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.
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The gnutls update gives me a bit of hope for stuff behimd the uplay drm.
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buenaventura Dec 21, 2018
awesome, I am very excited about Dishonored 2!
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Comandante Ñoñardo Dec 21, 2018
Quoting: buenaventuraawesome, I am very excited about Dishonored 2!Don't forget that Denuvo was removed recently...
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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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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.
Never used Proton before and don't want to buy win games just for testing.
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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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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.
Surprised you've never accumulated any Windows titles from Bundles, e.g. Humble, Fanatical (Bundle Stars), or elsewhere.
Quoting: massatt212DOTA
DOTA has a native Linux version so it is not a suitable candidate for Steam Play / Proton.
Having a look at Steam's own Free To Play list, I searched on What's Being Played and here are a few titles that are not native Linux which you could consider:
Path of Exile, Warframe, Trove, Eve Online, Neverwinter, Quake Champions, Minion Masters, Gems of War, Fallout Shelter, Stronghold Kingdoms, Blockpost, Bit Heroes, Soda Dungeon, Pixel Puzzles Ultimate.
Personally I tried Fallout Shelter on Proton, only a few days after Proton was released and that worked fine.
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slaapliedje Dec 22, 2018
Yeah, not sure why Dota was mentioned, since it is native. If you are into MMOs, Star Trek Online I found to be fun (and I don't really like most MMOs.)
Need to try LEGO Super Heroes 2 again to see if the sound effects are still missing. Weird that the voices and music are there, but no sound effects.
Need to try LEGO Super Heroes 2 again to see if the sound effects are still missing. Weird that the voices and music are there, but no sound effects.
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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.
Get LEGO: LotR for free in the next 12 hours. You can keep it permanenty.
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SystemShock Dec 22, 2018
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.
You can try Brawlhalla. It is a free online competitive Platformer with full controller Support.
And its fun :-)
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Strange that Proton stable still defaults to 3.7.8 and not to 3.16.4...
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Shadow of Tomb Raider demo almost works, this version of proton fixes the sound issues for me, but Lara still has those grey spots in her skin... Game runs OK, 45FPS in the benchmark 4K@high using 1080 Ti.
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whit this WARFRAME RUN OUT THE box no need any tweaks
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legluondunet Dec 22, 2018
Quoting: medveNot a good idea for a "Proton Beginner": launch the game, show the logo screen then crashed.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.
Get LEGO: LotR for free in the next 12 hours. You can keep it permanenty.
You have to install directx9 with winetricks in the Proton game prefix...
Thormack take a look at this database:
https://www.protondb.com
to know if a game is Proton compatible.
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Grrr...I wish they could hurry up and make "Batman: Arkham Asylum & City" playable/whitelisted. "Sleeping Dogs", "Mafia II & III", "GTA IV & V" are also titles that I wish they'd prioritize for the whitelist. Same thing with "Fallout III/NV/4"
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Quoting: g000hQuoting: 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.
Surprised you've never accumulated any Windows titles from Bundles, e.g. Humble, Fanatical (Bundle Stars), or elsewhere.
Quoting: massatt212DOTA
DOTA has a native Linux version so it is not a suitable candidate for Steam Play / Proton.
Having a look at Steam's own Free To Play list, I searched on What's Being Played and here are a few titles that are not native Linux which you could consider:
Path of Exile, Warframe, Trove, Eve Online, Neverwinter, Quake Champions, Minion Masters, Gems of War, Fallout Shelter, Stronghold Kingdoms, Blockpost, Bit Heroes, Soda Dungeon, Pixel Puzzles Ultimate.
Personally I tried Fallout Shelter on Proton, only a few days after Proton was released and that worked fine.
Warframe Works Now ? hmmm
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