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