This is quite an exciting release for Steam Play, as Valve just put out a brand new release of Proton.
It moves the version of Wine used from 3.16 to 4.2 which includes a rather large set of improvements by itself, so it should have quite an interesting effect on what games are now playable. What's especially nice, is that Valve said 166 patches from Proton 3.16 "have been upstreamed or are no longer needed".
That wasn't all, DXVK also saw a version bump so it's now using 1.0.1 and FAudio too joined the party with it pulling in a newer build "19.03-13-gd07f69f".
There's a bunch of other improvements too like better mouse behaviour in certain games, with Resident Evil 2 and Devil May Cry 5 specifically mentioned. Networking fixes made it in for NBA 2K19 and NBA 2K18 as well.
Controller/Gamepad duplication in games that use SDL2 like RiME should also be fixed, which I am sure many will appreciate as decent gamepad support could be something to make or break Steam Play. Any small hassle that gets fixed, is welcome.
Proton's special fullscreen "hack" should also now work with "GDI-based games", there's better support for IVRInput for controller input in VR and more improvements and new features to the build system.
As always, you can find the changelog here.
Do note though, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais said on Twitter that you will want to install it manually from Steam's "Tools" area. Griffais said "That process is supposed to be automated, but there is currently a bug with games that use another redistributable".
You can find that here, for those that don't know:
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoQuoting: mylkathere are invisible characters and walls now in the surge
3.16-4 even worse
Have You deleted the game data folder "378540" that is inside the "compatdata" folder?
Is the trial or the full version? Because the DEMO ID is 646690
didnt help
Quoting: YoRHa-2BQuoting: mylkathere are invisible characters and walls now in the surgeThis is a regression in mesa-git which affects Lords of the Fallen as well. I'm working on getting a useful test case for the driver folks to reproduce this, but it's a rather tricky issue.
As a temporary workaround you could build this DXVK branch, it was originally meant to solve a different problem but just happens to work around that driver issue as well.
one guy with nvidia has the same problem on protondb https://www.protondb.com/app/378540
so its no just mesa
Quoting: mylkaone guy with nvidia has the same problem on protondb https://www.protondb.com/app/378540That's from very old reports when it did indeed not work in DXVK. That has been fixed for a while though (IIRC in 0.94).
so its no just mesa
Please try either stable mesa or amdvlk, the game is supposed to work and Lords of the Fallen (same engine) works fine on my end with the workaround. If you think this is a DXVK regression then please find the latest version that works, I can't provide any help unless I get some useful info.
Last edited by YoRHa-2B on 27 March 2019 at 3:38 am UTC
Quoting: GuestNo Elite Dangerous yet through Proton, unless I am missing something.
Maybe you are, ED has been playable on Proton for some months now.
But you have to use a modified proton version:
https://github.com/redmcg/wine/releases/
Follow the instructions very carefully, or it will not run.
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Quoting: ThormackQuoting: GuestNo Elite Dangerous yet through Proton, unless I am missing something.
Maybe you are, ED has been playable on Proton for some months now.
But you have to use a modified proton version:
https://github.com/redmcg/wine/releases/
Follow the instructions very carefully, or it will not run.
This works with DMC Devil May Cry hmmm gonna test some more .netframe games with this
legluondunet Mar 27, 2019
But it still does not install with proton 4.2 with this game:
Batman Arkham City GOTA
L.A. NOIRE
Starwars the force unleashed
I did play Doom 2016 for several hours but with one of the recent Proton Updates it stopped working. "Stopped" means it says "Preparing to launch" and within a second it's back to syncing. A
steam steam://rungameid/379720 doesn't produce any error messages, neither does changing the Proton version result in a more successful outcome.
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