Steam lacks a compatdata dir?

Question

A lot of guides pertaining to getting Age of Empires 2 to run under Steam Proton suggest dropping dlls into ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32, however while I have a

~/.steam/steam/steamapps/

I do not have a

~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata

What ever happened to compatdata?

Do you have any other Steam apps using Proton? I'm running Worms Armageddon with Proton 3.16 and that directory is there. — ajgringo619, Dec 24 '19 at 04:55
OK - did you tell your Steam client to use Proton for Windows games? It's under Settings --> Steam Play. — ajgringo619, Dec 24 '19 at 04:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '20 at 00:18

This is an old one, but I just run into this and thought it might help someone:

In Linux if you have Steam installed but you are using another hard disk or location for an extra library where you install the games, the default location wont exist:

~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata

You can find it using the following method:

Right click Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition in the Steam Library
Go to Properties
In the window, click the LOCAL FILES tab
Click the BROWSE LOCAL FILES button
Go up two directories, to the steamapps one
There you can find the compatdata that was missing. The rest of the path is the same.
Backup the ucrtbase.dll file in the system32 folder
Copy the ucrtbase.dll from the vc_redist.x64.exe

TL;DR: Go to your

"custom Steam Library path"/steamapps/comptdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 24 '19 at 05:00

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If this directory does not exist, you can force Steam to create it,

Go to library
Right click on the game
Go to "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool"
Click Proton 4

Then it'll save and install proton to your steam directory.

answered Dec 24 '19 at 05:00

Evan Carroll

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