Steam Play Proton 4.11-4 has been released into the wild

Will be testing Resident Evil 4 and Remnant: From the Ashes this weekend.

Newer Unity titles still don't render unfortunately (Telling Lies, A Place for the Unwilling, Dry Drowning).

two games on my bucket list I'd like to work better (apart from EAC/Battleye stuff),

Gothic3-FGEE and Space Engineers, both of these games have 'significant' issues relating to performance.

Might do a couple APITRACE in windows10 for them and upload that, might help somewhere down the line.


Last edited by TheRiddick on 14 September 2019 at 5:24 am UTC

Reckon I'll give Fallout 4 another shot to see if they've improved the mouse capture in that game.

Allot of the mouse capture issues are related to people with more then 1 monitor, which apparently is not many of us. This results in the problem being prevalent apparently since testing is mostly done on single monitor setups.


Last edited by TheRiddick on 14 September 2019 at 6:58 am UTC

Just discovered that Masters of Anima (which currently costs only 5€) works perfectly. I'll test it a bit more, then do a report on the Proton github.

Then I'll test Gothic 3 with the fresh D9VK: last version didn't work at all and with WineD3D performance was bad.

Also I started playing the old adventure Gray Matter, which also works like a native game: that is impressive because, if I recall correctly, it needed some tricks under regular Wine.

Allot of the mouse capture issues are related to people with more then 1 monitor, which apparently is not many of us. This results in the problem being prevalent apparently since testing is mostly done on single monitor setups.

Yep, all of my mouse issues are when my pointer would leave the right edge of my primary game screen and appear on the left edge of my non-game screen.

For Fallout 4, I can work around the problem slightly by repositioning the virtual layout of my monitors to be above/below each other. It doesn't actually fix the issue, but you're much less likely to look directly up while playing! When you do, you'll still get the freeze as the mouse 'leaves' the game space, but it's much easier to deal with.

[EDIT: Well, this proton has no effect on Fallout 4's mouse capture - I still freeze when my mouse leaves the main window. BUT, see my edited comment below for a pretty sweet workaround. Obviously, it would be better if Wine/Proton actually handled multi-monitor better though.]


Last edited by scaine on 14 September 2019 at 12:12 pm UTC

Allot of the mouse capture issues are related to people with more then 1 monitor, which apparently is not many of us. This results in the problem being prevalent apparently since testing is mostly done on single monitor setups.

Yep, all of my mouse issues are when my pointer would leave the right edge of my primary game screen and appear on the left edge of my non-game screen.

For Fallout 4, I can work around the problem slightly by repositioning the virtual layout of my monitors to be above/below each other. It doesn't actually fix the issue, but you're much less likely to look directly up while playing! When you do, you'll still get the freeze as the mouse 'leaves' the game space, but it's much easier to deal with.

Couldn't you just disable one of the monitors before you start the game?

I'm still trying to get in-game sound working in Watch Dogs. All suggestions on protondb don't seem to help, so I'll try it with this Proton update and see...

Allot of the mouse capture issues are related to people with more then 1 monitor, which apparently is not many of us. This results in the problem being prevalent apparently since testing is mostly done on single monitor setups.

Yep, all of my mouse issues are when my pointer would leave the right edge of my primary game screen and appear on the left edge of my non-game screen.

For Fallout 4, I can work around the problem slightly by repositioning the virtual layout of my monitors to be above/below each other. It doesn't actually fix the issue, but you're much less likely to look directly up while playing! When you do, you'll still get the freeze as the mouse 'leaves' the game space, but it's much easier to deal with.

Couldn't you just disable one of the monitors before you start the game?

Would mean moving all my windows back over when I'm done... not sure if that's more of a hassle to be honest! I'll do some tests this weekend though and report back.


Last edited by scaine on 14 September 2019 at 7:09 am UTC

Allot of the mouse capture issues are related to people with more then 1 monitor, which apparently is not many of us. This results in the problem being prevalent apparently since testing is mostly done on single monitor setups.

Yep, all of my mouse issues are when my pointer would leave the right edge of my primary game screen and appear on the left edge of my non-game screen.

