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Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support For More Games On Linux, Many Fixes

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After several weeks of testing Valve has released Proton 9.0-3 as the newest version of this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for being able to enjoy Windows games on Linux.

Proton 9.0-3 gets more Windows games running on Linux such as Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Flatout 3, Syberia, Unity of Command II, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, and others. Proton 9.0-3 also has many bug and regression fixes, support for Direct3D 12 within OpenXR, Wine Mono 9.2, updated VKD3D-Proton to newer Git, updated DXVK and DXVK-NVAPI to newer Git snapshots, and more.

The Proton 9.0-3 release notes mention:

- Now playable:

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (desktop only)

Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!

Banyu Lintar Angin

Dinner with an Owl,

Farlight 84

Flatout 3

KinitoPET

Owl Observatory Demo

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

Super

Sword of Convallaria

Syberia

THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION

To Pixelia Demo

Unity of Command II

Zaccaria Pinball

- Fixed 9.0 regressions:

Alan Wake's American Nightmare's DLC is playable again.

Bionic Commando is playable again.

Controllers work again in Sonic Forces.

GRID Autosport and GRID 2 are playable again.

Noita mods no longer fail to update.

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide no longer freezes randomly when processing shaders for the cache.

- Improved language support for Guild Wars 2.

- Enable controller support in the launchers of Fallout 3 (standard and GOTY edition) via Xalia.

- Fixed cutscene playback in Iragon games.

- Fixed Yakuza Kiwami not working on certain setups.

- Added support for D3D12 in OpenXR.

- Fixed AVPro playback in VRChat.

- Fixed video quality of live streamed episodes in Quantum Break.

- Fixed artifacts in Yakuza 4 Remastered opening video.

- Improved support for workshop levels in Zeepkist.

- Improved loading time of Arcanum.

- Fixed Aimlabs having broken News section.

- Fixed RAID: World War II randomly hanging on start.

- Fixed Strip Fighter ZERO not starting on some setups.

- Fixed Undecember not being playable after a recent game update.

- Fixed missing cursor in IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition.

- Fixed a crash in Starfield: Creation Kit.

- Fixed text not being displayed during the installation of EA Desktop launcher.

- Fixed "Customize Setup" not working during EA Launcher installation.

- Fixed Halo Infinite rendering using a weird resolution on a Steam Deck.

- Improved microphone support in Squad.

- Fixed License Agreement not displaying correctly in Romance of the Three Kingdoms [JP].

- Fixed FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE displaying white screen on launch on Steam Deck OLED.

- Fixed microphone not working with Helldivers 2 after a recent game update.

- Fixed freezes in Dinogen Online.

- Fixed Dinogen Online crashing randomly on start.

- Fixed SCP Secret Laboratory crashing after a recent game update.

- Fixed Burnout Paradise Remastered crashing when an input video device is plugged in.

- Improved memory usage of Burnout Paradise Remastered and lowered the chances of crashing.

- Fixed font rendering in Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.

- Fixed Once Human crashing when trying to join a server or opening the EULA on fresh Proton prefixes.

- Fixed Ubisoft Connect requiring a manual log in with a new prefix with Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (some other games may still suffer from that similarly as on Windows with a clean Ubisoft Connect install).

- Fixed The Finals not being playable after a recent game update.

- Fixed video playback in Spirit Hunter: NG.

- Improved memory usage when playing videos in 32bit games.

- Fixed font rendering in Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure.

- Fixed Steam Deck users being forced to use MTL145 nickname in Project Kunai.

- Fixed connecting with Unreal Insights to games running under Proton.

- Added a warning that appears in Proton Log for systems that have low file descriptor limit (e.g. non-systemd distributions).

- Fixed video playback in One Finger Death Punch.

- Fixed Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit crashing when reaching first boss.

- Updated Wine Mono to 9.2.0.

- Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.13-64-g47840a4bb614.

- Updated dxvk to v2.4-40-gd0ea5a4a87c9.

- Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.7.1-19-gbd542144518d.

Those building Proton from source can find it via [1]GitHub while otherwise Proton 9.0-3 should be rolling out shortly to stable with Steam Play.



[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-3



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