Valve have one more Steam Play update out before the end of 2018 with 3.16-6

By Liam Dawe - 21 December 2018 at 10:22 pm UTC

Today, Valve put out the last Steam Play update of 2018 with Proton 3.16-6 beta now available for fun times.

After you excitedly unwrap your present, you will find (changelog here):

Support for gnutls >= 3.0, which should fix many networking issues with games. Note the Steam runtime doesn't ship this yet, so your distribution will need to provide it. For users on distros that don't provide this, Steam Play will still use the Steam runtime library as before. When the Steam runtime is updated, this will be available for all users. In our testing, we saw improvements in Eve Online, DOOM (2016) multiplayer, and HELLDIVERS.
Other networking fixes, too. In particular, Hitman 2 and Metal Gear Solid 5 should now be working online.
DXVK is upgraded to 0.94. In addition to the DXVK release notes, Dishonored 2 and Middle-earth: Shadow of War appear to be working with this release.
Configurable support for forcing the LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE mode. This can help some games which run out of memory when run in Steam Play, for example Bayonetta.
Further improvements to FAudio.

To access it, you will need to find this section of the Steam client settings (you likely need to restart Steam):

The update to gnutls is quite an exciting one, hopefully that will sort out multiplayer in quite a number of titles where it didn't work before in addition to the other networking fixes.

Great to see Valve and co work so diligently on making Steam Play and Linux gaming better together. It's certainly exciting to follow development. I'm sure this will make a number of you happy to tinker with over the holidays.

I can confirm that DOOM multiplayer does indeed now work fine on Ubuntu 18.10:

If you want me to test other games in future, feel free to gift me a game any time.

As always, feel free to report your findings in our comments.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Proton, Steam, Valve

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Skyrim: SE will no longer freeze on the main menu, no NPC voices in the intro yet.

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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 22 December 2018 at 2:29 am UTC

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wvstolzing Dec 21, 2018

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The gnutls update gives me a bit of hope for stuff behimd the uplay drm.

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Liam Dawe Dec 21, 2018

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DOOM multiplayer now works fine.

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buenaventura Dec 21, 2018

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awesome, I am very excited about Dishonored 2!

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Comandante Ñoñardo Dec 21, 2018

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Quoting: buenaventuraawesome, I am very excited about Dishonored 2!

Don't forget that Denuvo was removed recently...

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massatt212 Dec 22, 2018

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Quoting: Guestthats the problem with alot of these games,they need to remove the drm,i mean the publishers.there is no reason to have drm especially if its on steam,you need the darn client to run the games anyway.

When the Game Get Cracked They Dont need Steam Thats why they use DRM
Multiplayer Games Have no worries with it|
But Single Player Titles suffer the Most

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Thormack Dec 22, 2018

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Guys, could you recommend some nice free-to-play windows games?

Never used Proton before and don't want to buy win games just for testing.

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massatt212 Dec 22, 2018

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DOTA

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Quoting: ThormackGuys, could you recommend some nice free-to-play windows games?

Never used Proton before and don't want to buy win games just for testing.

Neverwinter is pretty fun and works well in Proton, although you may need to change your mouse polling rate.

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