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Valve have released a fresh June 5th update for Proton Experimental, their testing-ground for running Windows games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck.

If you already have it downloaded it will shop up in your Steam Downloads as an update. Otherwise, you can search for Proton Experimental directly in your Steam Library. See my guide on all the different Proton versions for more info.

The June 5th update notes these as newly playable:

  • IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover
  • Click&Fight
  • Tunnet

The rest of the changes:

  • Fixed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt having issue with Nvidia HairWorks - hair should no longer disappear.
  • Fixed Tower Unite crashing in VR mode.
  • Fixed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition having wrong scaling with high DPI.
  • Fixed in-game screen capture in The Sims 2 Legacy Collection.
  • Fixed controller detection issues with devices that do not have axes, only buttons.
  • Fixed VRChat not being able to Alt+F4 out of game after playing some videos using Unity Player.
  • Fixed game lag spikes in Mary Skelter Finale, Death end re;Quest, Death end re;Quest 2, Megadimension Neptunia VIIR and Dragon Star Varnir.
  • Fixed radio not playing music in Fallout 3: GOTY.
  • Mitigated OpenSSL-related issues with many games including Claybook, Gravel, SMITE that happen on newer Intel CPUs.
  • Fixed Proton 10 regressions:
    • VRChat video playback issue that affected some instances is fixed.

Source: GitHub

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WMan22 23 hours ago
Wait, Tunnet wasn't considered playable? I remember playing the proton version of that game just fine a while back because the native linux port was giving me control issues.
edo 20 hours ago
berserk and the band of the hawk now works, it did not work previously
hardpenguin 11 hours ago
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Are the regression no more in Proton Experimental? No more games failing to start as opposed to Proton 9?
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