I’ve finally started having some free time lately and have been working through my Steam library, most of which is Windows games I’m playing with Proton.

I wanted to install some mods, and wanted a mod manager for this. Nexus Mods has Vortex, which is not available for Linux. In any case, running Windows games on Linux through Proton on Steam is fairly specific; the game files will be at certain locations on a Linux filesystem, not at the same locations as they would be on a Windows filesystem. So I think I would need software that has specifically been designed for this use-case (Windows games from Steam running on Proton).

Are there any such mod managers out there? What do other people do when playing games on Linux? I can’t be the only person who wants to play video games with mods.

  • Lucki@feddit.org
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I tested in these games - ls -1 "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mod-manager":

    • Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.toml
    • Cyberpunk 2077.toml
    • FlatOut 2.toml
    • Gotham Knights.toml
    • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.toml
    • Ready Or Not.toml
    • Stellar Blade.toml
    • The Witcher 3.toml
    cat "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mod-manager/Gotham Knights.toml" 
    active = "my"

[my]
mods = [
    "nocape",
    "upscaler",
]

[upscaler]
# https://github.com/cdozdil/OptiScaler
# v0.7.7-pre9
mods = ["OptiScaler"]
[upscaler.environment]
WINEDLLOVERRIDES = "version=n,b"

[nocape]
mods = [
    # https://www.nexusmods.com/gothamknights/mods/330
    "BatGirl Cape Off",
]
    tree "/mnt/games/mod-manager/Gotham Knights/" 
    /mnt/games/mod-manager/Gotham Knights/
├── BatGirl Cape Off
│   └── Mercury
│       └── Content
│           └── Paks
│               └── ~mods
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Demon_26_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Demon_26_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Demon_26_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Eternal_13_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Eternal_13_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Eternal_13_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_KnightOps_41_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_KnightOps_41_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_KnightOps_41_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Metal_36_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Metal_36_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Metal_36_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_NeonNoir_22_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_NeonNoir_22_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_NeonNoir_22_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_NewGuard_5_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_NewGuard_5_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_NewGuard_5_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Privateer_31_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Privateer_31_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Privateer_31_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Shinobi_46_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Shinobi_46_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Shinobi_46_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Titan_9_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Titan_9_P.ucas
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_Titan_9_P.utoc
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_YearOne_18_P.pak
│                   ├── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_YearOne_18_P.ucas
│                   └── BatGirl_Cape_OFF_YearOne_18_P.utoc
└── OptiScaler
    └── Mercury
        └── Binaries
            └── Win64
                ├── amd_fidelityfx_dx12.dll
                ├── amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll
                ├── D3D12_Optiscaler
                │   └── D3D12Core.dll
                ├── libxess.dll
                ├── libxess_dx11.dll
                ├── nvngx.dll
                ├── OptiScaler.ini
                └── version.dll

    No idea why that tree is broken in monospace - it works in the preview, sorry!