Hello,

I’m not sure how many of you here use Linux for gaming, but there might be someone who can help me.

With my friends, we play a few games that, based on the place I’m writing in, are assumed to be pirated copies. We use something called an “Online fix” for Steam, which tricks it into thinking we’re playing a different game in order to access its API and play multiplayer together.

How do I actually do this under Linux? I use Bottles, which allows me to play Windows games. I’ve installed a Windows version of Steam through it, and it works quite poorly, but it gets the job done (or rather, it used to). Basically, I just have to start it up to be able to play. The problem arose recently when Valve released a new update that significantly changed the Steam UI.

After the update was applied, I encountered several issues:

  • When Steam starts, a strange symbol appears on the screen, which stays on top of every window or application, and it’s quite annoying.
  • Steam itself started crashing. And when that happens, the game crashes logically as well.

Before the update, I had no problems, and now I don’t know what to do. To play these particular games, I need to have Steam running. If I run the native Linux version, it works, but the game can’t detect that Steam is running since it’s not actually inside the Wine container.

EDIT: I think I found a solution for now. Adding -vgui will launch the old Steam UI.

  • 8565@lemmy.quad442.com
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    1 year ago

    …why would you use bottles to play windows games and not just use Proton? If you don’t know Proton is a incredible tool built right into steam and it works with most games. You can check Protondb for comparability with the games you want to play

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      1 year ago

      Man, Proton itself is just Wine + DXVK + VKD3D and maybe some minor tweaks. How would using Proton help my situation? I mean, if I was playing a legal copy of these games - yeah, running them directly on Steam would help, but these games are pirated copies, dude.

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        1 year ago

        You can also run pirated copies in Steam, you wouldn’t need Steam multiple times and it would fix those issues you’re having