EAC on Steam Deck / Proton / Linux

Someone claims it runs on Steam. I tried with Proton experimental, but it didn't work. I'm not on Arch and don't know how to get -TKG, but maybe someone is more tech savy than me and can try. I only added EAC folder to binaries, didn't do any other tinkering, maybe I'm missing something.

I found him on Steam and sent an invite to ask questions. Sadly, I'm going on a sudden travel due to personal emergency and won't be back till Sunday. I hope a solution can be found by then. I really feel like my ability to deal with life's woes would improve if I could run around fixing gens.

I posted a request on his profile. I hope we get to play soon. :)

Just to clarify a full multiplayer match? You've been able to play against bots and do the tutorials for a while.

GG!

Would you be able to explain the steps you did to run it. Did you build Proton TKG from source etc?

Nikodemo will probably update the OP.

I'll try the tkg right now, you can download the package here: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/wine-tkg-git/actions/runs/3530509191

Then just copy the extracted folder to .local/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d and force the game to run with it (in your steam library right click the game then properties>compatibility, check the checkbox and select the tkg proton from the dropdown menu)

Yeah I can confirm I just loaded into a game without needing to do anything. proton 41 no need for TKG.

I had an EAC update on first loading steam. Looks like the devs have fixed it.

No launch parameters. no fancy tweaks. just loaded in

Yeap! Thank you devs! took way too long. But I can finally play on my main account!

I was also able to play with GE 7.41, the only launch options I had was driver related because my other driver was crashing when entering a game, my other change was also copying the EasyAntiCheat Folder into Win64 but I didn't test without it. no PROTON_EAC_RUNTIME needed

Launch Options:

VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json %command%

it finally works completely, it goes without other options 'someone needs to report to steam proton that it works now

Yaaay , delete that windows 11 NOW! I deleted it too, finished!

Can confirm it works “out of the box” with GE-Proton, Proton Experimental (and likely stable too) and Proton-Tk. No need for symlinking/copying the EasyAntiCheat folder either.

I have, however, noticed that the Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime is still required to be installed, but Steam doesn’t install it as a dependency of DBD. But that’s likely just something that Behaviour can ask Valve or do themselves so that users don’t need to manually install it.

@Mandy I assume the team is probably doing some final testing before making it official? Or possibly waiting for the Steam Deck verification badge? You can probably get it really easily, considering this is a big game and Valve likely wants it verified ASAP.

Thanks for all your hard work, on behalf of the Linux community, we appreciate any dev that doesn’t dismiss us.

Thanks so much, it just works on Steam now! <3 Finally I can ditch Windows :D

Have a great day and even more fun playing!

I just played an entire multiplayer game on the Steam Deck through Steam. I did use ProtonGE, but I don't know if it is necessary. Just make sure you have "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime" installed in your Steam Library under the tools section.

There are also Steam Deck buttons used in the main menu UI, so they might officially announce Steam Deck support soon.

It just shows like the menu button and the other button. Similar to this picture. Other buttons look like the regular xbox ABXY etc.

Just so you’re aware, this works just fine through Wine.

I just ran the installer with wine in the wine prefix where DbD is installed, then ran the exe in AppData/Local/Programs with wine again and installed a pack.

Booted up the game and the custom portraits are there.

If the project can manage wine installations by itself with a Linux binary at some point it would definitely be a UX improvement, but you can definitely use this right now without issues

Obviously you need to set the WINEPREFIX correctly, you can probably just export it in your terminal session so you don’t need to keep defining it.

I ran the same wine binary that the game uses, so in my case it was in the compatibilitytools.d folder, using GE-Proton. Go inside the folder of the Proton you’re using, then files/bin/wine.

That being said, I’ve skimmed through the source code of that tool and it seems rather simple. Since the app is in a Wine prefix with the same folder structure as windows, it could just be a case of adding a different code path to find wine installations instead.

I might give it a shot, since most of the times these developers say they’ll wait for demand, but then ignore every single future request for support

I took a pic

hey! why ur graphics look better than my? i use ultra preset and my graphics not good as ur

today i play few game, but after reboot pc I'm again have 500 error =(

Same.... disconected from the match and error 502....

I also get disconnected, Trying to play with bots I enter for a few seconds then I get disconnected

lol finally installed it today after reading it works on the steam deck and it still disconnects with eac error …