Valve stealthily put out a Release Candidate for testing the next stable update to Proton for Linux PCs and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-2. They actually put this up last week on May 24th.
Posted up on the official Proton GitHub, Proton 9.0-2 Release Candidate includes various changes previously in Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental. Valve are looking for feedback on any issues that happen that were not present in Proton 9.0-1.
Here's the current changes:
- Now playable:
- Alpha League
- Battlezone Gold Edition in VR mode
- Black Desert Online
- FreestyleFootball R
- Helldivers 2
- Hero's Land
- Iragon
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
- SimCity 3000 Unlimited
- Warlords Battlecry III
- Enabled controller support via Xalia in the launchers of:
- Clustertruck
- Fallout 3 (standard and GOTY edition) - partial support only
- Fallout 4
- Mugsters
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (72850)
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary
- Tomb Raider: Legend
- Limited number of cores seen by the following games making them playable on a high core count CPUs:
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- Command & Conquer and The Covert Operations
- Fixed Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon Forbidden West displaying a warning about outdated drivers with Nvidia GPUs.
- Fixed The Finals crashing on launch after a recent game update.
- Fixed The Finals wrongly detecting button mashing.
- Fixed The Finals not working on machines supporting AVX512 without
clearcpuid=304in the kernel command line.- Fixed Apex Legends not starting after a recent game update.
- Fixed Tekken 8 reporting wrong connection type if both WiFi and Ethernet are present.
- Fixed Ubisoft Launcher not starting games with a fresh Proton prefix.
- Fixed Halo Infinite crashing randomly during "initializing data".
- Fixed Beat Saber not being playable on Nvidia GPUs without using the legacy branch.
- Fixed Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite crashing when creating multiplayer lobby.
- Fixed hosting multiplayer games in Foundry.
- Fix rendering of Japanese characters in the launcher of Granado Espada Japan.
- Fixed Nightingale not being able to authenticate with Steam on desktop.
- Fixed Bloons Monkey City thinking it's offline with IPv6 support disabled.
- Fixed Ubisoft Launcher asking for serial number on the first launch of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
- Fixed Descent 3 not working in GL mode.
- Fixed Shatterline freezing on loading screen when trying to join a second online match in a session.
- Fixed Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition crashing when skipping intro videos.
- Fixed Imperiums: Greek Wars launcher.
- Fixed Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood failing to launch on a fresh prefix.
- Fixed audio stutter in Viking: Battle for Asgard.
- Fixed Swords of Legends Online launcher not being displayed correctly.
- Fixed Russian language rendering in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons launcher.
- Fixed scaling in The Desolate Hope when playing on desktop.
- Improved controller input support for Tower Princess.
- Improved performance in We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie.
- Fixed GRIS showing error window when exiting the game.
- Fixed issues with transparency in Akka Arrh.
- Fixed load / save dialogs not working in Idle Spiral on Steam Deck.
- Added raw HID support for VKB Gunfighter SCG.
- Fixed random crashes in Cosmoteer Starship Architect & Commander.
- Fixed font rendering in Cosmoteer Starship Architect & Commander on Steam Deck.
- Improved Chinese font rendering in Cosmoteer Starship Architect & Commander.
- Fixed Russian and Hebrew font rendering in Simon the Sorcerer: 25th Anniversary Edition.
- Improved font rendering in Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop on Steam Deck.
- Updated support for OpenXR to version 1.1.36.
- Updated OpenVR support to v2.2.3.
- Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.12-58-gf6d39052afb1.
- Updated dxvk to v2.3.1-64-g889802887fa5.
- Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.7.0-7-gaae4902b6ff7.
- Updated Wine Mono to version 9.1.0.
Pictured - Black Desert
Currently the post on GitHub has no replies, so I imagine most people missed the Release Candidate as well. So now you've got a weekend of testing ahead of you.
How to test?
Look for Proton 9.0 in your Steam Library, go into the Properties -> Betas and select release-candidate from the drop-down box.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Nice to see VR updates for Linux! Didn't expect that to become a (realistic) thing in 2024!
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hardpenguin Jun 2
Enabled controller support via Xalia in the launchers (..)Interesting project I have not heard of before: https://github.com/madewokherd/xalia
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