Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements (nerds.xyz)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/07/08/0713204/valve-releases-proton-11-with-huge-linux-gaming-improvements
- Source link: https://nerds.xyz/2026/07/proton-11-linux-gaming-ea-games-fixes/
> Valve has [2]released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that [3]makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles . The release restores compatibility for many EA games after a recent EA App update, moves classics like Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and SHOGUN: Total War from Proton Experimental into the stable release, and adds support for games including Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, and Deadly Premonition. Valve also fixed crashes in HELLDIVERS 2, restored No Man's Sky VR support, improved Steam Overlay compatibility with EA games, addressed KDE and GNOME desktop issues, and rebased Proton on Wine 11.0 with updated graphics components.
The full list of changes can be found [4]here .
[1] https://slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli
[2] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-11.0-1
[3] https://nerds.xyz/2026/07/proton-11-linux-gaming-ea-games-fixes/
[4] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
Ease Of Use? (Score:2)
I haven't tried using WINE for 20 years or more. The last time I tried it, there was major pain getting it running an dependency hell. Then, it didn't do a great job with only a few Windows programs able to run and not run well.
Does new WINE/Proton run stuff well? Is it easy to use?
Re: Ease Of Use? (Score:2)
Yes, it's fine.
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Shit, 20 years ago it was easy to install and use. I vividly remember playing Warcraft3 under Wine without any issues.
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I remember editing cfg files and copying dll files from my windows install. I'm sure it improved a lot since then.
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On basic 20 year old windows binaries. God help you for anything CAD related.
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wine you have to install and setup, while there are tools to help. steam itself install the proton and do the setup, so:
- via steam, it is just click and play for most games, you don't even know that you are using proton - [1]https://www.protondb.com/explo... [protondb.com]
- a few rare games may need switch proton version or do some finetune (try without changes, if fails see the protondb above and check if you need some version or parameter/file)
- a several FPS run fine, but them fail to check the anti-cheat (some is kerne
[1] https://www.protondb.com/explore
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wine you have to install and setup, while there are tools to help. steam itself install the proton and do the setup...
I use Fedora, so I can only talk about that. With Fedora, Wine is in the standard repos and all you need to do is tell the appropriate package management program (I use dnf, the CLI program, because it gives me the control I want.) to install wine, and away it goes, finding and installing wine and all the needed dependencies without any further work on your part except accepting the tran
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It's really easy. I'm primarily a gamer and have been completely Windows free for 3 years now. Proton runs all my games and I don't mess with them to get them running. Steam games are fully automatic, but for non-steam games you just add them into steam and tell it to use Proton.
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It is day and night difference with 10 years ago. Really good for a while already. Not 100%, but damn close.
So, we need a gaming monopoly to help Wine? (Score:2)
What seems at first like good news--has a bit of an aftertaste.
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Well if your understanding is completely backwards sure you may come to that conclusion. In reality it was Wine that was helping the gaming monopoly. Proton is a fork of Wine, it doesn't upstream its changes back to Wine, much like Ubuntu doesn't feed its changes back to Debian.
Also "monopoly" isn't a bad thing. "Monopolizing" is a bad thing. The verb, not the noun. The noun is perfectly fine providing they don't abuse their market position and start doing the verb, and currently there's little evidence the
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I disagree. Monopolies are not your friends--unless you work for them. Proton is a series of compatibility patches applied to Wine. It's also unnerving to have a single point of failure--for most of your games. I just play...wait, I can't play that either--until their servers are back online. I have been here long enough to know that there is nothing online that doesn't go down.
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Apparently, as nobody in the community seriously attempted to create Proton before Valve did. I'd be upset about it if Proton wasn't Free software, but it is! I also wouldn't call Steam a monopoly, it's just very popular.
Tangentially related: [1]https://www.gnu.org/philosophy... [gnu.org]
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.en.html
I really wish RAM prices would come back down (Score:1)
If we had some actual competition they maybe could. And I really think that Linux through the steam boxes as gaming machines could finally get some serious traction in the market.
But at $1,100 for the base model that's just too much for anyone but dedicated hobbyists. Honestly for a lot of dedicated hobbyists they're going to build their own setups for less money. Not quite as sleek of course. I mean if you want a solid home theater PC that your wife isn't going to yell at you about then the steam machi
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In the UK it's 6-700 minium to get a PC that can play new games. Easily over a grand for a slightly upgraded model or with some accessories. Sure under a $1000 would be nice but I think it's actually pretty fair value. For about 30 years now, £1000 has been the 'base' price of any reasonably acceptable PC. The tech advances but the price stays the same. I paid £1000 for a pentium 100 / 16MB in about 1995/6 now that will get you all the tech in this, play the latest games plug it
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Fair value doesn't really help though. It's about what people can afford and what other options they have.
If I was getting into gaming my first stop would probably be a used PS5 right now which you can get her around $400. If I was really broke I might dig up an old PS4. With some effort you can get those for next to nothing and they should be usable for at least another three or four years before Sony starts shutting down servers.
So I'm not saying that the steam machine is bad value in the current
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anybody that can't 'afford' it buys a PC and pirates that games. No one is buying a PS5 on a budget unless they don't want to play games.
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consoles are a scam, they are an absolutely horrible value proposition.
vendor lock in is terrible, PC is king.
Re: I really wish RAM prices would come back down (Score:2, Offtopic)
If you want a HTPC you could use a $300 mini PC until this bubble shit. Now the same machine is $500
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Those won't be able to do gaming though. The steam machine has something roughly equivalent to a RTX 4060 in it. You could get one of those cheap mini PCS on eBay for that price but it would have a low-end integrated GPU that struggles with 5-year-old games at 720P...
I know some people who gain like that but it's not anything anyone's going to really want.
If I was building something out though I could do it for about $800 right now. I Think I would struggle to do it for less but I might pull off $50
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You could pick up a Wyse 5070 for $50. They're weak processors but have UHD graphics chips and will play 4k video with hardware acceleration no problem. I stream free sites like Tubi and Pluto through Chrome without problems. Firefox works sometimes but uses way more cpu compared to Chrome.
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RAM prices aren't coming down until the AI bubble bursts. It wouldn't matter if there were another dozen companies manufacturing RAM if the global manufacturing capacity were the same. Even if some of those companies were willing to build additional manufacturing capacity, it would take years for it to come online because erecting the facilities and installing the equipment to produce the chips is also constrained.
Fortunately, everyone seems to be waking up to the fact that AI isn't a silver bullet and r
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The constant broken record....
Dude their isn't going to be a bunch of 'competition' in spaces like DRAM. The upfront capital costs to make top drawer parts is simply to high. It isnt collusion, its natural monopolies.
Nobody is going to make or finance the investment required to build high capacity world class chip fabs, to not enjoy the prime mover advantage because the risk that as soon as they do something like magnetic-IC memory gets a commercially viable implementation and leaves them bag holding a bu
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> If we had some actual competition they maybe could.
Actual competition has no impact on a supply and demand curve. There's no indication that the current prices in the market aren't competitive. There's just not enough supply to feed the hungry deep pockets of bulk demand.