After a rather short testing period with the release candidates only being announced a few days ago, Valve has now pushed out the official release of Steam Play Proton 5.13-6.
If you're not clear on what Proton and Steam Play are, be sure to check out our constantly updated dedicated page. It's a special compatibility layer for running Windows games and apps from Steam on Linux.
What's new and improved in Proton 5.13-6? Here's the improvements and fixes to be found:
- Previously in Experimental: Fixed Cyberpunk 2077 world sound issues
- Previously in Experimental: Improved controller support and hotplugging in Yakuza Like a Dragon, Subnautica, DOOM (2016), and Virginia
- Nioh 2 is now playable
- Fixed black screen on focus loss in DOOM Eternal on AMD
- Restored VR support in No Man's Sky
- Voice chat in Deep Rock Galactic is now functional
- Better support for PlayStation 5 controllers
- Sound in Dark Sector is working now
- Fixed Need for Speed (2015) hang on AMD
- More fixes for game input being active while the Steam overlay is up
The full Proton changelog can be viewed here as normal.
How to update? Simply ensure you have Proton 5.13 installed on Steam, it will update as other apps and games do normally through Steam directly.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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11 comments
STiAT 13 Feb 2021
I loved most the release of the Steam client on Feb 05.
Fixed a bug on Linux where compatibility tool selection wasn’t displaying correctlyThat bug annoyed me a lot.
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Julius 13 Feb 2021
Anyone knows if this also fixes the multiplayer issues recently introduced by the 64bit port of Company of Heroes 2?
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gojul 13 Feb 2021
I still got frequent crashes on Death Stranding w/ Proton 5.13-5 and NVidia driver 460.39 under Debian stable. Anyone with the same issues ? (and yes re-validating files quite often does not fix it)
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rustybroomhandle 13 Feb 2021
Quoting: gojulI still got frequent crashes on Death Stranding w/ Proton 5.13-5 and NVidia driver 460.39 under Debian stable. Anyone with the same issues ? (and yes re-validating files quite often does not fix it)I'm on Proton Experimental with that but will switch over and play a bit later today to see if it crashes. I'm on Manjaro / NVidia and I've actually never had that game crash on me. I'm even running ReShade on top of it.
I have found some games are crashy in certain screen modes. Like some will hate Fullscreen.
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14 13 Feb 2021
The Cyberpunk 2077 fix affects me and I'm really happy to see that released!
I'm also very happily surprised that they fixed in-game voice chat in Deep Rock! I had settled with the idea that that would never happen. This will greatly improve playing with randos.
I'm also very happily surprised that they fixed in-game voice chat in Deep Rock! I had settled with the idea that that would never happen. This will greatly improve playing with randos.
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Phlebiac 13 Feb 2021
A few games I've tried it on (that worked before) exit immediately after starting; anyone else seeing that?
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tpau 14 Feb 2021
I hope that these fixes come to wine and wine staging too.
Using the base of proton shouldn't be a punishment for too long.
Using the base of proton shouldn't be a punishment for too long.
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Gerarderloper 14 Feb 2021
If they can figure out why performance drops/tanks in areas for AMD RNDA2 (maybe other amd cards) then I'll be over the moon.
KCD and GTA5 were good test cases when directly comparing 4k fps drops below 60fps with that of windows performance, making it obvious there is a issue.
KCD and GTA5 were good test cases when directly comparing 4k fps drops below 60fps with that of windows performance, making it obvious there is a issue.
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kerberizer 14 Feb 2021
Quoting: PhlebiacA few games I've tried it on (that worked before) exit immediately after starting; anyone else seeing that?I noticed similar behaviour on Arch after upgrading FAudio from 21.01 to 21.02. More precisely, I noticed that after the regular package upgrade no game in Steam would run. Going through the list of upgraded packages, I thought FAudio seemed the most likely to had caused the problem, so I downgraded it, and everything started working again.
Take this with a pinch of salt, though. I didn't have the time to investigate further, so maybe that was just a coincidence (I still haven't also verified if re-upgrading FAudio would lead to the same problem).
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Phlebiac 15 Feb 2021
Quoting: kerberizerHmm... interesting. I do see the libFAudio package did update to 21.02 near the same time. Something I can check into further, thanks.Quoting: PhlebiacA few games I've tried it on (that worked before) exit immediately after starting; anyone else seeing that?I noticed similar behaviour on Arch after upgrading FAudio from 21.01 to 21.02. More precisely, I noticed that after the regular package upgrade no game in Steam would run.
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Liam Squires-Hand 15 Feb 2021
Quoting: Gueststuff and thingsAnd I'll say for the record again, if everything about Linux gaming ends up relying entirely on Proton and we never see any other kind of "support", then this as a website becomes pointless and I'll just up and quit.
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