Hey everyone,

I’m running Fedora 42 Workstation with KDE and using the Flatpak version of Steam. Battlefield 4 launches fine under Proton Experimental, but as soon as PunkBuster kicks in, I get kicked after a few minutes while playing.
I’ve heard PunkBuster needs updating, so I tried to set it up manually with Protontricks—but I keep hitting roadblocks.
What I’ve tried so far: • Downloaded pbsetup.zip and extracted pbsetup.exe (Windows version)
• Installed Protontricks both as a Flatpak and system package
• Launched Protontricks, which shows two Steam paths:

/home/user/.local/share/Steam – I can see BF4 in this library, but choosing it yields: “Proton installation could not be found!”

/home/user/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam – This one complains: “Found no games. You need to launch a game at least once before Protontricks can find it.” • Tried command-line Protontricks targeting the BF4 prefix—no luck • Granted all permissions to the Protontricks Flatpak sandbox

/home/user/.local/share/Steam – I can see BF4 in this library, but choosing it yields: “Proton installation could not be found!”

/home/user/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam – This one complains: “Found no games. You need to launch a game at least once before Protontricks can find it.” • Tried command-line Protontricks targeting the BF4 prefix—no luck • Granted all permissions with Flatseal to the Protontricks Flatpak sandbox

Has anyone else run into this with PunkBuster on Flatpak Steam? How did you get Protontricks to recognize and update PunkBuster in the BF4 prefix? What can i do?
Thanks in advance!

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I know it's not really an important issue bit its bugging me. Why is the color of the icon so deep-fried? running it on steam with GE proton 10-10

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Hello,

so I am another of these guys that switch gaming from windows to linux. So far, I was very succesful: My main game, Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) works very fine on my Linux Mint Box, so alright that far.

My problem now is to get addons working correctly - for both my wife and myself. And that´s where somehow the trouble starts. So, here is what I do:

1. my /home-dirs are on an nfs server. As I didn´t get steam working with this, I have created a local partition on my pc that I mounted under "/lin-games". In my home-dir (assume that I'm "user1"), you can see the following:

$ ls -la ~ | grep steam
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user1 users 25 Aug 11 13:04 user1 user1-steam -> /lin-games/user1-steam/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user1 users 25 Aug 11 13:04 .steam -> /lin-games/user1-steam/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user1 users 32 Aug 11 14:47 .steampath -> /home/user1/.steam/sdk32/steam
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user1 users 30 Aug 11 14:47 .steampid -> /home/user1/.steam/steam.pid

Now, here we go for /lin-games:

$ ls -la /lin-games/
drwxrwxr-x+ 3 user1 users 4096 Aug 11 15:41 games
drwxr-xr-x 3 user1 users 4096 Aug 11 14:47 user1-steam

What you see here is the .steam-dir from my /home-dir and "games", where my steam library is located.

From my windows I know that ESO stores Addons under "Documents/Elder Scrolls Online/live/Addons". Now, I assumed that under linux, these settings would be found under each .steam-dir, in my case "/lin-games/user1-steam". Unfortunately, this is not the case. I can find the addons here:

"/lin-games/games/steamapps/compatdata/306130/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/Elder\ Scrolls\ Online/live/AddOns/"

For only one user this is no problem, but as my wife uses other addons than me, I cannot change these addons as their are located on the steam-library-folder.

Is there any solution to this?

Greets!

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Hello, good morning, afternoon or evening, I am a normal Windows user but for some time I have wanted to switch to Linux, I have had many problems with Windows and Linux has caught my attention, I already have the Ubuntu version installed but I have seen that it is not so special for me. I have only installed Spotify, brave and made some adjustments. If it helps, I am studying systems engineering so I have a bit of knowledge of the OS, I need you to recommend a distro that suits me, if it is of any use, I want it for programming languages, daily use such as listening to music, watching videos, using streaming applications, editing the wallpaper and also what I mostly do with my laptop is play epic games, steam, the xbox app and ea. I also use programs like visual studio and so on, I know that the epic games store is not native on Linux but I understand that it can be emulated or something like that, what distro do you recommend? I would greatly appreciate your support and I will be reading them.

PS: As a last question, can my external controller software be installed? For example, my keyboard is from the terport brand, my control is wired from the powerA brand and my mouse is from the primus brand and I have a question if their software can be installed?

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I'm seeing that the EA app is not working for battlefront 2 (2017). I would like to play it. I'm dual booting Windows on a different SSD right now and can play on that but I would rather use Linux if I can. Does anyone have a work around?

I'm seeing a lot of people labeling it as borked on proton db but I figured more people could see this here.

Thanks in advance!

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