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tralph3 / Steam-Metadata-Editor

An easy to use GUI that edits the metadata of your Steam Apps
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Possibility of changing platform for a game? #21

Closed parkerlreed closed 2 years ago

parkerlreed commented 2 years ago

Trying to edit the manifest of Beam.NG to make it think it has native Linux support.

Beam.NG has a launch option for the Linux beta but since its a Windows only game, never shows it.

I manually removed both of the Windows options with Steam Metadata Editor but then it tries running the Linux binary with WINE.

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As a last resort I tried forcing Steam Linux Runtime from ProtonUP-QT but then it just thinks the game is uninstalled.

Would be greet to set the overall game platform as well from within Steam Metadata Editor

tralph3 commented 2 years ago

Hi, I explained why this doesn't work here: https://github.com/tralph3/Steam-Metadata-Editor/issues/20#issuecomment-1193237623

In short, in order for a launch option for a particular platform to show, the game must support that platform (i.e, have a depot for it). Beamn.NG does have an experimental Linux binary, but it comes with the Windows version, there's no Linux depot as seen here: https://steamdb.info/app/284160/depots/

So there's nothing really I can do. Steam will always try to run it with Proton. The only solution would be to find a way to tell Proton to run it as a Linux executable, but I'm not aware of a solution for that.