Compatdata Delete

Compatdata Delete

Sometimes Steam/Proton requires that a compatdata dir of a game needs to be manually removed after a proton update.

The steamtinkerlaunch function Recreate Proton compatdata technically does this as well, but is too bloated for a simple deletion.

To make things easier the option Delete pfx (DELPFX) can be used (via Game Menu)

to automatically remove everything in the compatdata of the game (so usually the whole pfx and its corresponding proton config files) directly before the game is started. Steam will create a fresh one automatically then.

Always good to have Backup Support enabled generally, but when DELPFX is enabled, steamtinkerlaunch also creates a backup of the current steamuser dir if not.

This function is also available as Steam Category