First of all, I don’t want you to help me with a specific problem. All the details in this post are just examples and I’m interested in getting a general understanding.
So I just wanted to play doom eternal, but when I press play on steam, after a couple of seconds the button switches from blue back to green with no game running. I checked protondb and saw that the game was gold rated, so it should run fine.
I checked the tweaks that people use and they suggest different proton versions. But no matter what I do, I basically get nothing. There are no error messages or log files. Same with other games I tried in the past.
So basically when a game does not work out of the box, I have no idea where to look for cues on how to fix it. Is there a verbose mode or something similar?
Really? For me if I don’t select a proton version it just uses the default, I’ve never seen it try to run a windows binary directly. Do I have some like secret extra setting enabled?
Yes, you do. In steam there’s a setting to use steam play for all incompatible titles
It’s just the setting I showed and then it auto selects the proton version. You need to do it for all games or go into steam settings and toggle on the compatibility setting “Enable Steam Play for all other titles.”