CodeWeavers and Valve today released the big one many have been waiting for! Proton 5.0 for Steam Play is now live.
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This is a big jump too, with Proton moving from Wine 4.11 to Wine 5.0 bringing thousands of changes and likely increased compatibility once again. According to what's been said in the changelog, at least 207 patches from Proton 4.11 were either integrated directly into Wine upstream or aren't needed now.
Since Proton 5.0 brings in the latest DXVK v1.5.4, it also enables Direct 3D 9 to Vulkan by default now too. FAudio was also updated to 20.02, there's also improved surround sound support for older games and improved Steam client integration makes more games with Denuvo playable (Just Cause 3 now works but no saving, Batman: Arkham Knight, Abzu + more).
Overall, a very exciting update for getting more Windows-only titles playable easily on Linux through the native Steam client. Enabling more people to try out Linux and not lose access to their vast library of games.
Full changelog can be found here.
Note: If Proton 5.0 doesn't appear, you can try reloading Steam. It will also download it when you first load a game with it forced as the version for it.
Update 13/03/20 Proton 5.0-2 is out as a minor release:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
- Fix frequent crash introduced in Proton 5.0-1 related to video and audio playback.
- Fix Planet Coaster crash on launch.
- Fix Subnautica graphical issue.
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Huh, tried out Skyrim (original edition with mods), and when I quit to desktop....it actually exited the program! In the past, the process continued running when I tried to do that.
Wonder if Banished works without tweaking the sound now?
Wonder if Banished works without tweaking the sound now?
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Woa woa.... Surround sound? Since when did Linux support that?
All I could ever do was mirror stereo to the rear speakers...
That's because it wasn't an easy configurable item. None of the distros bothered to do the things described here:
https://www.halfgaar.net/surround-sound-in-linux
Been around for a while- but when your titles (Mostly open source with a few exceptions until recently- and none of the titles I did had surround capabilities...) didn't support surround...it wasn't as much of a pressing issue.
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Personally I find vanilla Wine + DXVK runs better for me anyway, but many of the fixes going into new "Proton" releases are probably already in the version of Wine I'm using.
In many cases, it was a joint venture between the Wine Devs, Codeweavers, and Valve that they happened in the first place.
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Tales of Berseria works now out of the box :)
You made my day! Was looking to buy this game for a while.
By any chance, Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes should work too!
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Very nice release, a bit unexpected for me, I thought Valve would wait for 5.2 like they did with Wine 4 ;)
Next to the actual improvements the git repositories for DXVK, Wine and I guess others are now properly rebased against upstream. This makes it much easier to see the changes Valve did since all downstream work is applied on top of upstream commits. This also make the DXVK version string useful again ;)
PS: Arkham Knight also crashes on my machine in certain situations like using the hook, though having it starting now is already a big improvement. Next big thing I'm hoping for is Read Dead Redemption 2...
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Next to the actual improvements the git repositories for DXVK, Wine and I guess others are now properly rebased against upstream. This makes it much easier to see the changes Valve did since all downstream work is applied on top of upstream commits. This also make the DXVK version string useful again ;)
PS: Arkham Knight also crashes on my machine in certain situations like using the hook, though having it starting now is already a big improvement. Next big thing I'm hoping for is Read Dead Redemption 2...
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ShinyaOsen Feb 8, 2020
God Eater 1 and 2 now launch with proton but the game has bad frame times and will crash often at least on my laptop haven't tested on my computer
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Stoney_Fish Feb 8, 2020
Tales of Berseria works now out of the box :)
You made my day! Was looking to buy this game for a while.
By any chance, Metal Gear Solide Ground Zeros should works toi!
Just tried METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES , it did not start for me.
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Wow nice surprise.finally some drm based games are working.this is awesome newsI would like to see Street Fighter V working in a near future.
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Just Cause 3 and Batman Arkham Knight?! The only 2 games I was forced to play on my Nvidia Shield.
batman was free and DRM free on epic. you could use the epic .exe on steam
i dont get it, why they make games DRM free in gog and epic, but not steam
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TheRiddick Feb 9, 2020
YAY, but really I will be super excited if we ever see Battleye and EAC anti-cheat software support in steamplay, when/if that happens it will be awesome!
Steam has offline support baked into their client. The only real concern is the multiplayer network components, I don't know if steam would release a client side server app to host such a thing if that day ever came.
(like perhaps in the event of the apocalypse and humanity is nuked to dust, we would need client side server hosting :) )
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Steam has offline support baked into their client. The only real concern is the multiplayer network components, I don't know if steam would release a client side server app to host such a thing if that day ever came.
(like perhaps in the event of the apocalypse and humanity is nuked to dust, we would need client side server hosting :) )
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I wanted to try Tales of Berseria since it works apparently, but 5.0 isn't showing up in the Proton version dropdown (even though i installed it manually). Is there something I can do to make it work?
Yes, I restarted everything I could think of. Didn't help.
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Yes, I restarted everything I could think of. Didn't help.
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Mohandevir Feb 9, 2020
Just Cause 3 and Batman Arkham Knight?! The only 2 games I was forced to play on my Nvidia Shield.
batman was free and DRM free on epic. you could use the epic .exe on steam
i dont get it, why they make games DRM free in gog and epic, but not steam
Maybe, but there is no way I'm going to create an account on Epic.
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That was the first thing I tried. I tried restarting steam, rebooting the whole system, toggling all the steam play options, etc, and it didn't work.Is there something I can do to make it work?Restart Steam.
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Just Cause 3 and Batman Arkham Knight?! The only 2 games I was forced to play on my Nvidia Shield.
batman was free and DRM free on epic. you could use the epic .exe on steam
i dont get it, why they make games DRM free in gog and epic, but not steam
that's interesting... once I had a problem with Sherlock Holmes the Devil's daugther and replacing the binaries with the drm-free gog version solved it. I wonder if the drm-free binaries can be replaced here as well, because as it stands the game is unplayable because the grappling hook doesn't work.
according to protondb some ubisoft games also work with crack, because you dont need uplay
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Another denuvo game that works is Sherlock Holmes the Devil's daughter.. Don't have time to test it extensively right now. Everything looks ok, but as with AK might have some unexpected crack countermeasures.
AK crashes in certain situations, with crash dump files and all, when e.g. using the hook. I wouldn't say this looks like a deliberate countermeasure, but just like the usual "something is still missing in Wine".
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For anyone interested: Samorost 3 doesn't work with Proton 5.0, but it works with 4.11.
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What’s nice about using GameHub is I can use Proton, DOSBox, and ScummVM with DRM free GOG games.
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Another denuvo game that works is Sherlock Holmes the Devil's daughter.. Don't have time to test it extensively right now. Everything looks ok, but as with AK might have some unexpected crack countermeasures.
AK crashes in certain situations, with crash dump files and all, when e.g. using the hook. I wouldn't say this looks like a deliberate countermeasure, but just like the usual "something is still missing in Wine".
I can grapple the enemies but with objects it just doesn't grab/attach like the grapple fires but it's trying to scratch and attach and it just doesn't stick to anything. does the same happens to you??
at least for me it doesn't crash. I think that not everyone is experiencing the same thing.
it's not wine because on wine staging this doesn't happen the last time I tried.
Thanks for the extra info, interesting. I don't see this behavior on my machine. As soon as I'm pulling the trigger for the hook the picture freezes and a message box like https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/558#issuecomment-583743788 appears.
I have to kill the game and on disk I'm finding crash dumps.
Yes, I also got it running on wine staging, though proton isn't based on wine staging, so some of the staging patches might be responsible, though dunno.
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