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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.

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?

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