Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
just tried vkBasalt again:
looks like it works pretty good with the reshade side-by-side shader.
will implement it some day next week.
merging
LC_ALL="" PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" LD_PRELOAD=""
into a
extRun function
looked initially like a good idea, but it broke several things, so just reverted it.
maybe worth to recheck later, because it simply looks ugly.
Also if/when
LC_ALL=""
or
LC_ALL="C"
should be used.
(LC_ALL="" seems to be generally the better choice, but at least Vortex requires "LC_ALL=C", to make sure a "My Documents"
exists in the WINEPREFIX, else the symlink funtions won't find their paths.)
testing if support for some wmp10 games could be implemented:
search proton issues and found those I own:
ValveSoftware/Proton#1649 : looks like wmp10 and quartz are not enough: #39
ValveSoftware/Proton#829 : nope, neither wmp10+quartz, nor wmp11+quartz(+ disabled winegstreamer) fixed this glitch
ValveSoftware/Proton#770 : the game start and seems to be very playable with HACKWMP10=1 and
WINETRICKSPAKS=d3dx9_43 but videos are black (cinepak,directshow,quartz didn't help)
ValveSoftware/Proton#576 : damn, both titles already do work with wmp11, adding both as tweaks
Would be nice if you test other titles you own.
With some luck a tweakfile ($SteamAppId.conf) with
HACKWMP10=1
is already enough
doesn't look like it works completely correctly so I'll probably remove the function
edit: complete 32bit pfx function to work as expected! solved when Giana Sisters works ootb.
Doesn't looks like there's much interest in stl.
I will continue working on it anyway, because it is really a very nice tool for me,
but I might no longer push the commits, as apparently nobody cares or actually uses it
(thank you for the 12 stars and the AUR build though).
It would be nice if people had some use for stl,
but I'm fine with working on it only for myself without the extra release work as well.
I really have no idea why it is ignored, maybe:
Q: is it too complicated?
A: Tell me!
Q: Is the documentation to weird?
A: You guessed it - english is not my mother tounge. Feel free to improve the documentation and send a pull request! Would be great!
Q: Maybe because still nobody knows it?
A: Yes possible, but when release announcements are mostly ignored on reddit,
rant:
while f.e. tons of other random "hey I switched from windows to linux yesterday and ask thousands of random questions instead of reading a documentation before" get hundreds of upvotes every time I wonder if this really could be the reason. And yes, this really su**s imho! Once the linux community encouraged themself to read documentation to learn something, today more and more people are too lazy for everything - and that is not only linux or gaming related but simply in every situation.
depending on the wine version used, the vortex wine user is either "$USER" or "steamuser".
For "steamuser" the symlink creation of the gamedirs has to be fixed, as they are created for "$USER".
Vortex might have a problem with "steamuser" though.
Both the Vortex splash and larger window later are fully black.
I have also had a message poping up saying i should not run it as administrator.
Then selection is Quit or Ignore.
Tried this with Final Fantasy 12 and Skyrim SE.
Splitting #40 into separate issues.
I'm working on an automated game configuration/import of Protonfixes gamefixes.
The implementation is already at an advanced stage.
When enabled protonfixes will be automatically downloaded and almost all functions will be converted into stl "autotweak" configfiles.
Currently stl points to
https://www.protondb.com/app/105400
if a game requires xliveless to work, because a direct download maybe (?) would be illegal.
Just found this opensource project https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases
via https://www.protondb.com/app/12360
which seems to provide a opensource legal xlive.dll as well.
If it works with every game it should be legally possible to automatically download and install it if required.
no idea why
steam/proton is very picky with its wineprefixes, might be a wontfix
Just fyi:
Loading of the config files is very slow (~3 seconds) currently.
I already have a fix which will be committed with the next push.
Hey @frostworx,
I have created a package for steamtinkerlaunch in the Arch AUR and earlier today updated to your 0.92 version but I see that you have just lowered the version back to 0.91. Was that intentional?
The change can be seen at:
62f746a#diff-7646b54bb4e9ecea20a0ca57e3b2f794R8
Thanks,
Alan Jenkins
Which games still require mf-install to work correctly?
Does it make sense to implement it?
