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 Previously, Steam Play's Proton was based on Wine 3.7 so it was quite outdated.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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Quoting: GuestUse the nvidia driver from the web site. The run file is simple to use. Debian has many nvidia packages and they are old, buggy and difficult to remove. With the run file there just one command.
There's three packages to speak of at the moment, 384.130, 390.87 and 396.54. Any of these failed for you? What did you find hard about purging them? What's hard about about apt-get install nvidia-driver? I always recommend taking the distribution packages, because these guys and girls have the same input data as you have from e.g. Nvidia - and more knowledge about their distribution than you and me.
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoFor some reason, Bioshock 2 doesn't work anymore.. It just crash.
for me its batman origins and a new beginning
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Quoting: skinnyrafQuoting: EikeExperimental 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 :)
And as sometimes happens... I had graphical glitches in Rumu yesterday, tried the Nvidia drivers from experimental and ended up with a whole black screen. Well, rollback was successful. I should always store the packages updated in a text file, this made it easier. (Rumu is better started with LANG=C at the moment, and it might be fragile after taking screenshots.)
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Power-Metal-Games Oct 14, 2018
This is just great! I imagine what will be in few months. Even Microsoft joined us. 
Meanwhile, I can't even install Steam. I get the message: "You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libstdc++.so.6", blah, blah.. I tried everything that I find but nothing helps. Probably I destroyed my Ubuntu 18.04 by adding who knows how many different PPAs so maybe I should reinstall the OS and stop doing stupid things again.
Anyway, not a big deal because I work almost all the day, but I guess it's great when you see all this by yourself. :D
Meanwhile, I can't even install Steam. I get the message: "You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libstdc++.so.6", blah, blah.. I tried everything that I find but nothing helps. Probably I destroyed my Ubuntu 18.04 by adding who knows how many different PPAs so maybe I should reinstall the OS and stop doing stupid things again.
Anyway, not a big deal because I work almost all the day, but I guess it's great when you see all this by yourself. :D
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Quoting: Power-Metal-GamesThis is just great! I imagine what will be in few months. Even Microsoft joined us.
Meanwhile, I can't even install Steam. I get the message: "You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libstdc++.so.6", blah, blah.. I tried everything that I find but nothing helps. Probably I destroyed my Ubuntu 18.04 by adding who knows how many different PPAs so maybe I should reinstall the OS and stop doing stupid things again.
Anyway, not a big deal because I work almost all the day, but I guess it's great when you see all this by yourself. :D
You probably just need to install some missing dependencies. I made a meta-package for Mint 19.x/*Ubuntu 18.04 to install most commonly required dependencies if you're interested in trying that & seeing if it helps: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_try_linux_repostrewrite/post334
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Power-Metal-Games Oct 14, 2018
Quoting: adamhmYou probably just need to install some missing dependencies. I made a meta-package for Mint 19.x/*Ubuntu 18.04 to install most commonly required dependencies if you're interested in trying that & seeing if it helps: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_try_linux_repostrewrite/post334
Thank you very much! I tried it, but it's not solving the problem.
When launched, Steam is asking to install some dependences.
Steam needs to install these additional packages:
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
Then says that these packages have unsatisfied dependencies: (something like that in my language)
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 : depends on: libllvm6.0:i386 (>= 1:6.0~svn298832-1~)
At the and I get the same error that I mentioned.
But, it's not important. I will maybe reinstall this system soon. I'm not beginner. I already tried many times to solve this, but nothing helped. Thank you anyway!
Last edited by Power-Metal-Games on 14 October 2018 at 2:24 pm UTC
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Quoting: Power-Metal-GamesWhen launched, Steam is asking to install some dependences, tries to do it and says that packages are broken etc. At the and I get the same error that I mentioned.
That's a bit different then :P Try opening Synaptic Package Manager (it's installed by default on Mint but IIRC it needs to be installed separately on Ubuntu) and check for broken packages with Custom Filters --> Broken. You can try fixing them by doing Edit --> Fix Broken Packages
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Power-Metal-Games Oct 14, 2018
Quoting: adamhmQuoting: Power-Metal-GamesWhen launched, Steam is asking to install some dependences, tries to do it and says that packages are broken etc. At the and I get the same error that I mentioned.
That's a bit different then :P Try opening Synaptic Package Manager (it's installed by default on Mint but IIRC it needs to be installed separately on Ubuntu) and check for broken packages with Custom Filters --> Broken. You can try fixing them by doing Edit --> Fix Broken Packages
I tried what you suggested, but nothing helps. Damn thing refuses to work. Synaptic says that there is no broken packages. At the and nothing changed..
Never mind... I will reinstall the OS when I have the time, and that will certainly not be so soon. But, advantage is that DXVK will be even better until that time. :P
Thank you again for your suggestions! ^_^
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Draconicrose Oct 14, 2018
I'm still salty that the 396 drivers don't support my graphics card (GT 730) but they support the laptop version (GT 730M). ?
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This is exciting news, but I don't fancy building mesa and applying the patches myself. So I'm going to wait for them to land in mesa-git.
Also seems like changing DXVK to a system library (while potentially faster) is causing some headaches especially for SteamOS users who need an update.
Hope we can get all these issues ironed out for stable release. Can't wait to get testing :D
Also seems like changing DXVK to a system library (while potentially faster) is causing some headaches especially for SteamOS users who need an update.
Hope we can get all these issues ironed out for stable release. Can't wait to get testing :D
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