This seems like a long shot, since the mods are inactive and the last post was 6 months ago. But anyway, I'm trying to get AoE2 Definitive Edition to run on Proton, and I'm getting an error message 'Steam must be running' when I launch the game. Far as I can tell, it works just fine on Windows. Anybody have any advice?

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[–] [S] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

Tried all the current version releases from cs.rin. ru. Same issue with all of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago*

    Hmm 3 things come to mind:

    • did you remember to install vcrun2017 using protontricks?
    • did you try the Goldberg Emu directly?
    • If that doesn't work, you might try e.g. the Ankergames release, which only needs extracting instead of installing (maybe something gets borked at install time), which might help (still need to install vcrun2017 in the prefix)
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