Valve and CodeWeavers continuing the long task of improving the Proton compatibility layer (based on Wine) for Steam Play, and today a new Release Candidate went up for some testing.
Following the same pattern they did for Proton 5.0-6, you can now opt into the Proton 5.0-7 beta on Steam. This will help the developers catch any major issues before rolling out a new version of Proton for everyone. They're looking to find issues that are new in this latest testing version.
To get in on the testing, find Proton 5.0 in your Steam Library and opt into the "next" Beta like shown below:
Note: The actual version name of the Proton build will not change.
While the additions, changes and improvements may be different to the final Proton 5.0-7 release here's what the current highlights are:
-Street Fighter 5 is now playable.
-Update DXVK to v1.6.1.
-Update wine-mono to 5.0.0. Among other things, this fixes Fight'N Rage and Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries.
-Improve dsound performance, which especially helps Zusi 3 Aerosoft and TrackMania Nations Forever.
-Fix crashes in Halo: Spartan Strike, TOXIKK, Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, and Plebby Quest: The Crusades.
-Fix connecting to Gearbox SHiFT in Borderlands 3.
-Grand Theft Auto 4 is now playable.
-Updates to vkd3d to improve Direct3D 12 compatibility and performance in The Division, The Talos Principle, and Monster Hunter World.
-Improve developer debugging experience.
You can find the original announcement here along with expanded details and any follow-up comments.
If you missed it, we also recently went over some interesting Steam milestones for Linux. Worth a read if you want to see how things are doing overall. The progress on Proton has been quite incredible.
Street Fighter V, one of the newly playable Proton titles, is actually on a big sale on Steam right now. It's 60% off until May 7, with the price being the cheapest it's been on Steam yet at £6.39 / $7.99 / €7.99.
Interestingly, Street Fighter V was originally supposed to be supported on Linux, as it was announced by Capcom back in 2016. Good to see it finally happen in some form thanks to this. You can see some quick footage of ours below - showing it working well online:
Direct Link
Downloading Street Figher V now.
UPDATE: actually both of them work find indeed.
What is even more, it seems Heroes of Might and Magic VI runs as well now better. Earlier it stucked at uplay, I can get to the main manu now, but it crashed after a short while
Last edited by fenevadkan on 2 May 2020 at 6:04 pm UTC
I followed the tutorial
I haven't tried to play online yet.
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (64 bits)
KERNEL: 4.19.0-8-amd64
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHzGPU:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBGPU
DRIVER: NVIDIA 418.74RAM: 16 GB
Last edited by LungDrago on 29 April 2020 at 8:54 am UTC
I followed the tutorial,
and game is not playable on my machine..
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
KERNEL: 5.6.7
CPU: i7-8700K
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
DRIVER: NVIDIA 440.82
RAM: 16 GB
Quoting: DesumActivated the beta, but it's still only showing 5.0-6 for me.
start a game with dxvk hud and youll see DXVK 1.6.1
before it was 1.5.5
why did it take 1,5year to fix it?
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