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.
…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
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.
You can also run pirated copies in Steam, you wouldn’t need Steam multiple times and it would fix those issues you’re having
Dude you can run pirated copies through steam using Proton and fix your issues. Chill dude
I think I found a solution for now. Adding -vgui will launch the old Steam UI.
The scroll is sluggish, but beyond that everything has been great. A major improvement for me.
Yes. None of the issues you describe, though.
- I can’t use the steam overlay at all. Shift+Tab does nothing. I made sure it’s enabled.
- I can’t click any of the options in the context menu of friends’ icons.
I had a strange issue where the Store interface couldn’t be interacted with until I swapped to the Library and back again. I side-stepped the issue by just telling Steam to always open to the Library tab on launch which is honestly preferable behavior anyways.
I’m mad I didn’t think to do this, thank you lol
I think it still should be possible with combination of native Steam and Steamtinkerlaunch, although I haven’t done that in a while. Check this guide.
If you have Nvidia, use drivers 470 instead of 530 worked for me on Ubuntu
Yes, it has a white flash with the dropdown menus: https://streamable.com/eerf20
I got the white flash too but I don’t have any of the other issues described in OP
For some reason in Settings > Storage, when I try to select anything on this dropdown nothing happensWell I am glad it’s not just me, that means it’s more likely for it to get fixed.
