Protontricks not working

Installed Protontricks, however it spits out the following when i attempt to open any prefix:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/hikikomorgan/.local/bin/protontricks", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
             ^^^^^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 32, in cli
    main(args)
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 159, in wrapper
    return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 339, in main
    proton_app = find_proton_app(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 848, in find_proton_app
    tool_app = find_steam_compat_tool_app(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 609, in find_steam_compat_tool_app
    appinfo_sections = [
                       ^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 531, in iter_appinfo_sections
    raise SyntaxError(
SyntaxError: Invalid file magic number. The appinfo.vdf version might not be supported by the current version of Protontricks - please check for updates.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/hikikomorgan/.local/bin/protontricks", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
             ^^^^^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 32, in cli
    main(args)
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 159, in wrapper
    return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 339, in main
    proton_app = find_proton_app(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 848, in find_proton_app
    tool_app = find_steam_compat_tool_app(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 609, in find_steam_compat_tool_app
    appinfo_sections = [
                       ^
  File "/var/home/hikikomorgan/.local/share/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 531, in iter_appinfo_sections
    raise SyntaxError(
SyntaxError: Invalid file magic number. The appinfo.vdf version might not be supported by the current version of Protontricks - please check for updates.

i haven't done anything otherwise that should be fucking up any dependencies for it -- does anybody have any leads or insight?

11 Replies

matt_schwartz•5mo ago

Beta or stable steam client

hikikomorganOP•5mo ago

beta, i assume that's the issue then?

matt_schwartz•5mo ago

think so game recording changed the file structure for one of the configs Protontricks reads

hikikomorganOP•5mo ago

word. i'll switch back to the regular client and try again ahh bet

termdisc•5mo ago

use the Protontricks from the flathub beta repo

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub-beta com.github.Matoking.protontricks

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub-beta com.github.Matoking.protontricks

hikikomorganOP•5mo ago

ah sick! same issue, so i'm going to go back to the stable client

termdisc•5mo ago

are you sure you're running the protontricks from that instead of the one installed as part of the OS? because I'm running the game recording beta as well the flatpak beta one does not override the one provided as part of Bazzite

hikikomorganOP•5mo ago

i actually managed to get it well, at least it opened through the gui -- so i'll just make sure i point to that version if it doesn't work off the bat in the command line

termdisc•5mo ago

if you're opening it from the start menu, try the second one that shows up. if you're running it as a command line, it's flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks --gui

termdisc•5mo ago

termdisc•5mo ago

the second one here is the flatpak

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