Detect old Protontricks

[TravisGriffiths]

Great application! Thank you.

I ran into some issues getting this all running that are outside of the application, but are required by many games to run:

Protontricks is out of date on many installations, particularly when installed with apt-get, (I had "up to date" v1.10.0, needed v1.14.1). I had to get the latest flatpak and alias it to 'protontricks' in order for the updated game ID numbers to be detected properly and to install the Visual C++ 2022 redistributable the core module needed (was installing RED4ext for Cyberpunk). There is an excellent helper function in the application to do this, but if protontricks is not up to date, this happily reports success while failing silently. At a minimum a warning should surface if the install is attempted, but an older version is detected.

Also, it would be nice if you could fire off winecfg from the app, particularly for 'Automatically capture mouse in full-screen windows'. This is a long time issue in Wayland, particularly in multi-monitor setups where the mouse input is not captured correctly, leaving your cursor in the center of the screen just wiggling a bit.

A little bit of documentation would go a long way. I suggest a wiki for users to submit fixes as they are found so troubleshooting specific issues around certain problems can be gathered, indexed and curated.

Original Protontricks Issue

Discussion Thread for fix

Linux Installation docs for RED4ext

RED4ext core docs

[ChrisDKN]

Protontricks isn't used anywhere in the application because it depends on the user having it already installed. vcredist not installing with the option in the proton menu would be something else, I'd need to see the log when attempting this to see the issue.

Also, it would be nice if you could fire off winecfg from the app,

It's an option in the proton dropdown