There's a brand new Steam Play Beta version out with FAudio, also a Steam Play whitelist update

By Liam Dawe - 11 December 2018 at 8:20 pm UTC

The day I'm sure many have waited for has arrived, a new Steam Play beta has been officially released today which includes the important FAudio project. On top of that, even more titles have entered the Steam Play whitelist.

Don't know what the heck Steam Play is? The "too long; didn't read" is that it enables you to play a lot of Windows games on Linux.

Linux game porter Ethan Lee, one of the forces behind FAudio also created an "FAudio for Proton" page to read over to give you a lot more information on what it actually is and what it does. In short: more games should work, more games should work better and it may introduce new issues so keep an ~~eye~~ ear out.

First up, here's the changes for Proton 3.16-5 beta:

Completely new implementation of XAudio2, using the FAudio project. This should provide much higher quality audio for games that use XAudio2. Notably, this now supports volume mixing and audio effect processing features that were missing from the old implementation.
Better support for embedded Chromium-based web browsers. Games and launchers that contain an embedded web browser may now work better.
Update DXVK to 0.93. Also include a fix for some Unity VR games when run with DXVK, like SUPERHOT VR and Job Simulator.
Compatibility improvements for changing paths between Linux and Windows using the Steam API. Among other things, this should fix Steam Controller icon images in certain games.
Minor fixes for PulseAudio users with certain hardware.
For developers, optional support for Vagrant, which should ease the process of creating Proton build VMs.

The changelog for Steam Play's Proton can be found any time on the GitHub Wiki. To access it, you will likely need to re-start Steam for it to be picked up.

Additionally, Valve announced the whitelist was updated with 29 more titles that should "just work". These are:

20XX
A Case of Distrust
Anime Dress Up
Apocalipsis
AstroPop Deluxe
Avernum 3: Ruined World
BEEP
Botanicula
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
Crash Dive
Dragon Cliff
First Strike: Final Hour
Football Tactics & Glory
Infinos Gaiden
Long Gone Days
Mad Tower Tycoon
Meteor 60 Seconds!
Mushihimesama
O.C.D. - On Completeness & Dissonance
Objects in space
Puzzle Agent 2
Rusty Lake Hotel
Rusty Lake Paradise
Rusty Lake: Roots
SYMMETRY
Solstice
Stronghold HD
Subsurface Circular
Tactical Monsters Rumble Arena

The whitelist is there so that you can just install them like any other game. For games not on the whitelist that you wish to test, you can check the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" box in the Steam Play section of the Steam client settings.

And I thought this was going to be a pretty normal week…

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Proton, Beta, Steam, Valve

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About the author - Liam Dawe

I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly.
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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 12 December 2018 at 11:14 am UTC

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garpu Dec 11, 2018

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Quoting: GuestOnly unknown games in the whitelist, that’s disappointing.

Avernum's cool. Then again I like everything Spiderweb's put out.

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Faalagorn Dec 11, 2018

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Quoting: GuestOnly unknown games in the whitelist, that’s disappointing.

Puzzle Agent 2, Stronghold HD and Botanicula are old, but not that unknown too.

Great to see the FAudio finally there though!

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tuxintuxedo Dec 11, 2018

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Although the Linux version of Botanicula is not on Steam, but it still exists. I would have preferred something that is not available in any way natively.

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sub Dec 11, 2018

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Quoting: tuxintuxedoAlthough the Linux version of Botanicula is not on Steam, but it still exists. I would have preferred something that is not available in any way natively.

Good point.

I remember Amanita Design saying that they are working on a new engine (Twitter). Not 100 % sure, but I also remember they want to replace it also for the older games.

Wasn't Machinarium re-released with a new engine?

Maybe Liam can get back to them on that topic. :)

EDIT:

Oh yeah, Machinarium got a new engine last year and I remember saying them,
the want to support Linux again following that route.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/22/machinarium-rebuild/

It's just that I haven't heard anything again.

Last edited by sub on 11 December 2018 at 9:02 pm UTC

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dude Dec 11, 2018

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Praise the sun! I mean DxVK.. too much Dark Souls 3
Thanks 4 that.

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Nezchan Dec 11, 2018

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Avernum 3, but not the other games in the series? That's weird, especially given the low overhead of the games.

I can definitely say I haven't had problems with Avernum 5 or 6 via Proton and afaik all have a platinum rating.

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Happy to see new improvements for Proton. As soon Proton will know how to play wma/wmv, a lot of Windows games could be whitelisted (Darksiders, Dark Souls, Age of Empire 2 HD, Final Fantasy XIV....)
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1464

Last edited by legluondunet on 11 December 2018 at 9:39 pm UTC

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wazz4657 Dec 11, 2018

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Quoting: GuestOnly unknown games in the whitelist, that’s disappointing.

Idk...Mushihimesama is pretty big news for Cave fans. Although I can vouch that all the Cave games on Steam work great. I see your point though.

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Faalagorn Dec 11, 2018

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After I did some testing, guess I'll repost what I originally posted on ProtonDB, for posterity:

Seems 3.16-5 is still not added to ProtonDB - quite a few games got some progress, including Elite: Dangerous (some, but not all fixes were merged), Dead Rising 3 and possiblyt others having audio now (but crashes), UE games not needing winetricks for audio to work properly (Red Orchestra 2 for example), 3D Mark starting (but can't get the actual tests to run), Just Survive and Just Survive Test Server launcher starting (but servers are dead) and my wife can play Dysan: The Shapeshifter now

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