CodeWeavers and Valve today released the big one many have been waiting for! Proton 5.0 for Steam Play is now live.
Looking to get started with Steam Play on Linux? Have no idea what it is? Be sure to check our previous beginners guide for some tips and explanations. We'll be keeping that up to date with any major changes.
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.
Yes, I restarted everything I could think of. Didn't help.
Last edited by Reki on 9 February 2020 at 1:16 pm UTC
Quoting: RekiIs there something I can do to make it work?Restart Steam.
Mohandevir Feb 9, 2020
Quoting: mylkaQuoting: MohandevirJust 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.
Quoting: ageresThat 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.Quoting: RekiIs there something I can do to make it work?Restart Steam.
Quoting: The_AquabatQuoting: mylkaQuoting: MohandevirJust 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
Feb 10, 2020
Quoting: The_AquabatAnother 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".
Quoting: The_AquabatQuoting: jensQuoting: The_AquabatAnother 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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