Might be interesting:
ValveSoftware/Proton#1464
Not sure if this is a you problem or a me problem. I am but a novice with linux, just enough knowledge to make it dangerous, not enough to completely understand what does what.
Copied from what my protondb shows up. Steam came loaded on the version of manjaro i used (plasma kde)
OS: Manjaro Linux
KERNEL: 5.7.9-1-MANJARO
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 440.100
RAM: 32 GB
I initially started with trying to launch a game to install vortex as instructed after installing from the aur provided for archlinux. It hung up hard, couldn't quit the game from steam. so I attempted the command line installation of vortex. It hung up in the same place as I experience now after doing a complete computer wipe, fresh install of everything as I had thought perhaps my novice level modifications of games using proton, protontricks, winetricks and various other stuff might have had something to do with it.
additionally i updated to your current fixes that were not implemented in the aur for archlinux to see if that would fix it (it hadn't). rolled back my computer to the backup I had made after a fresh install and tried again. so I'm getting hung up in the exact same location with no idea what to do about it. Currently it's been sitting at the same spot for 2.5 hours. The following are the last lines posted to the terminal.
Setting Windows version to default
Executing /usr/bin/wine regedit /S C:\windows\Temp\set-winver.reg
Executing /usr/bin/wine64 regedit /S C:\windows\Temp\set-winver.reg
------------------------------------------------------
Running /usr/bin/wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/home/$USER/.config/stl/vortex/wineprefix terminate
------------------------------------------------------
Would be nice to have an optional search for required tweaks from various different platforms.
Most interesting ones would be probably
Lutris has an open api which could be used - I asked here if using it from stl would be ok: lutris/lutris#3117
protondb doesn't seem to have any usable api, but if the data could be reached, some basic functions searching for required tweaks could be done. I only found this (half-official?)half-maintained project https://github.com/bdefore/protondb-data
which only offers huge static tarballs of monthly reports. opened an issue here 6 weeks ago asking for improvements : bdefore/protondb-data#28
the proton issue tracker is probably full of useful informations, but haven't found(/searched) for a way yet to automatically search in there.
edit:
any other sources I forgot/don't know?
the games appid is in the parent directory of the given exepath in one of th appmanifest_*.acf files.
should be ok to just grep those files for "installdir" to get it.
f.e. simply with RUN_CUSTOMCMD=2
comes in handy for installers, which you usually only needs once.
When RUN_CUSTOMCMD=1 is set and CUSTOMCMD is empty
CUSTOMCMDwould come in handy if playing games in SBS-VR, because toggling between the vr-video-player and the actual game window (f.e. for zooning and centering the view) is just a single hotkey on almost every WM
recently dxvk 1.7.1 support was added to winetricks:
Winetricks/winetricks@946d0cd
which makes setup_dxvk obsolete
while re-testing this issue
ValveSoftware/Proton#3962
I found out that setting
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winegestreamer=d"
doesn't seem to work
(maybe because the origin launcher starts the game process detached from the launcher process and looses the var in between?),
so I'll add a REGEDIT function to stl like this:
if REGEDIT is
$SteamAppId.reg will be searched and used in GLOBALREGDIR and STLREGDIR$REGEDIT will be searched and used in GLOBALREGDIR and STLREGDIRwhen a registry file from above was applied REGEDIT will be set to "0" in the game config, to skip regedit on the following game starts
Unravel Two 1225570 will get a tweak config which will be autoapplied on game launch, and installs quartz and disables winegstreamer per regedit automatically and makes the game autostart ootb.
like #42 but for simplescreenrecorder (ssr)
title says it all
when using winetricks with proton wine it is much slower than with system wine.
f.e.
LC_ALL="C" PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" LD_PRELOAD="" WINE="/usr/bin/wine" WINEARCH=win64 WINEDEBUG="-all" WINEPREFIX="/media/B4-1/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/8080/pfx" winetricks --unattended d3dx9_31 d3dx9_34
takes about 6 seconds
and
LC_ALL="" PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" WINE="/media/ssdeam/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton 5.0/dist/bin/wine" WINEARCH=win64 WINEDEBUG="-all" WINEPREFIX="/media/B4-1/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/8080/pfx" winetricks --unattended d3dx9_31 d3dx9_34
takes 40 seconds - both creating a fresh WINEPREFIX.
edit: system wine is wine-5.15
proton wine is wine-5.0-667-ge9264df
Proton 4.2 wine (wine-4.2) needs 23 seconds for the same command
Proton-5.9-GE-3-ST (wine-5.9 (Staging)) needs 10 seconds
Currenlty config files from older stl versions do not get any updates automatically, so you either have to delete them so they will be re-created with all current default settings or you have to add new configurations manually.
