GE-Proton 9-27 brings fixes for Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games, Wuthering Waves and Monster Hunter Wilds

The community maintained compatibility layer for Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck, GE-Proton version 9-27 is out now with numerous fixes. If you're confused on all the different Proton versions see our guide. Also see our guide to installing GE-Proton.

With this release there's a bunch of new change and additions to Protonfixes, their database of game-specific fixes that get applied to make gaming smoother including:

• Fixes added for standalone and egs versions of [Wuthering Waves] (thanks cybik).
• Ubisoft connect fixes added for ghostrecon wildlands and rainbow six siege.
• Fix added for mojika - truth rears its ugly head (thanks superboo07).
• Added epic games registry entry fix for all epic games (thanks commandmc).
• Add fix for pkhex (thanks BlueInterlude).
• Add save imports fix for monster hunter wilds (thanks froz3n).
• Fix: handle issue when empty STORE value provided to umu.
• Fix added for Elin (thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing).
• Fix added for PowerWash Adventure (thanks sonik2kk).
• Fix added to shorten time taken for retrieving game_title in umu.

The original changelog noted "withering wayves", we've corrected it to Wuthering Waves. Additionally, while there's a fix noted for Rainbow Six Siege, it's not playable on Linux platforms due to the anti-cheat situation.

Pictured - Wuthering Waves

The rest is the usual assortment of pulling in upgrades and new code from official upstream projects:

Proton:

• Updated wine to bleeding edge.
• Updated dxvk to latest git.
• Updated vkd3d to latest git.
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to latest git.
• Imported build updates from upstream.
• Updated to latest steam runtime sdk.
• Import proton updates from upstream (includes fix for spellforce not launching).
• Revert gstreamer envvar change that interferes with the proper gstreamer backport we carry (needed to fix ghost wayland window in some games).

Patches:

• Remove now upstreamed microsoft flight sim 2024 patch.
• Remove now upstreamed gta v enhanced patch.

Source: GitHub