In my experience the Flatpack version causes more issues than it fixes. Try installing it through Nobara's package manager instead (I think Nobara uses dnf?)
I don't use Nobara though so someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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I second this. On fedora I had a few too many issues with the flatpak and all were solved by switching to the rpm/native version
I tried installing it through the package manager originally and it wasnt able to get past installing directx.
Funnily enough regardless of what directories it sees, a reinstall of steam allowed protonup-qt to see that ME:LE was using GE-Proton 8-5 and is currently working!
Amazing... I've never had smoothness like this on this machine. I am getting the same performance out of 1440p that I used to get on 1080p, and at 1080p it feels like I'm playing it on my desktop. I never thought it would be usable again, this is crazy. The old girl's 1050 is still chugging along and getting a clean 60fps. If I can get my main games all functional on here I might actually consider changing my desktop over as well.
I tried installing it through the package manager originally and it wasnt able to get past installing directx.
Funnily enough regardless of what directories it sees, a reinstall of steam allowed protonup-qt to see that ME:LE was using GE-Proton 8-5 and is currently working!
Amazing... I've never had smoothness like this on this machine. I am getting the same performance out of 1440p that I used to get on 1080p, and at 1080p it feels like I'm playing it on my desktop. I never thought it would be usable again, this is crazy. The old girl's 1050 is still chugging along and getting a clean 60fps.
I think you may need to clear out ~/.config/steam or similar to get rid of the initial install. Might just be ~/.steam.
You seem to have run in a few issues right off the gate, usually, one would just install steam through the distro's repositories, then let steam itself install whichever proton version they need need and run re game without any problems
You might get more success trying to fix the first installation process of steam failing than messing around with flat-packs and such.
The steam installation process didn't fail, when I attempted to launch a game it would get eternally hung up on the directx script. This persisted across multiple reinstalls of the traditional steam distro in the software. Plus I literally got the advice to try flatpak from a GitHub thread.
Installing it via flatpak was the only way I could get anything to launch.
I have no intention to push you towards another distro since you will get more out of fixing issues on the one you have than just hopping, but what made you get nobara instead of a more tried and trusted distribution like base fedora, mint or arch derivatives ?
Nobara is just fedora with wine and proton dependencies installed and some other software like discord prepackaged, or so I was lead to believe.
What's wrong with it? I chose it over arch because fedora has a longer track record since it's the professional Linux distro. I figured that was a good move.
it should be just ~/.local/share/Steam and like 2 or 3 other .steam files left in your homefolder. if that doesnt work you might wanna delete the config files for ProtonQt which if is a flatpak would be in ~/.var/app
I looked through the webpage and github repo but still don't understand. What is the purpose of Proton-Qt? Lutris and Steam have their "which version to use" settings. What does this tool add?
To my knowledge it's how you install the proton compatibility layer. That doesn't just come with steam, right? You're just telling the game which version to attempt to use, right?
Steam has a list of proton versions to choose from in the compatibility settings of the game. When you select one it downloads it automatically. You should only have to download a proton version manually if you want to use the Glorious Eggroll versions, or if you really need a specific version that steam doesn't list, at least as far as i'm aware.
I install the one provided by steam. I guess it should just install the first time you install a game that uses it. And then you will be getting updates via steam too.
I guess, if you are checking out some patches for a game or something like that, then it would be nice to have a simple way to provide your own. But from my experience it's not needed, steam handles proton versions itself
EDIT: proton compatibility layer is something else than just proton?
EDIT2: This is how it looked in the past but AFAIK now you don't even need to enable proton to install proton-only games. Or am I missing something?