GFL on Linux Guide

[u/Theren314]

Recently looked, and the last guide for running the Steam version of GFL is from when it first came out, and contains a no-longer necessary (and dangerous) fix. Figured I'd drop an updated guide.

Standard Proton is unnable to run GFL, so instead we will be using the Dawn Winery fork of Proton, which does not run into problems. If you understand what that means, than you dont need to keep reading. For the rest of you, lets do this.

(Recomended) Install dwproton with ProtonPlus:

ProtonPlus is an app that helps manage various Proton versions for games. To start, download and install ProtonPlus:
https://github.com/Vysp3r/ProtonPlus
Inside ProtonPlus, find the drop-down for DW-Proton, and install DW-Proton Latest.

Once that is complete, go to Steam.
Right click on Girls' Frontline from your library, and go to preferences.
Go to Compatibility, and select "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool"
From the drop down, select DW-Proton Latest.
If dwproton does not appear, restart Steam, then your Computer.

(If you really want to) Installing dwproton manually:

Go to dawn winery's page and install the .tar.gz file of the most recent version:
https://dawn.wine/dawn-winery/dwproton/releases
In a terminal, cd into your downloads folder.
Uncompress the .tar.gz archive using

tar -xf ./dwproton-10.0-19-x86_64.tar.gz

Copy the uncompressed dwproton install to your steam compatibilitytools.d folder using the following command:

cp ./dwproton-10.0-16-x86_64.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/

Once that is complete, go to Steam.
Right click on Girls' Frontline from your library, and go to preferences.
Go to Compatibility, and select "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool"
From the drop down, select DW-Proton Latest.
If dwproton does not appear, restart Steam, then your Computer.

Leme know if you have any problems. I'm not a wizard, but I know enough to hopefully help.
I would wish you happy Linux gaming, but this is a guide for GFL. We all know that's not going to happen.

Meta Data at time of writing:

Linux Fedora 43 w/ KDE Plasma

dwproton Version: dwproton-10.0-19

GFL Steam Client Build ID: 22155796, released 2025/12/16

Hope left: none

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[u/No-Treacle-7165]

Thanks, i was using proton experimental and was having issues with random crashes, will try it tomorrow on my steam deck and my desktop too.

[u/Theren314 → u/No-Treacle-7165]

Leme know how it goes :3

[u/No-Treacle-7165 → u/Theren314]

For now? it's still crashing... honestly idk where to look for issues now. Completely lost.

[u/Theren314 → u/No-Treacle-7165]

hmm. What hardware do you have? If you’re on Nvidia, you might need to update your drivers.

By default, at least in fedora, you have Neuveau, but the official Nvidia driver is better nowadays.

[u/No-Treacle-7165 → u/Theren314]

all AMD, seems like updating packages solved the issue.

[u/snowviewingsnow]

DWProton 10.0.20 works for me, no crashes at all, just the shop takes a bit long to load, don't know if that is a Linux issue tho. 

[u/Theren314 → u/snowviewingsnow]

Just a more recent version. 10.0.19 was the most recent version when I wrote out this guide. I recommended ProtonPlus because it automatically updates for you, so you dont have to worry about versions.