Hi everyone I have recently started modding GTA IV, and needed dotnet48 to work for some mods.but as many of you may know current proton(4.11<) doesn’t allow dotnet48 download. I scoured the internet and have found a work around. Originally posted on reddit
But I’ve condensed it to be easier to follow and decided to post here because I’m sure there are many reasons to need it for proton
Make a copy of the original …/gameid as a backup
use command: cp -RLv steam-path/gameid/pfx/drive_c/windows steam-path/gameid/pfx/drive_c/windows.dereferenced
remove steam-path/gameid/pfx/drive_c/windows
use command: mv steam-path/gameid/pfx/drive_c/windows.dereferenced steam-path/gameid/pfx/drive_c/windows
use command: protontricks appid -q -f dotnet48
use command: protontricks --gui
winecfg - change W7 to W10
Edit: the only thing that would be annoying about this I found so far is the pfx folder size goes from like 300mb to 1.6gb
It doesn’t normally no that’s why it’s called a work around I have GTA V I will download it and try it out. Althought theoretically it should work if you do the steps mentioned above. This work around was originally done to get wemod to work on Linux and wine which requires dotnet48