Just before the weekend appears, we have the brand new Proton 3.16-8 beta available for Valve's Steam Play. This release includes some mighty fine fixes and updates.
The major upgrade this time around, is bumping DXVK to the 1.0 release. DXVK 1.0 had quite a lot of improvements all around, check the changelog for that here if you're interested. The gist of it is that you should see even more games become compatible and there's some performance improvements too.
There's also a very handy fix for Unity games, where a lot of them had the mouse pull down towards the bottom-right of the screen which should hopefully no longer happen.
For those playing online games, a networking fix also made it into this release with Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet specifically mentioned but others should see improvements too.
Steamwork API support was also improved for both old and new games, with Battlerite mentioned directly.
Finally, they noted "fixes" (they weren't specific) for DX9 games on certain hardware which includes titles like Final Fantasy XI.
As always, find the full changelog here.
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Steam team made big progress for Far Cry 3, the game is now considered as "Silver". It's not perfect yet, you have to disable Uplay overlay and the game did not exit cleanly, you have to kill manually Uplay and some other process. But with Proton 3.16-8 the game is playable in Directx11 mode.
https://www.protondb.com/app/220240
Like others, you need to use a crack to avoid Uplay.
I had to install a crack to play the game due to uplay not working.
Works fine with a crack (Withnot Uplay)
I used a crack to remove Uplay. Without Uplay it works perfectly.
Runs out of the box if you install the Crack.
i wonder if this works with all ubisoft games. its clearly not allowed, but does steam/ubisoft sees it and maybe ban your account?
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downloading :D
I like the fact that know proton appears as a game update
i never installed proton as a tool and now i can select 3.16-8, but DXVK wasnt 1.0
after i installed proton as a toll its DXVK 1.0
why have they changed this?
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i wish they solve the Mad Stuttering from Shader Cashe
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cookiEoverdose 10 Mar 2019
Nice, finally a mouse fix. Drifting Lands is now playable :D
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Now I need a brand new Nvidia driver..
Why the PPA team takes so long?
This PPA? https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
It has 418, but you have to running 18.04, 18.10, or the 19.04 beta. I'm on 16.04, so I only get 415 drivers - but pretty much a great experience so far. I didn't see anything in 418 that was particularly game changing to be honest.
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Last edited by scaine on 10 Mar 2019 at 10:05 am UTC
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I like the update. Project CARS - Pagani Edition now works :D Finally a decent version of the Nordschleife on Linux.
Now they just need to get Assetto Corsa also working... and Elite Dangerous, with VR...
Now they just need to get Assetto Corsa also working... and Elite Dangerous, with VR...
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qptain Nemo 10 Mar 2019
What's the easiest way to check the version of the bundled DXVK?downloading :D
I like the fact that know proton appears as a game update
i never installed proton as a tool and now i can select 3.16-8, but DXVK wasnt 1.0
after i installed proton as a toll its DXVK 1.0
why have they changed this?
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somebody1121 10 Mar 2019
What's the easiest way to check the version of the bundled DXVK?downloading :D
I like the fact that know proton appears as a game update
i never installed proton as a tool and now i can select 3.16-8, but DXVK wasnt 1.0
after i installed proton as a toll its DXVK 1.0
why have they changed this?
Just put on the launch options of a dx11 game: DXVK_HUD=version %command%
You should see the version on the top left corner.
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Does this fix the Windows Media Foundation errors with Resident Evil 2 and 7? It was requiring some manual config to get those running and it would be nice to have it auto.
Also, fixing games with Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) would be a nice benefit too.
Also, fixing games with Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) would be a nice benefit too.
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slaapliedje 12 Mar 2019
I always wonder if we'll ever get support for the extra settings like that.Which is acually the best Nvidia Driver to use Proton?418.43
I actually use the 396.54 for my 1070TI
Is also has transform feedback which allows e.g. hairworks in The Witcher 3
For example, PhysX in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, or the Physx in Borderlands. Or the hair effects in Tomb Raider, etc.
I still need to get past that first boss in Witcher 1...
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Comandante Ñoñardo 14 Mar 2019
In the meantime, Linux has lost usage in the Steam Hardware Survey of February
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In the meantime, Linux has lost usage in the Steam Hardware Survey of FebruaryThat´s true ... but in absolute numbers the User-count grewth. See what Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais said about it a few weeks ago:
"The overall percentage still has a lot of ground to make up, but the number of Linux gamers on Steam continues to grow at a similar rate as those playing on Windows," Steam developer Pierre-Loup Griffais told Engadget. "It looks like there might actually be an increase trend in Linux gamers starting from October when we released the new Steam Play [Proton] beta, but it's too early to tell if it's had a real lasting impact.”-> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-number-of-linux-gamers-on-steam-continues-to-grow-according-to-valve.13604
Additional we have actually an increase of chinese gamers (caused by the launch of Apex Legends). We see here a similar high impact like with PUBG from the chinese Gamers (traditonally highly tagged to Windwos) to the Linux Share:
-> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linux-marketshare-on-steam-dropped-again-in-october-as-china-takes-a-massive-chunk-of-the-market.10651
Numbers of the survey regarding the used Language:
English: - 2,41%
Simplified Chinese: +3,54%
Traditional Chinese: + 0,17%
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walther von stolzing 14 Mar 2019
With today's re-released update, I see Proton entries in my 'installed games' view in the Steam library.
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I have to say I'm really impressed with the performance of Wine. After the first episode of hitman has been released for free i couldn't wait for the possible linux port so i tried it. While the shader compilation frustrated me for a while (it only ever occured in Hawke's Bay though, not on any of the legacy maps), it all in all runs quite well, just loads a little slower and on a bit lower quality than the feral port. That said, i hope it will appear on the Feral radar, so i can play it on full settings and i can buy the remaining episodes and DLCs, as Feral and IO are two of my favourite companies. (and i really like hitman, i mean, i even installed wine to play it :)
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