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Steam Play Proton 5.0-5 is out with updated OpenVR, Vulkan and fixes

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Valve published Proton 5.0-5 for Steam Play which includes some helpful additions and bug fixes, should help you play those Windows-only games while quarantined.

Quite a small release overall, here's what's changed:

  • Fix crash in some games introduced in Proton 5.0-4.
  • Fix networking error in Granblue Fantasy: Versus.
  • Support for latest OpenVR SDKs.
  • Add support for new Vulkan extensions used by some recent titles. 

You can see the full Proton changelog on GitHub. Doing a little of my own testing with it this morning, it all seems to be working quite well.

Pictured: A Plague Tale with Proton 5.0-5

Like the HUD used in the above shot? That's the excellent Linux gaming overlay, MangoHud, you can see it in action in our latest article on it. Certainly makes keeping an eye on performance a lot easier.

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Boldos Mar 21, 2020
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Wonder when Doom: Eternal PROTON fix will come :D
rustybroomhandle Mar 21, 2020
Quoting: BoldosWonder when Doom: Eternal PROTON fix will come :D

Honestly it's probably less cost and effort to just release a native Linux port of Doom Eternal as they pretty much have that already. Silly id/beth though.
Whitewolfe80 Mar 21, 2020
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: BoldosWonder when Doom: Eternal PROTON fix will come :D

Honestly it's probably less cost and effort to just release a native Linux port of Doom Eternal as they pretty much have that already. Silly id/beth though.

How can no effort beat effort ? Beth dont want to port to linux so free ports via proton beat no expense whatsoever that way you get even more people buying your game.
rustybroomhandle Mar 21, 2020
Quoting: Whitewolfe80
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: BoldosWonder when Doom: Eternal PROTON fix will come :D

Honestly it's probably less cost and effort to just release a native Linux port of Doom Eternal as they pretty much have that already. Silly id/beth though.

How can no effort beat effort ? Beth dont want to port to linux so free ports via proton beat no expense whatsoever that way you get even more people buying your game.

No effort for iD means effort for the Proton team and vice versa.
iskaputt Mar 21, 2020
Quoting: BoldosWonder when Doom: Eternal PROTON fix will come :D

If it is anything like DOOM (2016), then we'll probably have to wait some weeks for the DRM to be cracked and hopefully id patching it out.

To be honest though, I don't know anything about the situation of the new title.


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awesam Mar 22, 2020
Quoting: iskaputt
Quoting: BoldosWonder when Doom: Eternal PROTON fix will come :D

If it is anything like DOOM (2016), then we'll probably have to wait some weeks for the DRM to be cracked and hopefully id patching it out.

To be honest though, I don't know anything about the situation of the new title.

Bethesda accidentally shipped DOOM Eternal together with an executable that did not have the Denuvo DRM protection, so they already did the job themselves. So at this point, they might just as well officially remove the DRM :D
ziabice Mar 22, 2020
Seems that DOOM Eternal can run using latest Proton GE: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/5.4-GE-2
gojul Mar 22, 2020
This release still does not fix the regression introduced with Proton 5.0.x preventing Skyrim from launching in windowed mode. Bug reported, but no answer. :-(
Whitewolfe80 Mar 22, 2020
Quoting: iskaputt
Quoting: BoldosWonder when Doom: Eternal PROTON fix will come :D

If it is anything like DOOM (2016), then we'll probably have to wait some weeks for the DRM to be cracked and hopefully id patching it out.

To be honest though, I don't know anything about the situation of the new title.

Apparently no bethesda released the game without any DRM by mistake and its floating about on many file sharing platforms no crack required because the exe has no protection. Obv you cant play mp (the drm was patched in today) and it wont get updated but yeah the point release version is avilable sans DRM that version probably will run just fine on proton.


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Whitewolfe80 Mar 22, 2020
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: Whitewolfe80
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: BoldosWonder when Doom: Eternal PROTON fix will come :D

Honestly it's probably less cost and effort to just release a native Linux port of Doom Eternal as they pretty much have that already. Silly id/beth though.

How can no effort beat effort ? Beth dont want to port to linux so free ports via proton beat no expense whatsoever that way you get even more people buying your game.

No effort for iD means effort for the Proton team and vice versa.

yes but the Proton team is being funded by Valve so again wheres is the motivation to port the game if beth do nothing valve pay to make it work on linux result no losses to bethesda if valve do nothing result no loses to bethesda and valve will make that money back plus profit from the money it put into proton.Which brings me neatly back to this why we are getting fewer and fewer new ports
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