A few weeks ago, the brave game launcher was updated to bring various improvements in the design of the app. This also changed something significant to Linux users.
You may have heard of wine -based compatibility layer protons, which helps users to run Windows games on Linux. The proton is developed by the valve, mainly for steamos. Its thorns are, a popular version is Ge-Proton, which is itself a fork and spoon-off.
There is a debate among the Linux gaming community that some versions of the proton are better than others. Some of the valves like their protons, some prefer GE-Poton, there are versions that ship with some distroses. There is no best version, it actually depends on the game you’re running, some game walks on the old versions of the proton, while some perform better on the latest versions.
The brave launcher allows users to choose which wine version they want to use, depending on a copy-game. This is very useful because some game can run better on a certain version of wine, or proton, proton experimifics, etc., now, rear updates for brave game launcher, version 2.18.0, to be accurate, hidden non-GE-cut versions by default. This essentially meant that you could only choose between wine, wine GE and wine staging versions.
See, this was the problem. Veer Game Launcher decided to disable all non-GE proton versions by default. It may be a confused user, who were unaware of the change, as they could not choose any version of the proton, whether it was proton hotfix version, experimental, an old version, or proton-catio, proton-EM, proton-seak. Launcher developers have admitted that the change they made was controversial, and returned it.
Veer had given a warning under the wine version selection menu stating that non-GA proton versions were ignored, and could be enabled with advanced settings. But, there were some users Unhappy with change,
Veer Game Launcher 2.18.1 Hotfix #1, which was Was released on GITHUB yesterdayCures the problem. Instead of hiding other versions of the proton, it only hides the proton versions of the valve. But it does not do this by default, according to the release notes, this togle is now opt-in, not opt-out.
So those user who do not want to use the latest versions of protons from the valve can choose it to disable it from the Settings> Advanced page. Other versions should still be available.
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