diff --git a/proton b/proton
index 3a9422a..e4ef2c2 100755
--- a/proton
+++ b/proton
@@ -102,39 +102,15 @@ class Proton:
         self.user_settings_file = self.path("user_settings.py")
         self.wine_bin = self.bin_dir + "wine"
         self.wineserver_bin = self.bin_dir + "wineserver"
-        self.dist_lock = FileLock(self.path("dist.lock"), timeout=-1)
 
     def path(self, d):
         return self.base_dir + d
 
     def extract_tarball(self):
-        with self.dist_lock:
-            if not os.path.exists(self.dist_dir) or \
-                    not os.path.exists(self.path("dist/version")) or \
-                    not filecmp.cmp(self.version_file, self.path("dist/version")):
-                if os.path.exists(self.dist_dir):
-                    shutil.rmtree(self.dist_dir)
-                tar = None
-                for sf in ["", ".xz", ".bz2", ".gz"]:
-                    if os.path.exists(self.path("proton_dist.tar" + sf)):
-                        tar = tarfile.open(self.path("proton_dist.tar" + sf), mode="r:*")
-                        break
-                if not tar:
-                    log("No proton_dist tarball??")
-                    sys.exit(1)
-                tar.extractall(path=self.dist_dir)
-                tar.close()
-                try_copy(self.version_file, self.dist_dir)
+        return True
 
     def make_default_prefix(self):
-        with self.dist_lock:
-            local_env = dict(g_session.env)
-            if not os.path.isdir(self.default_pfx_dir):
-                #make default prefix
-                local_env["WINEPREFIX"] = self.default_pfx_dir
-                local_env["WINEDEBUG"] = "-all"
-                g_session.run_proc([self.wine_bin, "wineboot"], local_env)
-                g_session.run_proc([self.wineserver_bin, "-w"], local_env)
+        return True
 
 class CompatData:
     def __init__(self, compatdata):
@@ -396,8 +372,6 @@ class Session:
 
         self.env["WINEDLLPATH"] = g_proton.lib64_dir + "/wine:" + g_proton.lib_dir + "/wine"
 
-        self.env["GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0"] = g_proton.lib64_dir + "gstreamer-1.0" + ":" + g_proton.lib_dir + "gstreamer-1.0"
-        self.env["WINE_GST_REGISTRY_DIR"] = g_compatdata.path("gstreamer-1.0/")
 
         if "PATH" in os.environ:
             self.env["PATH"] = g_proton.bin_dir + ":" + os.environ["PATH"]