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How do I use Proton without Steam?

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I can easily run Windows games with wine by running:

wine game.exe

However, if I want to use Proton I have to run Steam, add the game as a non-Steam game, and run it that way.

Since Proton is just a modified Wine runtime, is there a way to use a game with Proton without involving Steam?

wine games

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Someone please post the trick with copying over Steam's files (1 comment)

matthewsnyder‭ wrote over 1 year ago

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There's instructions for this floating around the net where you rip the proton files out of Steam's own dir and then run the binary directly. You can even "acquire" the files with an empty Steam account by downloading a free game. However they're all on weird forums that are a total mess to read, and I could never figure out how exactly it's supposed to work. I'd love to see an answer that explains it properly.