The implementation will work like this:
On every stl call all main config files (currently, global.conf, default_template.conf and the game config of the started game) will be compared against all of their up2date available config entries - every entry missing will be added automatically to the config with the default value (usually disabled). Already existing entries will remain untouched, so 3rd party variables survive this.
The update function will be generic and therefore be used for all config files, the list of available entries will be cut direcly out of the code, so it will be always up2date in the future.
There's also no option currently to change a specific config entry for all game config files at once.
The implenentation will have a commandline option with following arguments:
stl set ENTRY (SteamAppID or "all") "VALUE"
"ENTRY" will be compared with all valid entries, if the string is not an option it will quit
if the config file for SteamAppID does not exist it will quit
there's no validity check on "VALUE"
Examples:
stl set PROTON_DEBUG_DIR_FILE 1232570 /random/path/
will set PROTON_DEBUG_DIR for the game 1232570 to "/random/path/" if the game has a config file in $STLGAMEDIR
stl set RUN_REPLAY all 1
will enable RUN_REPLAY in all game config files found in $STLGAMEDIR
edit: ping #16 (comment)
Currently there is no easy way to stl use in flatpaked version of Steam. That shouldn't be hard, here is example of other addon: https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam.Utility.protontricks
should be easy to add automatic start/stop of replay-sorcery
https://github.com/matanui159/ReplaySorcery
in the next version, so it is not required to have it permanently running as daemon if it is just used for recording gaming
will be added in next version but not before #14 is improved
not really sure if this should be inside the stl project, so leaving it here for now.
A little script which modifies every start command of all steam games
in a copy of "$HOME/.steam/steam/userdata/$STEAMID/config/localconfig.vdf" (the original file stays untouched)
to
"stl %command%"
I didn't have any problems with it, but use it on your own risk:
/usr/local/bin/STLsetDefault
#!/bin/bash
YOURID=0
SUD="$HOME/.steam/steam/userdata/"
LCVDFO="$SUD/$YOURID/config/localconfig.vdf"
LCVDF="/tmp/localconfig.vdf"
LOPT="\\\t\t\t\t\t\t\"LaunchOptions\" \"stl %command%\""
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
if [ -f "$SUD/$1/config/localconfig.vdf" ]; then
echo "argument1 $1 seems to be your steamID"
YOURID="$1"
LCVDFO="$SUD/$YOURID/config/localconfig.vdf"
else
echo "argument1 $1 doesn't seem to be your steamID - $SUD/$1/config/localconfig.vdf does not exist!"
fi
fi
if [ "$YOURID" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "you have to edit YOURID first, to match the directory name of your steamID or provide it as commandline argument 1- exit"
echo "maybe:"
find "$SUD" -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "[1-9]*"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f "$LCVDF" ]; then
echo "$LCVDF doesn't exist - copying the original"
if [ ! -f "$LCVDFO" ]; then
echo "$LCVDFO doesn't exist as well - giving up"
exit 1
else
cp "$LCVDFO" "$LCVDF"
fi
fi
sed -i '/LaunchOptions/d' "$LCVDF"
sed -i '/"Playtime"/i '"$LOPT"'' "$LCVDF"
echo "done - you might want to check if the file $LCVDF looks valid before using it!"
echo "make sure to close steam before copying the file!"
echo "create a backup of your unmodified $LCVDFO f.e. with this command:"
echo "cp $LCVDFO $LCVDFO.bak"
echo "if you dare update to the modified stl version with this command (you at your own risk!):"
echo "cp $LCVDF $LCVDFO"
maybe makes sense to add some hotkeys to the zenity gui,
so things can be applied on the fly without touching the editor
f.e. "r" for removing the WINEPREFIX of the game.
Splitting #40 into separate issues.
