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How does Proton work?
(programming.dev)
I got my Steam Deck 3 days ago and I just started exploring it. Given that I already have a large library of games on Epic Games, one of the first thing I did was installing the Heroic launcher. It worked well for some of the games (and not for others... like Hyper Light Drifter ;_; if someone knows how to configure it please help me). What I'm not understanding is: why do I need to have different proton versions installed for each game? Eg: one game requires GE 7.32 (what's GE by the way???), another game version 7.45, another one 7.20 etc etc etc... Why? I already had the latest version (8.0) of proton installed on my Steam Deck, shouldn't it be enough to run all other games being the latest version? 🫤
Proton updates can sometimes unintentionally break or introduce bugs and glitches for certain games in which case you can force the use of an older version of proton where the game works best.
Most of the time though the latest version works fine. GE refers to a custom version of proton with community patches applied to faster than official proton releases.
I have used my Steam Deck for roughly two weeks now so I might be wrong but personally the latest Proton version running games through Steam works perfectly fine.