Only a few days after GE-Proton 9-12 was released, GE-Proton 9-13 is out now with a fix for World of Warcraft along with upstream code updates.
As your reminder: it's a community-build of Proton, nothing to do with the official Proton from Valve. You'll find GE adds specific fixes that Valve often can't (due to legal reasons) but GE comes with less testing and support. Usually you only want to use it for specific games until they work properly in Valve's Proton, or for using Proton outside of Steam like in Heroic and Lutris. See more about Proton in my guide.
From the GE-Proton 9-13 release notes:
Hotfix:
- Update vkd3d-proton to latest git to include World of Warcraft MSAA fix
proton:
- wine updated to latest bleeding edge
- dxvk updated to latest git
- proton upstream fixes added
Additional:
- protonfixes updated to latest git
Pictured - World of Warcraft artwork, credit: Blizzard
You can install GE-Proton with ProtonUp-Qt.
For those of you reading who regularly play WoW on Linux with Wine / Proton, how's the experience nowadays? It's been a very long time since I tried, but I remember even years before Proton is mostly ran quite well.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Comandante Ñoñardo Sep 5
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoMeanwhile LUTRIS is still with the version 8-26 shown as "stable"Lutris is switching to ULWGL for later wine versions. See this Lutris forum response on why 8-26 is (probably) the last wine version that Lutris supports directly.
That said, I'm baffled as to how this actually works. Lutris still has a "wine version management" tool, and doesn't list ULWGL there, so I'm not really sure how you're supposed to configure this. I use Heroic these days which seems to have a much cleaner interface for this stuff. And the GOG authentication actually loads, unlike Lutris, which just times out.
Last edited by scaine on 5 September 2024 at 3:58 pm UTC
silverhikari Sep 5
Quoting: scaineQuoting: Comandante ÑoñardoMeanwhile LUTRIS is still with the version 8-26 shown as "stable"Lutris is switching to ULWGL for later wine versions. See this Lutris forum response on why 8-26 is (probably) the last wine version that Lutris supports directly.
That said, I'm baffled as to how this actually works. Lutris still has a "wine version management" tool, and doesn't list ULWGL there, so I'm not really sure how you're supposed to configure this. I use Heroic these days which seems to have a much cleaner interface for this stuff. And the GOG authentication actually loads, unlike Lutris, which just times out.
to get umu to appear on lutris as it still is experimental, is trying adding 'env LUTRIS_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES_ENABLED=1' before lutris and look for 'PROTON-GE-LATEST' in the runner version selector though i do not know if it is in the current stable lutris release or you will have to get the git version
Also installed it on the Steam deck yesterday using the default Proton 9 version as a non-steam game. This too works just fine.
What was broken in GE-Proton?
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoMeanwhile LUTRIS is still with the version 8-26 shown as "stable"Yes, because that's the latest version of wine ge. This article is about proton ge. You're confusing the two.
As others have said, we should wait for umu proton, or use wine tkg.
Caldathras Sep 6
Quoting: KlaasI think it was too early to stop wine-ge in February. It does not look like umu will be ready in the near future (latest release is 0.1-RC4 released in April).This is exactly the point I wanted to make. Thanks, Klaas.
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