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Show and change a game's Wine prefix, find Proton prefixes in any library - #35

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Game settings gets a Wine tab for every Windows game on Linux. It shows the prefix Vortex uses and where it came from (Steam, Heroic, Lutris, Bottles, Wine's default or your own choice), and lets you pick another folder. Vortex refuses a folder with no drive_c, and for Steam games one that isn't Proton's pfx folder.

Launchers keep starting games in their own prefix, so the tab warns that a different folder there only moves the game's INI and plugin files and where tools run.

Vortex also looks for a Steam game's Proton prefix in every Steam library, because Steam can keep it away from the game (for example after a move to an SD card). Game data and launching both failed in that layout. A game that really has no prefix gets a message asking to start it once from Steam.

The error message and README pointed at a Dashboard button that the default layout doesn't have (#22), so they now point at the new tab.

Release 2.10.1-2.

The prefix can be picked under Game settings, Wine, instead of through an environment variable in the Tools page's Edit dialog. The error message pointed at a Dashboard button that the default layout doesn't have.
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Steam can keep the prefix in another library than the game, as after moving it to an SD card. Vortex only looked next to the game, so game data and launching both failed.
The Wine tab now covers launcher games too and shows which prefix is in use and where it came from. Launchers keep starting games in their own prefix, so the tab warns about that.
@Arkazzae Arkazzae changed the title Let a game added by hand choose its Wine prefix Show and change a game's Wine prefix, find Proton prefixes in any library Nov 9, 2026
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