Lutris no longer works with any versions of GE-Proton

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Since upgrading to Lutris 0.5.20, no version of GE-Proton works, I can only play WoW using Wine Staging 11.2. Before the upgrade I had no issues.

I’ve tried deleting the umu folder in ./local/share/ and still no joy. When I press play on WoW in Lutris it goes to stop for a few seconds before going back to play. If I delete the umu folder in ./local/share, then pressing play, it says stop for about 15 - 20 seconds, before going back to play (I guess this is it creating a new umu folder!)

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Odd. I upgrade to lutris 5.20 from 5.19 - I can still play WoW (launched from battle.net) with their default GE-Proton and wine. I used wine-10.16-staging-amd64-wow64-x86_64 on lutris 5.19, but now im using GE-Proton10-32. If any, i play on debian with nvidia 4060 if that information is relevant.

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I’m using Ubuntu 24.04 and Lutris with GE-Proton has been sweet as a nut on 0.5.18. I’ve even purged Lutris, renamed the Lutris and umu folders in ./local/share and reinstalled 0.5.18 and let it create it’s own folders, but GE-Proton or the default GE-Proton doesn’t show up in the list, only wine! I know that they are there as I’ve copied them to the proton folder under runners in Lutris folder in ./local/share!

4

You can drop it in .local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/, lutris should find steams version aswell

5

There is new problem now on 0.5.22 : GE-Proton (latest) (derault) not working.
Now you have to manually choose runner in game configure.

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For me it works with WINE 11.3 & Lutris 5.22 on EndeavourOS.
Only 32-bit Prefixes are no longer compatible with WoW64 (WINE 11).
So I have to clean the old Prefix & reinstall/copy all data to a new Auto- or 64-bit Prefix.

If I disable Lutris sources/environment, I could use WINE-GE & Proton versions, too.

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Previous Installer scripts of Lutris were made for 32bit wine engines and the new standard which is Proton, supports only 64 bit.

Apparently proton is able to run 32 bit too, but we’ve to re-install all our old 32 bit games again, with the default proton engine.

The problem I see is, many Game installer scripts are outdated or have been removed for other reasons.

So how to install old games with Lutris’ new, default engine?
Maybe write our own installer scripts?

Well, OLD games need always old runtime components, but one needs to know windows and proton to understand how to write a good installer, imo.