steam-devices VS protonup

if you mean this ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/blob/master/60-steam-input.rules ) in /etc/udev/rules.d , yes i did

Create an udev rule for the device, you can copy the rule for your device from here.

I am attempting to play Spelunky with a controller but I am not having any luck. Spelunky has a platinum rating on protondb and runs as expected. I am in a flatpak and I did install the udev rules from valve if any of that makes a difference. My controller works fine in native games.

I solved the problem by copying the 60-steam-input.rules file to the folder: /etc/udev/rules.d

this is their Github: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices

steam maintains udev rules for controllers that might help: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/blob/master/60-steam-input.rules

Here is my open PR for the hori alpha for reference: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/pull/42/files

To use a controller with the Steam flatpak, you need to layer the steam-devices package from RPM Fusion, or download the udev rules from upstream and install them to /etc/udev/rules.d/ (which is what I did).

> The effort you need to go through to actually use these depends on how your distribution handles the file permissions of /dev/uinput. Some of them have it as root:input, in which case you just need to usermod -a -G input and then relog to get it working. Others have it as root:root so you either need to go do some reconfigurations to change its permissions or live with running the software using it as root.

There's a trick to that. The TL;DR is "install the steam-devices package or similar" (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/), which adds the following udev rule (and others, but this is the relevant one):

  # Steam Controller udev write access

For arch based distros it's in the AUR, but I also remember using some script to update it. It might have been protonup from the command line, or some bash script I had.

Adding stuff to the steam directory should not crash your system, wonder if you have some other problems. Anyway protonup is a nice little program to download GE if you are interested.

I compiled and download ProtonUp and I can't get the program to work properly. The exact issue I am facing is described here: https://github.com/AUNaseef/protonup/issues/25

ProtonUp is your friend: https://github.com/AUNaseef/protonup

Also, I highly recommend to get Proton GE, it runs even better than the Steam versions of Proton. I’ve installed it using protonup, which makes it super convenient to update!

For proton games, use proton-ge. It's installable manually, but its more convenient to use protonup and come back when it's done. For non-proton games, the proton-ge dev makes wine-ge, which you can use as a wineprefix that has patches preinstalled for a bunch of games.

Found the updater protonUP, but I’m not a huge fan of pip so idk if I’ll mess with it

Yup, it’s just a problem with steam not being able to ship Microsoft’s video format in their version of proton. It is very easy to install proton GE with protonup