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<li>Please be aware of Spaces and escapable characters, you have to provide (mostly) windows-safe paths when calling your application.</li>
 
<li>Please be aware of Spaces and escapable characters, you have to provide (mostly) windows-safe paths when calling your application.</li>
 
<li>You must use an absolute path when calling this command.</li>
 
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<li>If cheat engine crashes (which is probable): you must restart the program to reopen cheat engine.
 
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Latest revision as of 23:47, 13 August 2024

Cheat Engine can be run on Linux through Steam using an environment variable when running commands in Proton.

Using the PROTON_REMOTE_DEBUG_CMD environment variable you can call a program while starting your command in your programs Launch Options.

For Example:

PROTON_REMOTE_DEBUG_CMD="/home/myusername/.steam/steam/steamapps/Cheat_Engine_7.5/cheatengine.exe" %command%

Because of the way proton works, some considerations need to made when declaring a path to a cheat engine executable; Notably:

  • Please be aware of Spaces and escapable characters, you have to provide (mostly) windows-safe paths when calling your application.
  • You must use an absolute path when calling this command.
  • If cheat engine crashes (which is probable): you must restart the program to reopen cheat engine.