there was some problem with a Win64.exe preventing EAC from working. I tried looking up the error message, didn’t get anywhere. I submit a ticket and say that I am using the Steam Deck. Support tells me they don’t officially support the Steam Deck and closes the ticket.
I ended up refining my search more and found that this Win64.exe issue also happens on Windows and that a full reinstall is the solution. I did that and everything started working again.
Just lie to them. Lie within reason but just lie. Say you are running Windows 10 (Proton/WINE creates a Windows filesystem for each prefix), and say you are running some variety of Ryzen mini-PC.
Please don’t… There’s lots and lots of bugs specific to Proton and not the dev’s faults. Wine is not perfect. This kind of shit will just force devs to pull support.
I don’t see the problem if there’s no support in the first place. Also, how will they know you lied?
My assumption isn’t that Proton/WINE is perfect, though it is pretty good. I say lie within reason because you could reasonably guess what bugs are reproducible in Windows. In my situation I could tell it was a bug in Windows as well before I had it confirmed later on simply due to the error message in-game. If you run the game via terminal a WINE bug should appear as such.
Please don’t… There’s lots and lots of bugs specific to Proton and not the dev’s faults. Wine is not perfect. This kind of shit will just force devs to pull support.