Valve has finished the current Proton Next testing, with Proton 7.0-5 now available as an update in your Steam Library replacing the previous Proton 7 version. Here's a run over what's new.
Newly playable games include:
- Rift
- Unravel 2
- Airborne Kingdom
- Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull
- Re-Volt (but you should try it with Luxtorpeda)
- Aspire: Ina's Tale
- Battle Realms: Zen Edition
- Deathsmiles II
- Primal Carnage: Extinction
- Pico Park Classic Edition
- Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
- Darkstar One
- Indiana Jones and the Emperor Tomb
- Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
Other fixes include:
- Fix Batman: Arkham City GOTY launching in the background on Steam Deck when set to fullscreen.
- Fix Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered displaying dialog about outdated drivers on AMD systems.
- Fix Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) having no audio.
- Fix Return to Monkey Island not reacting to mouse clicks after a recent game update.
- Fix upsidedown videos in VRChat and many other games.
- Fix Call of Duty Black Ops II Zombies and Multiplayer hanging on exit.
- Fix Bail or Jail crashing when opening the Terms of Serivce.
- Improve GTA V situation with not loading textures.
- Fix Red Dead Redemption 2 crashing after a recent game update.
- Fix Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher functionality after game update.
- Fix cutscene stutter in Disgaea 5.
- Fix Thrustmaster HOTAS having non-functional dial in Elite Dangerous.
- Fix Planet Zoo randomly crashing.
- Fix SCP: Secret Labratory not being playable after a recent game update (again).
- Fix Tekken 7 crashing at launch.
- Fix Armello hanging on exit.
- Fix Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization freezing after the tutorial.
- Fix Space Engineers intro video not playing correctly.
- Fix Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen videos not playing correctly.
- Implement network video support for VRChat.
- Update dxvk to v1.10.3-28-ge3daa699.
The changelog as always can be found here. Need to know how to change the Proton version on Steam Deck? I have a guide for that on YouTube.
Here's a video going over the changes:
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Love it, and love your new profile pic Liam :). I'd just wish we had a better way to go around the damned anti-cheat :(
By the way, now that they released this version... I've read a bit about it, but what would be exactly the difference between Proton Experimental and Proton 7.0-5? Could someone elaborate a bit about it? What pros and cons for each version? Which one would you recommend?
By the way, now that they released this version... I've read a bit about it, but what would be exactly the difference between Proton Experimental and Proton 7.0-5? Could someone elaborate a bit about it? What pros and cons for each version? Which one would you recommend?
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By the way, now that they released this version... I've read a bit about it, but what would be exactly the difference between Proton Experimental and Proton 7.0-5? Could someone elaborate a bit about it? What pros and cons for each version? Which one would you recommend?If you follow [the link to the changelog](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog) in the article, there's an overview of the differences between Experimental and 7.0-5.
The biggest changes are probably that Experimental ships with much newer releases of dxvk and vkd3d-proton but have higher driver requirements.
Last edited by whizse on 7 Dec 2022 at 3:57 pm UTC
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Most of the games are playable now thanks to Valve but today I wanted to play catherine classic on Steamdeck but I was not able to - freezing and loading screen when starting a lvl :(
https://store.steampowered.com/app/893180/Catherine_Classic/
I have tried it on the PC as well and the same thing...
Now I have to find a way to make it work ....
Any ideas???
https://store.steampowered.com/app/893180/Catherine_Classic/
I have tried it on the PC as well and the same thing...
Now I have to find a way to make it work ....
Any ideas???
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Most of the games are playable now thanks to Valve but today I wanted to play catherine classic on Steamdeck but I was not able to - freezing and loading screen when starting a lvl :(Video issues. It seems to be broken both on [Proton](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2207) and with vanilla [Wine](https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51226).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/893180/Catherine_Classic/
I have tried it on the PC as well and the same thing...
Now I have to find a way to make it work ....
Any ideas???
There's a workaround [described here](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2207#issuecomment-1000459968). Falling back to an older Proton release and (I assume) using [mf-install](https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-install/) to add the needed mfplat dlls.
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Proton on my Deck hasn't updated to 7.0-5 yet, it downloaded 7.0-4 after opting out of the old RC beta.
I've checked the updates a few times, but it might take another day or clearing the download cache.
Not that it matters to me as I can switch to Next, but it would be needed for a game like AK to become Steam Deck Playable, which I know these devs are eager for.
edit: updated a day later
another edit: Apparently the AK devs had to "click a button" to confirm the Playable rating.
Which makes sense but also makes blaming devs for breaking compatibility (if it's on them) somewhat justified.
Last edited by RedWyvern on 9 Dec 2022 at 7:08 pm UTC
I've checked the updates a few times, but it might take another day or clearing the download cache.
Not that it matters to me as I can switch to Next, but it would be needed for a game like AK to become Steam Deck Playable, which I know these devs are eager for.
edit: updated a day later
another edit: Apparently the AK devs had to "click a button" to confirm the Playable rating.
Which makes sense but also makes blaming devs for breaking compatibility (if it's on them) somewhat justified.
Last edited by RedWyvern on 9 Dec 2022 at 7:08 pm UTC
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Tried Deathsmiles II with the new proton and the pre-boss videos are still not showing.
Maybe force compatibility is needed?
Maybe force compatibility is needed?
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