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Valve has released the second public Beta for Proton 9.0, what will become the next stable version of Proton for running Windows games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

It's quite a small update with just these changes for March 1st:

  • Enabled NVAPI for THE FINALS.
  • Fixed a few 9.0 regressions and the following games are playable again:
    • Tom Clancy's The Division
    • Warframe
    • Steep

That's on top of all the other changes from the first public Beta of Proton 9.0 from February 23rd, which as a refresher to save you clicking around are:

  • Now playable:
    • Dinogen Online
    • Photography Simulator Demo
  • Previously playable on Proton Experimental:
    • George McGeehan Gamer Hero
    • THE FINALS
    • True Reporter. Mystery of Mistwood
    • Road to Vostok Demo
    • WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT
    • Lord of the Rings: Gollum
  • Fixed Brawhalla showing a security certificate warning.
  • Started ignoring system mouse acceleration when using raw input API.
  • Fixed TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part I and II crashing during boss fights.
  • Fixed crash in Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories epilogue.
  • Improved video playback in BIOMUTANT.
  • Fixed Imperiums: Greek Wars launcher.
  • Fixed memory leaks that caused Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher crash over long time.
  • Fixed crash in Microsoft Flight Simulator when live weather is enabled.
  • Improved support for input devices with 8+ axes.
  • Fixed Savant - Ascent REMIX hitching during certain animations.
  • Fixed Super Robot Wars 30 crashing with languages other than English.
  • Fixed Doom Eternal audio crackling on certain setups.
  • Fixed Lethal Company, Phasmophobia and other Unity games crashing when a controller with a hat switch is plugged in.
  • Improved video playback for the following titles: Lords of the Fallen, Harvestella, and Wayfinder, Sea of Thieves, KING OF FIGHTERS XV.
  • Default scaling fixed for The Last Game on Steam Deck
  • Fixed audio issues when playing intro video in Airborne Kingdom.
  • Fixed Bayonetta crashing on certain systems.
  • Fixed Escape from Monkey Island getting minimized on a mouse click.
  • Fixed audio controls and spatialization in VRChat with AVPro.
  • Updated file distribution method to save disk space.
  • Rebased on top of upstream Wine 9.0.
  • Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.11.1-49-g32ff676b.
  • Updated dxvk to v2.3-47-ge2a46a34.
  • Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.6.4-48-g0951afb.

Additionally, Valve also did a tiny update to Proton Experimental today as well that simply fixed a Proton 9.0 regression to make Steep work again.

You can see the full changelog for more. If you want to keep up with Proton changes be sure to keep an eye on the Steam Play tag.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Looking forward to a patch for Witcher 3 (DX12). Can't access the glossary menu without crashing the game and SteamOS, since Proton 8.5. I must use Proton-8.17-GE.

It's happening on my Steam Deck and my all AMD PC running Holoiso or Bazzite. No problem when launched from desktop. It seems to be related to gamescope.


Last edited by Mohandevir on 1 March 2024 at 6:48 pm UTC
beko Mar 6
> Fixed Escape from Monkey Island getting minimized on a mouse click.

Some bugs I'm really in awe and wonder how and why this could ever happen. What is the game doing that this can result in such weird bugs o0
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