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Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental on October 7th, that pulled in some needed fixes for various Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck.

Listed as now playable with this release:

  • Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown

We have another update to the open source project Xalia included with version 0.4.4, this project provides a gamepad UI for traditional desktop applications (good for launchers). Valve have expanded this launcher support to also now include:

  • Trackmania United Forever
  • Trackmania Nations Forever
  • Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • WARRIORS ALL-STARS

Fixed Proton Experimental regressions (bugs that appeared in a previous Proton Experimental release):

  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider is playable again in DX12 mode.
  • Fixed Final Fantasy XVI having low FPS due to excessive DLL lookup.
  • Fixed Final Fantasy XVI not showing displays in settings.
  • Fixed Mary Skelter 2 stuttering on launch.
  • Fixed Unreal Engine Crash Report Client not launching properly.


Pictured - Final Fantasy XVI

Fixed Proton 9.0 regressions (bugs that appeared from Proton 9.0):

  • Fablecraft is playable again.

All the details in the changelog.

Proton Experimental is the testing-ground for future stable updates of Proton which is currently at Proton 9.0-3 that was released September 19th. This will show up as an update to Proton Experimental in your Steam Downloads. See more in my full Proton guide.

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_Mars Oct 8
QuoteListed as now playable with this release:

  • Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown

Pretty much have zero interest for this but it's always nice to have another anti-cheat supported on Linux.

QuoteFixed Unreal Engine Crash Report Client not launching properly.
Silly every time
grahfgames Oct 10
Excellent, I had been playing it on my rarely used Win11 partition due to its graphical glitches and terrible performance on Linux. It would hang randomly in cutscenes as well and just kind of soft lock. I would have to go into the console and kill the game and then I got access to Wayland again :) Will test it out today.
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