I'm working on an automated game configuration/import of Proton Issues game fixes.
The implementation is currently in an early stage.
A downloader for all opening reports of all issues is finished (including basic rate_limit check, as it uses the github api)
The goal is to use this as source to search for SteamAppID
issues with useful tweaks (at least winetricks or, env variables, dll overrides should be at least basically parsable) using jq.
Alternatively including search in the comments.
would nice to know if parsing the games own category is possible while launching the game.
you could auto apply settings depending on the category it is part of.
f.e. I have a "SBS-VR" category, mostly for games with built in side-by-side, but also some using Depth3D and ReShade.
Would be nice to simply drop a game into that category and all VR related settings are applied automatically without even touching the config file - and vice versa when it is no longer in that category...
the README is very complicated, while stl itself is pretty easy to use.
English is obviously not my mother tongue, and it is getting worse and worse the older I get (I am literally a linux white beard :)).
If you want to help please feel free to submit some improvements.
@alanjjenkins already offered his help when he finds the time: #16 (comment)
but the README is pretty huge, so another helping hand is very welcome! :)
Might be a nice idea to have the option to clone this repo into ~/.config/stl/downloads/stl
and use categories, regs and tweaks (for now) from there.
As almost no distro provides a stl package, the idea is that the user only has to copy stl to $PATH
manually and still can make use of the bundled config files without having to install them.
As this might look dangerous (for a reason)
I'd prefer to only use config files from there and no executables.
IMHO it would be the best if configs found here are loaded only if no global configs are found at all
and therefore would replace their status.
after a recent update SteamVR vs vr-video-player launch throws an error.
this doesn't happen when SteamVR is already running
F4se and skse64 are both functional with minor tweaking. Apparently skse64 with skyrim se is manual download of previous to latest version (I have yet to try this but friend has it working with her insane list of mods). However I have gotten fallout4 to work with f4se np. Since I kept failing to get stl vortex to run i have been making use of lutris' vortex install for mods but a manual download of latest f4se dropped into fo4 and follow this here and works fine. Possibly lose ability to use creation club in the process. Only posting because of Readme implying towards nonfunctional script extenders
Splitting #40 into separate issues.
I'm considering an automated game configuration/import of ProtonDB gamefixes.
This could be at least winetricks or, env variables, dll overrides.
Unfortunately protondb doesn't have an open api, so I'm undecided.
If you want to contribute a bash script which curls an $SteamAppID url I'd be glad to implement it.
Now that i got vortex installed correctly, there was a big old update just the other day it seems so launching of vortex pops up some fun errors with vortex.exe
attached several backtrace logs from this, however they're nearly identical, of course with the exception of the memory addresses, and shouldn't really need to be looked after the first one but as a novice, I'll just put them all in as a just in case bit.
backtrace.txt
backtrace2.txt
backtrace3.txt
backtrace4.txt
backtrace5.txt
backtrace6.txt
backtrace7.txt
I'm willing to accept that perhaps my installation technique borked it as well, but I'm keen to helping as much as possible and am set up to timeshift back to clean installs to make quick of the testing of stuff. I'll admit this vortex stuff is exactly what drew me to stl in the first place because I was having issues with lutris' version of it. On a last remark, I was able to update my aur install of stl with the two updated files not included in the currently available aur, if that makes any difference. If there's anything I can do to help
option to automatically install/setup reshade for the selected game
based on this maybe also automatically start normal games with a side-by-side shader via vr-video-player:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/gbdiyl/playing_regular_games_in_vr_works_on_linux_finally
depends on how many games require it.
Winetricks/winetricks#1263
looks like at least ONE PIECE PIRATE WARRIORS 3 (331600) does:
#38
when opening protondb with the editor the game process isn't fully released, means it is still running from steam view.
this only happens if xdg-open opens a new browser instance but not if the browser was already open before.
all other processes (stl, game, proton exit correctly).
in the test case I have seen a running
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox https://www.protondb.com/app/489830
process, after I have closed the browser, the game exited as well.
no idea how to properly fix this atm...
Might not work every time, but at least with some games it should be possible to convert incompatible videos
to compatible ones before launching.
Even if it helps in just a few games it might be worth to implement a ffmpeg function doing this.