For Fallout 4, I can work around the problem slightly by repositioning the virtual layout of my monitors to be above/below each other. It doesn't actually fix the issue, but you're much less likely to look directly up while playing! When you do, you'll still get the freeze as the mouse 'leaves' the game space, but it's much easier to deal with.

Couldn't you just disable one of the monitors before you start the game?

Would mean moving all my windows back over when I'm done... not sure if that's more of a hassle to be honest! I'll do some tests this weekend though and report back.

I am not sure I understand what you mean? Are your app's windows tied to the specific monitor? I would expect they would be on their own separate virtual workspace and just disabling a monitor won't move anything.

Oh... or do you have just one workspace stretched across two monitors?

Allot of the mouse capture issues are related to people with more then 1 monitor, which apparently is not many of us. This results in the problem being prevalent apparently since testing is mostly done on single monitor setups.

Yep, all of my mouse issues are when my pointer would leave the right edge of my primary game screen and appear on the left edge of my non-game screen.

For Fallout 4, I can work around the problem slightly by repositioning the virtual layout of my monitors to be above/below each other. It doesn't actually fix the issue, but you're much less likely to look directly up while playing! When you do, you'll still get the freeze as the mouse 'leaves' the game space, but it's much easier to deal with.

Couldn't you just disable one of the monitors before you start the game?

Would mean moving all my windows back over when I'm done... not sure if that's more of a hassle to be honest! I'll do some tests this weekend though and report back.

I am not sure I understand what you mean? Are your app's windows tied to the specific monitor? I would expect they would be on their own separate virtual workspace and just disabling a monitor won't move anything.

Oh... or do you have just one workspace stretched across two monitors?

Yep, exactly that. Hmmm, you have me thinking though - I could just put Steam into its own workspace and then turn off the monitor? Options. At my PC now. I'll have a play about.

[EDIT: Well, that worked pretty well. I put Steam in a separate workspace, turn off the second monitor, play Fallout 4 flawlessly, then turn the monitor back on again when I'm done and switch back to my "main" workspace - all my windows are correctly positioned. Excellent!]


Last edited by scaine on 14 September 2019 at 12:11 pm UTC

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/steam-play-proton-411-4-has-been-release-into-the-wild.15011/comment_id=164471

I tested Proton 4.15 GE (which has d9vk on by default) and Gothic 3 still is very sluggish, so I guess improvements won't come fast. I also tested it on intel and got exactly the same frame rate so it doesn't seem to be GPU related.

mmh, the mouse related changes don't work well together with a Wacom tablet, quite some games either crash or hang. All is fine again when switching to a "normal" mouse. Time to open an issue report...

Edit: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3059


Last edited by jens on 15 September 2019 at 7:19 am UTC

The Tomb Raider series on DOS and Win9x. (Not the awful remake)

Will be testing Resident Evil 4 and Remnant: From the Ashes this weekend.

haven't tested RE4 yet, but RE5, RE7 and revelations 1 and 2 all of them work, RE7 needs the media foundation fix.

They do? I didn't purchase them (the complete resident evil franchise have a Steam Sale right now) since only 4 seams to work without lots of workarounds and problems according to protondb.com. You should upload your info for those there!


Last edited by F.Ultra on 14 September 2019 at 2:09 pm UTC

Will be testing Resident Evil 4 and Remnant: From the Ashes this weekend.

Remnant is great! I've played multiple playthroughs (20+ hours) and the only issues with Proton I know of is the character model not showing on the main menu, and having to launch with PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 %command%
I had maybe 2 loading screen crashes total, but that seems to happen on Windows as well.

Apparently some people had their saves corrupted so I made sure to manually backup mine, never had an issue with it tho.

Hope there's more content coming soon, as the game is pretty short.

Yea it's one hell of a game. Hard as nails though (10 hours in and have just come to the root mother). Haven't experienced any crashes yet so I'm feeling lucky!

Why do I not see 4.11-4. I am still on 4.11-3?

You have a typo in the title. It should be released

Thanks.

@everyone, please note this bit "For spelling, grammar and other corrections to our article—click here" -> above the comments, using that for corrections helps us get to it faster as comments are missed often.

Reckon I'll give Fallout 4 another shot to see if they've improved the mouse capture in that game.

I play that with 360 pad as i figure its an action rpg rather than a shooter so more console like but i get if people have to play with keyboard and mouse.