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Recently there's been some issues with the Battle.net launcher updates breaking again, and a fix for it is available in Wine, which this GE-Proton release has pulled in along with other fixes.
Here's all that's changed in GE-Proton 9-23:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.Upstream:
- update wine to bleeding-edge (fixes battle.net broken updates)
- update dxvk to latest git
- update vkd3d-proton to latest git
- update dxvk-nvapi to latest git
- update vkd3d to latest git
- import upstream proton game fixes
Patches:
- proton: preserve drive letter for different mount points #129 (thanks loathingKernel)
- wine: add fix for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes (thanks loisgomez) -- triggered with SteamGameId=218210
Protonfixes:
- Add Project Torque
- Add fix for Middle-earth: Shadow of War (GOG) (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/pull/209[)](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/61cf7698df8ffee04746c1cd20487f58228ad4da)
- Add launcher skip for X-Blades (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/pull/206[)](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/3d7215c95093f4910c77174d80cfdd9224c07813)
Add directplay for Total Annihilation (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/pull/196[)](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/2abbeb508355d1739f9b83bf7178609e8ade1885)- Add fix for Sifu (EGS) (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/pull/195[)](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/d8933250dabc07b5457ed4de9b222a07e7611a3f)
- Add fix for [REDACTED] (EGS) (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/pull/194[)](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/48fcb33edd2910572e990dc6c75b52b7a8c1f0ce)
- Add fix for Super Meat Boy(EGS) (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/pull/193[)](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/fa14101a449b10ca076989dfa16307433ce5a4d1)
- Add fix for BioShock Remastered and BioShock 2 Remastered (EGS) (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/pull/192[)](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/9982ec315339059634ba3f6283a7ba4d4bd8a71f)
- Add DirectPlay to SpellForce 1 and 2 titles for Multiplayer (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/pull/190[)](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/4eef22e273008d65111c22db849dcd9b74414b7e)
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legluondunet 3 days ago
This version seems to resolve Battle.Net install and games update, but:
- can not access Warcraft III reforged, I stay at the lion doors which never open
Last edited by legluondunet on 20 Jan 2025 at 9:07 am UTC
- can not access Warcraft III reforged, I stay at the lion doors which never open
Last edited by legluondunet on 20 Jan 2025 at 9:07 am UTC
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I feel like WC3 Reforged has been broken for over a year at this point. I remember last year trying to play it again since I really like Castle Fight custom map, and I too couldn't get past the lion doors. And prior to that I remember the game randomly freezing. Really sucks because for a few years there, WC3 Reforged just worked.
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I wonder what the [redacted] EGS game is... oh, that's the literal name of the game 
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/redacted-d9d21e
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/redacted-d9d21e
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Is there a commit and a link to the bug for this "Bnet update problem"?
Is it the "writecopy" hack in proton to handle some problem with chromium embedded framework or was it something else?
Last edited by tpau on 19 Jan 2025 at 6:37 am UTC
Is it the "writecopy" hack in proton to handle some problem with chromium embedded framework or was it something else?
Last edited by tpau on 19 Jan 2025 at 6:37 am UTC
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I've had a battle.net install/update problem just yesterday. Fixed it by switching from flatpak to native packages, and also installing wine + as many optional wine dependencies as possible except the ones that clearly make no sense like printing libraries.
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ElamanOpiskelija a day ago
Oh man... good work, but BNet doesn't deserve Eggy.
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Oh man... good work, but BNet doesn't deserve Eggy.@ElamanOpiskelija
You may not think it deserves it but many people use it and that's more than enough to get Eggy support.
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Thanks for posting stuff like this, as I just ran into a Battle.net update problem today, and I remembered seeing this article. The GE Proton 9-23 version fixed it! (I was previously using the Lutris default.)
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TheRiddick 8 hours ago
I'll come back to linux with kernel 6.14 (ntsync) and NV drivers v570. Lets hope that isn't too long.
I've been playing a fair bit of stalker-2 and noticed I was getting as much as 40fps less under Linux and it was quite noticeable. Probably compounded by Frame-Gen, still, ntsync and the new drivers should help a fair bit, I hope.
I've been playing a fair bit of stalker-2 and noticed I was getting as much as 40fps less under Linux and it was quite noticeable. Probably compounded by Frame-Gen, still, ntsync and the new drivers should help a fair bit, I hope.
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> ntsync and the new drivers should help a fair bit
Dunno what Nvidia has planned for v570, but I wouldn't expect any major performance improvements? As for ntsync, that is more for robustness / correctness, it's not expected to be much faster than what Proton already does. It will improve vanilla WINE, which is what the touted benchmarks show...
Dunno what Nvidia has planned for v570, but I wouldn't expect any major performance improvements? As for ntsync, that is more for robustness / correctness, it's not expected to be much faster than what Proton already does. It will improve vanilla WINE, which is what the touted benchmarks show...
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I've been playing a fair bit of stalker-2 and noticed I was getting as much as 40fps less under Linux and it was quite noticeable. Probably compounded by Frame-Gen, still, ntsync and the new drivers should help a fair bit, I hope
Strange. I get better perf on Linux in STALKER 2, specially on CPU bottlenecked bigger camps. Other places seem about same in terms of performance.
Played 100 hours, finished the game with zero issues.
5800X3D, RTX 3080, 565.77 drivers
Arch Linux, MATE desktop,X11
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