Starting at version 11.4 proton-ge now appends a system arch suffix to AMD64 release artifact names

cloudymax commented

2026-09-30 02:52:06 -07:00

Contributor

Previously, in versions up to 11.3 the format was:

GE-Proton11-3.tar.gz

Starting with version 11.4 the format is now:

GE-Proton11-4-x86_64.tar.gz

This change causes a bit of chaos in the version constructor here:

# download the archive from github, placing it in the temp directory 
echo Downloading $version.tar.gz from github
curl -Lso "$tempdir/$version.tar.gz" "https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/download/$version/$version.tar.gz" || Failed "Failed to download $version, exiting"

I hard-coded x86_64 in on my end as a work around but as there are more ARM64/aarch64 devices that can run Steam showing up is may make sense to do the old trick of setting an $arch variable at startup

Previously, in versions up to 11.3 the format was: - `GE-Proton11-3.tar.gz` Starting with version 11.4 the format is now: - `GE-Proton11-4-x86_64.tar.gz` This change causes a bit of chaos in the version constructor here: ```bash # download the archive from github, placing it in the temp directory echo Downloading $version.tar.gz from github curl -Lso "$tempdir/$version.tar.gz" "https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/download/$version/$version.tar.gz" || Failed "Failed to download $version, exiting" ``` I hard-coded `x86_64` in on my end as a work around but as there are more ARM64/aarch64 devices that can run Steam showing up is may make sense to do the old trick of setting an `$arch` variable at startup

girlnamedzero commented

2026-09-30 16:05:02 -07:00

Owner

Thanks for the heads up! That is definitely annoying, I'll have to see what I can do about that. I've been considering rewriting this in C, so I'll probably make a big release soon with this fix. Although, if I do, that does mean I'll need to figure out how to cross compile C for ARM.

If you wouldn't mind, I'd greatly appreciate it if you send the current changes you've made and/or mark where you made changes to the current implementation.

Thanks for the heads up! That is definitely annoying, I'll have to see what I can do about that. I've been considering rewriting this in C, so I'll probably make a big release soon with this fix. Although, if I do, that does mean I'll need to figure out how to cross compile C for ARM. If you wouldn't mind, I'd greatly appreciate it if you send the current changes you've made and/or mark where you made changes to the current implementation.

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girlnamedzero commented

2026-09-30 16:26:19 -07:00

Owner