Valve are moving fast with Steam Play updates! Just today they've released the Steam Play 3.16-1 beta which is a pretty big deal. Also, the 3.7-8 minor update is now in the stable channel for everyone.
Once again, it's typical of this all to land (DXVK update and now this!) after I've already done the weekend roundup. Certainly not complaining though, far from it, the excitement levels over here just exploded.
I was expecting a Steam Play update soon, given how I've been tracking the commit log seeing Wine and more being updated, didn't quite expect Valve and CodeWeavers to work so quickly and on a weekend too. This just goes to show how important it is and how dedicated they are to improving Linux gaming.
As usual, you will likely need to restart Steam to have the new Proton beta available. Here's the changes in all their glory (changelog link):
- Rebased Proton patches onto Wine 3.16.
- Updated Vulkan support in Wine to 1.1.86, plus support for transform feedback.
- DXVK has been updated to 0.81 plus support for transform feedback which should fix missing models in many D3D11 games. This requires new driver support. DXVK release notes can be found here: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v0.81
- DXVK's d3d10 mode is now enabled by default.
- DXVK is now built as a native Linux library, which may give a small performance boost, and should make debugging easier for DXVK and driver developers.
- Missing textures for models in some VR games has been resolved.
- Ask the window manager to bypass the compositor in fullscreen mode. This may improve performance in some situations.
- All new makefile-based build system.
As you can see, it's a pretty massive change. Previously, Steam Play's Proton was based on Wine 3.7 so it was quite outdated. They also removed any Mac support for it.
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Arehandoro 13 Oct 2018
Impressive!
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that was fast. nvidia just got the vulkan beta drivers out with the transform feedback support.
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I hope they'll update drivers in SteamOS just as fast.
Meanwhile, Debian is stuck with 390.
Meanwhile, Debian is stuck with 390.
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I hope they'll update drivers in SteamOS just as fast.
Meanwhile, Debian is stuck with 390.
Experimental is not as evil as it sounds and has got 396.54 at the moment:
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/nvidia-driver
I did install from experimental several times and didn't run into problems.
Of course: no guarantee.
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I hope they'll update drivers in SteamOS just as fast.
Meanwhile, Debian is stuck with 390.
Experimental is not as evil as it sounds and has got 396.54 at the moment:
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/nvidia-driver
I did install from experimental several times and didn't run into problems.
Of course: no guarantee.
396.54 doest give you transform feedback. you need 396.54.09
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How do I get the Proton beta updates? They don't show up for me...
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With these changes they could whitelist quite a lot of games soon!
Witcher 3 being first , many Unity games included. Also Quake Champions.
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How do I get the Proton beta updates? They don't show up for me...Did you restart Steam as mentioned?
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How do I get the Proton beta updates? They don't show up for me...Did you restart Steam as mentioned?
I've restarted twice, still on 3.7.8. These beta versions have never appeared to me before? Do I have to enable something before?
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How do I get the Proton beta updates? They don't show up for me...
Hi Roberto,
You have to restart the Steam Client 1 or 2 times, then you should see it in the Steam Play section.
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How do I get the Proton beta updates? They don't show up for me...
got to settings
in the account tab at the bottom you can change to beta participation
in steamplay you can switch between versions of proton
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legluondunet 13 Oct 2018
DXVK's d3d10 mode is now enabled by default.
Does not work for me, Bioshock 1 starts in directx9 mode and I can not activate directx10 from graphic menu options.
I verified my Steam config and it already uses Proton 3-16 beta version per default.
Last edited by legluondunet on 13 Oct 2018 at 4:25 pm UTC
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DXVK's d3d10 mode is now enabled by default.
Does not work for me, Bioshock 1 starts in directx9 mode and I can not activate directx10 from graphic menu options.
This game works in DX10 mode in my case with wine but dont on proton
^_^
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nadrolinux 13 Oct 2018
I tested S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky few minutes ago and finally DX10.1 mode works properly.
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Experimental is not as evil as it sounds and has got 396.54 at the moment:
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/nvidia-driver
I did install from experimental several times and didn't run into problems.
Of course: no guarantee.
I used to run unstable/experimental in Potato/Woody times, then got older and switched to testing. Now I don't have enough time to play, not to mention tinkering, so it's stable, with backports when I want some excitement :)
Edit: back on the topic, Lego Batman 3 works in DX10 mode, no glitches, no black screen issues.
Last edited by skinnyraf on 13 Oct 2018 at 4:39 pm UTC
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I used to run unstable/experimental in Potato/Woody times, then got older and switched to testing. Now I don't have enough time to play, not to mention tinkering, so it's stable, with backports when I want some excitement :)
Same here! :-D
Still got my hamm CDs (bought in a Linux friendly bookstore) at the shelf. :-)
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DXVK's d3d10 mode is now enabled by default.
Does not work for me, Bioshock 1 starts in directx9 mode and I can not activate directx10 from graphic menu options.
I verified my Steam config and it already uses Proton 3-16 beta version per default.
You'll need DXVK 0.90 for Bioshock DX10. Prior DXVK versions deliberately disable DX10 for that game, see https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/655#issuecomment-423975629 and https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/655#issuecomment-429395806
Proton 3.16 uses DXVK 0.81 with cherry picked transform feedback support though I'm pretty sure DXVK 0.90 will land soon in Proton too.
Last edited by jens on 13 Oct 2018 at 6:50 pm UTC
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I hope they'll update drivers in SteamOS just as fast.
Meanwhile, Debian is stuck with 390.
Sadly true. But actually they use LTS drivers (I regularily talk w/ NVidia drivers maintainers). 396 drivers are not LTS while 390 are.
Actually it is only a problem for MGS V and for the few people who use a RTX 208x card (due to the insane prices they must be very few).
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DXVK's d3d10 mode is now enabled by default.
Does not work for me, Bioshock 1 starts in directx9 mode and I can not activate directx10 from graphic menu options.
I verified my Steam config and it already uses Proton 3-16 beta version per default.
You'll need DXVK 0.90 for Bioshock DX10. Prior DXVK versions deliberately disabled DX10 for that game, see https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/655#issuecomment-423975629 and https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/655#issuecomment-429395806
Proton 3.16 uses DXVK 0.81 with cherry picked transform feedback support though I'm pretty sure DXVK 0.90 will land soon in Proton too.
No 0.90 is dont need, only need dxvk from here (no transform feedback required)
https://haagch.frickel.club/files/dxvk/r1646.8172d34/32/
^_^
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DXVK's d3d10 mode is now enabled by default.
Does not work for me, Bioshock 1 starts in directx9 mode and I can not activate directx10 from graphic menu options.
I verified my Steam config and it already uses Proton 3-16 beta version per default.
You'll need DXVK 0.90 for Bioshock DX10. Prior DXVK versions deliberately disabled DX10 for that game, see https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/655#issuecomment-423975629 and https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/655#issuecomment-429395806
Proton 3.16 uses DXVK 0.81 with cherry picked transform feedback support though I'm pretty sure DXVK 0.90 will land soon in Proton too.
No 0.90 is dont need, only need dxvk from here (no transform feedback required)
https://haagch.frickel.club/files/dxvk/r1646.8172d34/32/
^_^
Version 0.90 contains more than transform feedback, see [https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v0.90](https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v0.90). Please note the Bioshock bullet.
And yes, compiling from source or grabbing a nightly build from somewhere is an option too.
Last edited by jens on 13 Oct 2018 at 5:36 pm UTC
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