Proton Experimental updated for The Finals, Red Alert 2, deals with high core count CPUs

Valve has released a new Proton Experimental update that pulls in some nice fixes for Linux Desktop and Steam Deck gamers, and this update should improve quite a few games!

For the update released March 29th, they've noted these playable as of this release:

• Aisling and the Tavern of Elves
• Snares of Ruin 2
• Iragon

Plus the rest of the improvements:

• Fixed The Finals not working on machines supporting AVX512 without clearcpuid=304 in the kernel command line.
• Fixed garbled videos in The Finals.
• Enabled NVAPI for Horizon Forbidden West.
• Fixed Mars First Logistics not being able to upload to Steam Workshop.
• Fixed Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 crashing intermittently when switching between menu options.
• Fixed Joe Danger and Joe Danger 2: The Movie crashing on AMD GPUs.
• Limited number of cores seen by the following games making them playable on a high core count CPUs:
  • Far Cry 2
  • Far Cry 4
  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
  • Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
  • Outcast - Second Contact
  • Prototype
• Fixed a few Proton 9.0 regressions:
  • Sea of Thieves is able to play videos on Steam Deck.
  • Borderlands GOTY Enhanced is playable again.

Pictured - Far Cry 4

Full changelog available on GitHub.