Universe Sandbox Steam

Universe Sandbox on linux using Steam

Universe Sandbox 2 is no longer available to use in Steam on linux withouty Windows emulation. Steam uses Proton to enable this.

I installed the program by first installing Steam from the program center. Dont use the Flatpak version, since Universe sandbox doesn't recognizes that is is started from steam and fails to run. The standard steam package works fine.

From steam, I installed Universe Sandbox 2.

After installation, the program gave an error om my system, saying that Direct X 11 was missing. The trick is that Steam must pass a command to proton so that it can start nonetheless. It may vary on your system as I only use an intel GPU and not a Nvidia GPU.

Go to manage, properties, general and enter 

PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%

to the launch options. After that launch the game. It takes quite some time to lau