I don’t think AC is ever going to work without some workarounds to get it to start. AFAIK the only one required right now for vanilla AC is protontricks 244210 dotnet472 corefonts and then I think it will start. GE might implement a fix for that I guess but honestly the vanilla game isn’t worth playing without content manager at this point and that’s a whole multi-step process to install inside the wine prefix and in the game root outside of steam, and not something GE can do anything about.
Anyway the process is much simpler than it used to be. Here’s my notes from last time I did it about a month ago or so. I race (badly) in AC pretty much daily.
<span style="color:#323232;">Install game
</span><span style="color:#323232;">select GE-Proton8-25 (get it from github if you don't have it)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">run game and let it crash (takes like 15 minutes)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">protontricks 244210 dotnet472 corefonts (about 20 minutes)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">add fonts from here https://files.acstuff.ru/shared/T0Zj/fonts.zip (readme)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Install Content Manager in .steam/root/steamapps/common/assettocorsa/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">set launch options to c="%command%";sh -c "${c::-17}Content Manager Safe.exe'"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mkdir -p $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/244210/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/config
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ln -s $HOME/.steam/root/config/loginusers.vdf $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/244210/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/config/loginusers.vdf
</span><span style="color:#323232;">protontricks 244210 winecfg, then add library override for dwrite.dll (native, builtin)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Run game, will launch CM
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo 'Z:home'$USER'.steamrootsteamappscommonassettocorsa' then paste that in the AC location when prompted
</span><span style="color:#323232;">install your key for the full version
</span><span style="color:#323232;">install CSP, then upgrade to 0.2.2 (will say Can't find INIReader::cache when launching if you don't), then upgrade to the preview if you want.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">install anything else you want like SoL, pure, etc.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Drive!
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