I'm not the first one with that idea for sure
but I haven't found a working example yet to use for testing.
currently I'm implementing full side-by-side VR mode for games supporting it (at first those with native stereoscopic support, later also via Reshade side-by-side shader). this text will be more or less the description in the README when done :)
you just have to enable "RUNSBSVR=1" in the game specific config, everything else is done (almost) automatically:
~/.stl/sbs/35720.conf ):#########
#GAMENAME=Trine 2
#GAMEEXE=trine2_launcher
#GAMEID=35720
RUN_CUSTOMCMD=1
CUSTOMCMD=trine2_32bit.exe
ONLY_CUSTOMCMD=1
VRGAMEWINDOW=Trine 2
sbs configs are automatically loaded when found and override settings in the mainconfig (here: ~/.stl/35720.conf ),
so you just have to enable RUNSBSVR=1 in ~/.stl/35720.conf and everything else is configured automatically.
requirements for RUNSBSVR are:
whenever the basic functions are more ore less implemented it should get a (zenity) gui.
on game-launch a function will optionally wait for a key press for a second and will open the gui before the actual game launch.
would be nice to have automatic support for luxtorpeda, boxtron, roberta if available.
requires compatibility lists to look for matching $SteamAppId, no idea if they do exist.
https://github.com/dreamer/luxtorpeda
https://github.com/dreamer/roberta
damn, just noticed that I broke starting custom commands somewhere...
add obs support
with waiting for game window (similar soultion already implemented in sbs-vr).
I personally don't stream/record anything so no idea which features make sense here.
--startstreaming
--startrecording
--startreplaybuffer
each with an own shortcut (steam category) should do it, right?
I'm working on implementing full transparent Vortex Mod Manager support "for steam on linux"
Nexus-Mods/Vortex#2862
The ultimate goal is that the user only has to add any (Vortex supported) game into a steam "Vortex" category and everything else is setup completely automatically:
initial global installation of Vortex and dependencies, create registry entries, paths, symlinks, preconfigure global and gamespecific settings in Vortex, add nxm mime-types and so on. So the prelaunched Vortex will be (hopefully) ready to use for the currently started game. It won't be possible to start the game itself via Vortex (different WINEPREFIX), but the regular game start will start after exiting Vortex anyway, so this shouldn't be an issue.
It still has many rough edges, and therefore is not in repo yet, but basically it works pretty good already.
The only show-stopper problem is that enabled mods are not created in the games mod dir, which makes the whole construct pretty pointless atm.
There are several nexus deployment methods https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/Deployment_Methods
and looks like softlinks would be the best choice in theory for linux.
This is very likely only an issue with games on a different partition, but there must be some way to workaround this problem.
Haven't tested if bind mounting would workaround this, but it can't be a soluton to depend on root priviledges.
Also parsing the Vortex created "vortex.deployment.json" to create the symlinks after exiting Vortex and before launching the game can't be the best/a valid solution.
If someone has an idea feel free to reply here
Check if a proton version affected by ValveSoftware/Proton#170
is used when a "Script Extender" exe is found. If so suggest a patched proton which can be found here:
ValveSoftware/Proton#170 (comment)
Maybe even download via Requester option.
User should install it manually though as it requires a Steam-restart anyways.
thought a bit about this pull request
ValveSoftware/Proton#2605
and and would solve it like this (all game specific configuration options):
# set to 1 to enable the custom command STL_CMD:
#RUN_STL_CMD=0
# start this custom command:
#STL_CMD=winecfg
# start STL_CMD command with following args:
#STL_CMD_ARGS=--help
# set to 1 to only start above STL_CMD and not the game command itself:
#ONLY_STL_CMD=0
# set to 1 to fork the custom STL_CMD into the background and continue with starting %command%
#FORK_STL_CMD=0
the extra launch function would automatically check if the command itself is a windows exe and start it with the provided proton options coming from %command%
ONLY_STL_CMD could be used to replace broken launchers
at least with BioShock Remastered SteamVR is running mad in an endless loop when starting the game.
You can open it without any problems after the game is running though.
Having an option to delay starting SteamVR (and therefore also vr-video-player) would fix that.
using atd daemon would be overkill, right?
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