what proton can i use for age of empire 2

[SMURF' Grandagg]

HELP I USE ALL the protons and none of them work for me.

[Shaggy]

Ask in the games own forum..

[SMURF' Grandagg]

Messaggio originale di Shaggy:

Ask in the games own forum..

How do I get to that forum?

[Thordred]

https://www.protondb.com/app/813780

[Thordred]

Messaggio originale di Grunky06:

I recently bought the game and was trying to make it work on my system, after looking into many possible solutions what worked for me was basically this:

-I used the custom Proton compatibility version in this link: https://github.com/ArkanosisNet/aoe2.arkanosis.net/releases/tag/proton-8.0-2c-10-aoe2-wa1

-I enabled the Beta version [pup_may_june] (the only available to me).

-I used the following command in the setting game launch option: %command% NOSTARTUP SKIPINTRO

Singleplayer is working without problems, I'm gonna test the multiplayer and will update if it's necessary. I hope this can help anyone else that is trying to run it.
Edit: I have all the DLCs except for Return of Rome.

Messaggio originale di Tempires:

Go to the game properties for Age of Empires II in Steam:
- Select [Compatibility]
- Enable [Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool]
- Select [Proton Experimental] from the list.
- (Optional) Add 'SKIPINTRO' to the list of command line arguments: the intro doesn't work as reliably with newer Proton versions.
Then, search for 'Proton Experimental' in your library, and:
- Install it if it's not already installed.
- Go to [Betas]
- Select [bleeding-edge] from the list.

[Temniy]

Since 2023-06-27 and the release of update 87863, Age of Empires II : Definitive Edition is broken on Linux (including on the Steam Deck) and macOS.

A fix is available in the “bleeding-edge” beta branch of Proton Experimental. Or we can use custom build of Arkanosis's Proton 8.0-2 which includes a workaround.

Discussions of these fixes are available here
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3189#issuecomment-1613741966

There we come to the conclusion that the fixes in Proton Experimental work, but are applicable only to those users whose GPU supports Vulkan 1.3. And those who used Proton 7.0 still can't run the game.

So that means that from now on, a GPU that supports Vulkan 1.3 is required to play AoE2:DE.

Maybe someone steps into backport the upstream Proton fix or workaround to Proton 7 (which is most likely feasible).