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Keeping this separate since you mentioned drivers... just in case you're a nvidia user like me, the popshop wouldn't let me install drivers beyond 470.256.02 and it's STILL prompting me to install it despite my manual installation of 565.77

That was the duct-tape I was referring to. I'm not sure what the average user experience is for Nvidia drivers, but might as well get all the eggs in a row, eh?

I'm not sure if this'll help, but here's my limited understanding...

Each game that you run on Steam via each separate version of proton, and I think this includes wine in general, will be running its own windows environment and that includes its own dependencies. So if you added VotV to steam as a non-steam game and try to run it with Proton, it will set up this new environment without any dependencies like C++... DirectX... .Net Framework, etc... Probably something like that.

So it's super important in the case of steam to... Hover over the game title in your library -> RMB -> Properties ->Shortcut -> Target -> Browse -> [/home/freyr05/Games/pa0082_0012/pa0082_0012/WindowsNoEditor/Engine/Extras/Redist/en-us/UE4PrereqSetup_x64.exe] -> Click PLAY

The above is the route to my destination. It ran an installer and I let it do its thing. It looks like I tried running every other .exe available before realizing I needed to reinstall Steam from the terminal rather than the PopShop.

If you get an error message beyond the C++ one, then it'll be related to the Steam installation, but for now try doing the above if things still aren't working.

BONUS - Windows Environment Location: /home/freyr05/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/3915131074/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/VotV... The .steam folder will be hidden by default so make sure you enable display hidden files in your file explorer. You might know this, but I'll add it for incoming users as well. Numerical location might be different; I organized by most recent folder since it was brand new as a cheat.

I also actually wasn't sure if the initial paragraph was true, so as a test I ran VoTV under Proton 8.05 (fresh) and it prompted the installation process of C++. It actually auto-ran the installer this time? Maybe because I'm using the alternative version of Steam now? Hard to say, but I hope some of this helps in any capacity.

This broke the seal for me, so I finally decided to figure out why Steam wasn't working for me but worked for some people...

When I first installed Linux, I somehow installed 2 versions of Steam - the deb and the flatpak version.

Apparently flatpaks have less privilege and this is causing issues. So I purged both! I did it in an incredibly awful way as I bounced through tutorials, initially doing
[dpkg --list]   ... Yes I manually purged anything that said Steam, I think this was mayhaps not the best option as when I installed steam with [sudo apt install steam], it didn't even boot anymore. Yikes!

So naturally I searched for my problem and found this steam thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/3094509155628372846/

I'm sure there was some redundancy, but I followed 1, 3, 5, 6, then input [steam] into the terminal. It worked! I noticed it removed more libs than I had managed with my initial purging, probably related XD
EVEN BETTER, THE GAME BOOTED! I don't know if that's because previously I had run the UE4PrereqSetup_x64.exe and finished the installation, which got rid of my C++ runtime error, but that's what learnin' on the jobs all about.

I noticed exit didn't work, so there will likely be some issues. Someone mentioned on reddit that their TV didn't work?

I hope this helps my Linux homies out there. I'm using Pop OS LTS with some duct-tape to make Nvidia work. Best of luck!

Edit: I forgot to mention, I also run it with Compatibility: Proton Experimental

Whenever I press H, the hud disappears. Very cool , I love being able to toggle the hud on and off, except it's a one-way switch. I've pressed every key individually and attempted a lot of combiniations with H, but I couldn't get the hud to return. Meaning I can't see my magic, upgrade my stats, learn spells, etc. Is this just a bug on my end?

It'd be really cool if it went through 3 stages too, being full, minimalistic, and none.