feat: add proton config info

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@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ export default defineConfig({
label: "Install",
autogenerate: { directory: "user/install" },
},
{
label: "Usage",
items: [{ slug: "user/usage/proton" }],
},
],
},
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---
title: Proton
description: Use Proton to run your Windows game on Linux at near-native speeds.
---
Drop's Proton configuration depends on:
- UMU launcher (more specifically the `umu-run` binary)
- **another application** to download and manage Proton versions
## Installing UMU launcher
Install UMU launcher through their own guide on [their GitHub repo](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher?tab=readme-ov-file#packaging). It covers packaging for a variety of distro. If you're not covered, give it a Google search, or open an issue on GitHub or Discord and we'll try to help you.
To check it's installed, try running `umu-run` from your terminal.
:::note
If you're using Distrobox, it might be a little more complicated to install.
If you've installed it **outside** of Distrobox (recommended), it should work out of the box.
If you've install it **inside** of Distrobox, you'll have to export it, and figure out how to pass through your GPU and drivers.
:::
## Downloading other Proton versions
You can download other Proton versions from a variety of sources:
- Directly from the project, typically in a GitHub release
- Through Steam, which downloads official Proton versions
- 3rd-party application
For the 3rd-party application, we recommend [ProtonUp-Qt](https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt), an open-source GUI application that supports quite a few different versions of Proton.
## Detecting Proton versions
Drop searches the following places for Proton versions:
- `/usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/`
- `~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/`
Most applications support reading and writing to these directories for Proton versions, as they're Steam directories.
Drop can also pick up other Proton versions, if you manually add them.
:::note
To be discovered by Drop, the folder you provide, or any folder in one of the above directories **must**:
- have the `proton` binary
- have a `compatibilitytool.vdf` file
:::
## Using Proton versions
:::caution
To launch any Windows game, you **must** first set a default Proton version.
:::
Drop uses a global default Proton version to launch games by default. You can override this in a game's options.
![Screenshot showing how to override the proton version](./proton-options-override.png)