Experimenting with the Proton compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for use with running Nintendo Switch games better on suyu and, as well as to test implementing in suyuOS more generally so it can become the ultimate gaming OS.
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Introduction
Introduction

Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.

Most users will prefer to use Proton provided by the Steam client itself. The source code is provided to enable advanced users the ability to alter Proton. For example, some users may wish to use a different version of Wine with a particular title.


Getting Started with Proton from Steam Play


Obtaining Proton from source

NOTE: If you are not comfortable in a command line terminal, or if you find any of the information presented in here strange and uncomfortable, then this is probably not for you. The instructions are likely to be incomplete and require some knowledge and skill on your part, and there is no warranty or guarantee that anyone will help you with this process.

We strongly recommend that most users use the production build of Proton.

Acquire Proton's source by cloning https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton and checking out the branch you desire. Be sure to update submodules when switching branches.

You can clone the latest Proton to your system with this command:

    git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton.git proton
    cd proton

If you wish to change any subcomponent, now is the time to do so. For example, if you wish make changes to Wine, you would apply those changes to the wine/ directory.


Easy build path

Building Proton is quite complicated. We provide a top-level Makefile which will execute most of the build commands for you. This section describes how to use this Makefile for simple Proton builds.

This Makefile uses a virtual machine to create a consistent build environment. The VM is managed with Vagrant, which you will need to install before invoking these commands. Proton's build system is most well tested with Vagrant's VirtualBox and libvirt/qemu backends. It also requires the vagrant-sshfs plugin. You may run into problems with the shared folder (vagrant_share) and/or CPU and memory usage with other backends.

If your build VM gets cluttered, or falls out of date, you can use vagrant destroy to wipe the VM clean, then invoke one of the below commands to start over.

After checking out Proton and updating its submodules, you can use these targets to build Proton:

make install - This will install Proton into your user's Steam directory. You may need to restart the Steam client to see it. The tool's name in the Steam client will be based on the currently checked out branch of Proton. You can override this name using the build_name variable.

make redist - This will create a build which you can easily redistribute to other users. The package will be dropped into a new directory in vagrant_share/, named after the nearest Git tag (see git describe). Copying this directory into ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/ will make the build available after restarting the Steam client.

make deploy - This will create a deployment tarball and set of files which can be distributed as a Proton package. This is what we use to deploy Proton to Steam users. The package will be dropped into a new directory in vagrant_share/, named after the nearest Git tag (see git describe).

make clean - This will completely erase the build tree in the VM.

make help - View the Makefile documentation and examples.

We also provide targets useful for simple Wine development:

make proton - This will build Proton without copying its files out of the VM.

make module=<module> module - This will build both 32- and 64-bit versions of the specified module, and copy the result into the vagrant_share directory. This allows rapid iteration on one module. This target is only useful after building Proton.

make dxvk - This will rebuild DXVK and copy it into vagrant_share.

If you are doing significant Wine development or want to control the build with more fine detail, see the full documentation below.


Building

At a high level, the build instructions are:

  1. Set up your build environment
  2. Configure the build
  3. Build Proton
  4. Install Proton locally (optional)

See below for more details on all of these steps. Please read all of the instructions before proceeding.


Set up the build environment

Proton has a lot of build-time dependencies. The following instructions describe how we create the build environment for the production builds of Proton. For reproducibility and security reasons, we will be setting up a Debian virtual machine. However, you should be able to follow these instructions on other distributions as well.

Proton provides a Vagrantfile, which will automatically set up the Debian VM for you. After installing Vagrant, initialize the VM by running from within the Proton directory:

    vagrant up

It will take a long time to download and install the Steam runtime containers and so on. Eventually it will complete. You can SSH into the virtual machine with:

    vagrant ssh

At this point you will need to configure the build directory. See below.

The Vagrantfile is set up to rsync the proton directory into the VM on boot. On the host machine, you can use vagrant rsync-auto to have Vagrant automatically sync changes on your host machine into the build machine. It is recommended that you make changes on your host machine, and then perform the build in the VM. Any changes you make in the proton directory on the VM may be overwritten by later rsync updates from the host machine.

The Vagrantfile also creates a directory called vagrant_share in the proton directory of your host machine, which is mounted at /vagrant within the VM. You can use this shared folder to move your Proton build out of the VM, or as one way to copy files into the VM.

When you are done with the VM, you can shut it down from the host machine:

    vagrant halt

Please read the Vagrant documentation for more information about how to use Vagrant VMs.

If you do not wish to use Vagrant, you can read through both Vagrantfile and vagrant-user-setup.sh for the list of dependencies and instructions on how to set up your own machine or another VM of your choosing. It is aimed at Debian 10, but you should be able to adapt them for other distributions.


Alternative: Building without the Steam Runtime

The Steam Runtime provides a clean and consistent set of libraries. Software distributed through Steam should depend only on libraries available through the runtime, and so we build in that environment for production Proton builds. The Vagrantfile described above will set this up for you. However, if you are simply making a build for yourself, you may want to skip setting up the Steam runtime, as it takes a very long time to set up. To do this, edit the vagrant-user-setup.sh script appropriately before running vagrant up.


Configure the build

After setting up the build system, it is time to run the configure script which will generate the Makefile to build your project. Run these steps. You may of course use whatever paths you like.

    mkdir build/
    cd build
    ../proton/configure.sh --steam-runtime64=docker:steam-proton-dev --steam-runtime32=docker:steam-proton-dev

If you are building without the Steam runtime, then instead use:

    ../proton/configure.sh --no-steam-runtime

Tip: If you are building without the Steam runtime, you should now run make obj-wine64/Makefile obj-wine32/Makefile and check the files obj-wine64/config.log and obj-wine32/config.log for missing packages. Search for won't be supported. A couple of missing packages are normal: opencv, oss. More than that may indicate a problem. Please see your distro's documentation to acquire the considerable build dependencies for Wine.


