Proton 9.0-3 released and Proton Experimental upgraded for Linux / Steam Deck

Valve released two fresh Proton upgrades to bring more compatibility with Windows games to Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-3 now available and Proton Experimental upgraded. Check out my beginner's guide if you're confused on Proton.

First up Proton 9.0-3 is now the latest stable version of Proton, the one you should generally use for most things unless games are otherwise set by Valve to a different version.

Here's all the changes for Proton 9.0-3:

• Now playable:
  • Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (desktop only)
  • Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!
  • Banyu Lintar Angin
  • Dinner with an Owl,
  • Farlight 84
  • Flatout 3
  • KinitoPET
  • Owl Observatory Demo
  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
  • Super
  • Sword of Convallaria
  • Syberia
  • THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION
  • To Pixelia Demo
  • Unity of Command II
  • Zaccaria Pinball
• Fixed 9.0 regressions:
  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare's DLC is playable again.
  • Bionic Commando is playable again.
  • Controllers work again in Sonic Forces.
  • GRID Autosport and GRID 2 are playable again.
  • Noita mods no longer fail to update.
  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide no longer freezes randomly when processing shaders for the cache.
• Improved language support for Guild Wars 2.
• Enable controller support in the launchers of Fallout 3 (standard and GOTY edition) via Xalia.
• Fixed cutscene playback in Iragon games.
• Fixed Yakuza Kiwami not working on certain setups.
• Added support for D3D12 in OpenXR.
• Fixed AVPro playback in VRChat.
• Fixed video quality of live streamed episodes in Quantum Break.
• Fixed artifacts in Yakuza 4 Remastered opening video.
• Improved support for workshop levels in Zeepkist.
• Improved loading time of Arcanum.
• Fixed Aimlabs having broken News section.
• Fixed RAID: World War II randomly hanging on start.
• Fixed Strip Fighter ZERO not starting on some setups.
• Fixed Undecember not being playable after a recent game update.
• Fixed missing cursor in IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition.
• Fixed a crash in Starfield: Creation Kit.
• Fixed text not being displayed during the installation of EA Desktop launcher.
• Fixed "Customize Setup" not working during EA Launcher installation.
• Fixed Halo Infinite rendering using a weird resolution on a Steam Deck.
• Improved microphone support in Squad.
• Fixed License Agreement not displaying correctly in Romance of the Three Kingdoms [JP].
• Fixed FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE displaying white screen on launch on Steam Deck OLED.
• Fixed microphone not working with Helldivers 2 after a recent game update.
• Fixed freezes in Dinogen Online.
• Fixed Dinogen Online crashing randomly on start.
• Fixed SCP Secret Laboratory crashing after a recent game update.
• Fixed Burnout Paradise Remastered crashing when an input video device is plugged in.
• Improved memory usage of Burnout Paradise Remastered and lowered the chances of crashing.
• Fixed font rendering in Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.
• Fixed Once Human crashing when trying to join a server or opening the EULA on fresh Proton prefixes.
• Fixed Ubisoft Connect requiring a manual log in with a new prefix with Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (some other games may still suffer from that similarly as on Windows with a clean Ubisoft Connect install).
• Fixed The Finals not being playable after a recent game update.
• Fixed video playback in Spirit Hunter: NG.
• Improved memory usage when playing videos in 32bit games.
• Fixed font rendering in Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure.
• Fixed Steam Deck users being forced to use MTL145 nickname in Project Kunai.
• Fixed connecting with Unreal Insights to games running under Proton.
• Added a warning that appears in Proton Log for systems that have low file descriptor limit (e.g. non-systemd distributions).
• Fixed video playback in One Finger Death Punch.
• Fixed Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit crashing when reaching first boss.
• Updated Wine Mono to 9.2.0.
• Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.13-64-g47840a4bb614.
• Updated dxvk to v2.4-40-gd0ea5a4a87c9.
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.7.1-19-gbd542144518d.

Additionally, Proton Experimental, the testing-ground for future stable Proton updates that changes often (and can come with more breakage) was also updated. It has all new stuff from Proton 9.0-3 plus these extra changes:

Now Playable:

• Total War: SHOGUN 2
• Welcome to Dustown
• Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 (requires disabled Steam Overlay)
• Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 (AMD GPUs only).

Other fixes and improvements:

• Fixed multiplayer in SpellForce 3: Versus Edition.
• Fixed font rendering in SpellForce 3: Versus Edition.
• Fixed mod support in DOOM Eternal.
• Fixed Yakuza 6 crash when playing Puyo Puyo mini-game.
• Improved video playback in March of Empires and Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition.
• Updated Wine Mono to 9.3.0.

All can be found in the changelog.

What's your favourite improvement in Proton lately? Are you waiting for something to be solved?