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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Comandante Ñoñardo 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 have A LOT of games to try for FREE.. Right now these games came to my mind:
Free TO play:
Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit.
Games with DEMO version for to download and play on Proton:
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Prey
Dishonored 2
DOOM
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ (According to Proton changelog, it works with 3.16-6 version)
Just go to the Steam DEMO section, take your time and search... you can make a lot of Protonic experiments for Free.
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Quoting: legluondunetQuoting: 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.
Even better : https://www.protondb.com/explore?page=0&selectedFilters=userTags&selectedTags=Free%20to%20Play
Last edited by Gazoche on 22 December 2018 at 3:25 pm UTC
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Arehandoro Dec 22, 2018
Quoting: FeistGrrr...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"
Fallout NV works flawlessly out of the box for me. I guess Fallout 3 will be similar.
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Quoting: ArehandoroQuoting: FeistGrrr...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"
Fallout NV works flawlessly out of the box for me. I guess Fallout 3 will be similar.
Thanks, that's nice to know. Fallout 3 is unfortunatly non working for me. I get the pre-load menu, chose play game and then I'm just stuck in a black screen until I close it. It's been the same result with every Proton update since the very first. :(
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orochi_kyo Dec 22, 2018
The only fighting game of my library that isnt working yet is Blazblue Central Fiction, sadly isnt not popular enough so Valve or any other Proton dev cares about it.
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Quoting: GuestQuoting: mrdeathjrIn this proton version...has been working since WINE 1.4, and probably still suffers from the random crash-to-desktop at the end of story 1.
.........
Lego Harry Potter 1-4....
Also, some of you may need to put "unset LC_ALL && %command%" in the launch options or it will fail to save.
:S:
Curiously in my case save without issues and pass 1st stage without issues too
Proton have various improvements compared regular wine, various titles stay more stable than vanilla wine
^_^
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Comandante Ñoñardo Dec 24, 2018
What is the practical use of
Will that option help with Bioshock 2 crashes?
PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWAREWill that option help with Bioshock 2 crashes?
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RealmSpyderYT Dec 25, 2018
^_^[/quote]
Wait Star Trek Online works?
Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, 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.
Wait Star Trek Online works?
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I really don't get why developers continue using DRM. If they want to use it, just use it for a first month or so, because then you have grabbed vast majority of the money you could get from people having enough money to buy it, but would pirate it otherwise. Others will wait for a crack (only so few games weren't cracked) and now it only hurts legit customers - worse performance or inability to run it with Proton (e.g. Grim Dawn - they have a custom "DRM" which blocks your progress and the studio [Crate] refuses to do anything about it, saying Valve should fix it which is not going to happen, since it is not that popular game :( ).
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slaapliedje Dec 25, 2018
Quoting: RealmSpyderYT^_^
Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, 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.
Wait Star Trek Online works?[/quote]
It's worked in standard Wine for a very long time, that's how I played a lot of it.
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NovenTheHero Dec 31, 2018
I wish that the LEGO games would work for me. I push play and nothing happens for me.
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