Build Proton

A couple of Makefile targets are provided.

make dist will create a Proton installation in dist/ that you can install manually (see below), or automatically with make install.

make deploy will package Proton up for distribution via Steamworks.


Install Proton locally

Steam ships with several versions of Proton, which games will use by default or that you can select in Steam Settings's SteamPlay page. Steam also supports running games with local builds of Proton, which you can install on your machine. The install target will perform the below steps for you.

To install a local build of Proton into Steam, make a new directory in ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/ with a tool name of your choosing and place the contents of dist into that folder. The make install target will perform this task for you, installing the Proton build into the Steam folder for the current user. You will have to restart the Steam client for it to pick up on a new tool.

A correct local tool installation should look like this:

    compatibilitytools.d/my_proton/
    ├── compatibilitytool.vdf
    ├── filelock.py
    ├── LICENSE
    ├── proton
    ├── proton_dist.tar
    ├── toolmanifest.vdf
    ├── user_settings.sample.py
    └── version

To enable your local build in Steam, go to the Steam Play section of the Settings window. If the build was correctly installed, you should see "proton-localbuild" in the drop-down list of compatibility tools.

Each component of this software is used under the terms of their licenses. See the LICENSE files here, as well as the LICENSE, COPYING, etc files in each submodule and directory for details. If you distribute a built version of Proton to other users, you must adhere to the terms of these licenses.


Runtime Config Options

Proton can be tuned at runtime to help certain games run. The Steam client sets some options for known games using the STEAM_COMPAT_CONFIG variable. You can override these options using the environment variables described below.

The best way to set these environment overrides for all games is by renaming user_settings.sample.py to user_settings.py and modifying it appropriately. This file is located in the Proton installation directory in your Steam library (often ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton #.#).

If you want to change the runtime configuration for a specific game, you can use the Set Launch Options setting in the game's Properties dialog in the Steam client. Set the variable, followed by %command%. For example, input "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" to use the OpenGL-based wined3d renderer instead of the Vulkan-based DXVK renderer.

To enable an option, set the variable to a non-0 value. To disable an option, set the variable to 0. To use Steam's default configuration, do not specify the variable at all.

All of the below are runtime options. They do not effect permanent changes to the Wine prefix. Removing the option will revert to the previous behavior.

Compat config string Environment Variable Description
PROTON_LOG Convenience method for dumping a useful debug log to $PROTON_LOG_DIR/steam-$APPID.log For more thorough logging, use user_settings.py.
PROTON_LOG_DIR Output log files into the directory specified. Defaults to your home directory.
PROTON_DUMP_DEBUG_COMMANDS When running a game, Proton will write some useful debug scripts for that game into $PROTON_DEBUG_DIR/proton_$USER/.
PROTON_DEBUG_DIR Root directory for the Proton debug scripts, /tmp by default.
wined3d PROTON_USE_WINED3D Use OpenGL-based wined3d instead of Vulkan-based DXVK for d3d11, d3d10, and d3d9.
nod3d11 PROTON_NO_D3D11 Disable d3d11.dll, for d3d11 games which can fall back to and run better with d3d9.
nod3d10 PROTON_NO_D3D10 Disable d3d10.dll and dxgi.dll, for d3d10 games which can fall back to and run better with d3d9.
noesync PROTON_NO_ESYNC Do not use eventfd-based in-process synchronization primitives.
nofsync PROTON_NO_FSYNC Do not use futex-based in-process synchronization primitives. (Automatically disabled on systems with no FUTEX_WAIT_MULTIPLE support.)
forcelgadd PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE Force Wine to enable the LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag for all executables. Enabled by default.
gamedrive PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE Create an S: drive which points to the Steam Library which contains the game.
noforcelgadd Disable forcelgadd. If both this and forcelgadd are set, enabled wins.
oldglstr PROTON_OLD_GL_STRING Set some driver overrides to limit the length of the GL extension string, for old games that crash on very long extension strings.
vkd3dfl12 Force the Direct3D 12 feature level to 12, regardless of driver support.
vkd3dbindlesstb Put force_bindless_texel_buffer into VKD3D_CONFIG.
hidenvgpu PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU Force Nvidia GPUs to always be reported as AMD GPUs. Some games require this if they depend on Windows-only Nvidia driver functionality. See also DXVK's nvapiHack config, which only affects reporting from Direct3D.
WINE_FULLSCREEN_INTEGER_SCALING Enable integer scaling mode, to give sharp pixels when upscaling.
cmdlineappend: Append the string after the colon as an argument to the game command. May be specified more than once. Escape commas and backslashes with a backslash.
nowritewatch PROTON_NO_WRITE_WATCH Disable support for memory write watches in ntdll. This is a very dangerous hack and should only be applied if you have verified that the game can operate without write watches. This improves performance for some very specific games (e.g. CoreRT-based games).
seccomp PROTON_USE_SECCOMP Note: Obsoleted in Proton 5.13. In older versions, enable seccomp-bpf filter to emulate native syscalls, required for some DRM protections to work.
d9vk PROTON_USE_D9VK Note: Obsoleted in Proton 5.0. In older versions, use Vulkan-based DXVK instead of OpenGL-based wined3d for d3d9.