Proton 10.0-2 (beta) brings even more gaming improvements to Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck

Valve have released the second major Beta for Proton 10, as we get closer to the stable release for gaming on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.

This brings the Release Candidate build previously reported on by GamingOnLinux to a wider audience, with no extra opt-in needed. Just download Proton 10 from your Steam Library directly and then you can individually swap games to it for some testing.

Here's all that's in the Proton 10.0-2 Beta:

• Now playable: Stardust Skate, STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE, Champions of Anteria, IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover, Click&Fight, Tunnet, WRC Generations, Post Mortem.
• Fixed Proton 10 regressions:
  • Warframe launcher should no longer have issues displaying titlebar elements.
  • Enshrouded no longer crashes when refreshing server list.
  • VRChat video playback issue that affected some instances is fixed.
  • The Sims 2 Legacy Collection is playable again.
  • Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land is playable again.
  • Forza Horizon 4 and 5 no longer require focus change to not have black screen.
  • Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD setting launcher renders correctly again.
  • OpenVR is working with 32 bit games again.
  • Digseum is playable again.
  • The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden, VRChat, VIDEO GAME and more should behave better with regards to window focus.
• Fixed The First Berserker: Khazan wrongly displaying a warning about the drive the game is installed on.
• Fixed The First Berserker: Khazan showing a warning about outdated OS/GPU drivers version.
• Fixed scaling in Imperiums: Greek Wars in fullscreen mode.
• Fixed games not starting when upgrading from a removed Proton installation.
• Fixed The Finals showing EOS EAC updater window twice on start.
• Fixed boss intro videos playback in River City Girls.
• Fixed Black Desert launcher rendering all black on Nvidia + Wayland setups.
• Mitigated OpenSSL-related issues with many games including Claybook, Gravel, SMITE that happen on newer Intel CPUs.
• Enabled nvapi for The Last Of Us 2.
• Improved rendering of Alpha Protocol's launcher.
• Improved situation with Once Human having bad stutter on certain setups.
• Fixed Risk of Rain 2 and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered not working on certains setups.
• Fixed Monster Jam Showdown not being able to link Epic Games account.
• Fixed Astroneer not being able to connect to an encrypted dedicated server.
• Fixed transfer account option in The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden.
• Fixed DLSS frame generation options being disabled in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
• Fixed radio not playing music in Fallout 3: GOTY.
• 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 in-game screen capture in The Sims 2 Legacy Collection.
• Fixed querying graphics settings in Marvel Rivals.
• Fixed Tiny Troopers Global Ops, Zombie Derby: Pixel Survival and possibly more having focus issues when using Steam Overlay on Steam Deck.
• Fixed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition having wrong scaling with high DPI.
• Fixed Tower Unite crashing in VR mode.
• Fixed built-in web browser in Banter.
• Fixed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt having issue with Nvidia HairWorks - hair should no longer disappear.
• Fixed Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered showing green line at the bottom of video in the main menu.
• Fixed beginning of the Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier being a black screen.
• Fixed the new Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher not working.
• Fixed Xalia not being able to fully progress through prerequisite installation in MultiVersus using only the controller.
• Fixed a crash late in game in Crysis 2 Remastered.
• Fixed Defiance failing to connect to the game.
• Fixed touch input not working correctly in menus of No Man's Sky.
• Fixed controller support in MySims Kingdom.
• Fixed Space Engineers not registering trigger input with controllers.
• Fixed Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced showing driver version warning with AMD GPUs.
• Fixed screen darkening in e-Racer.
• Fixed some games using DirectStorage not working with Intel GPUs.
• Improved force feedback support in Assetto Corsa EVO.
• Fixed Dead Island 2 not detecting Epic Online Services and not allowing cross-play.
• Fixed controller detection issues with devices that do not have axes, only buttons.
• Fixed DOOM (2016) having issues with window decorations on certain setups.
• Fixed VRChat not being able to Alt+F4 out of game after playing some videos using Unity Player.
• Fixed VRChat crashing on some setups when h264 playback is attempted.
• Fixed Dune: Awakening DLSS support.
• Disabled interacting via Xalia with the input rebinding section in Unity3D game launchers to prevent it from wrongly recognizing controller inputs used for navigation as the desired binding.
• Enabled Xalia by default instead of only for selected titles. It should work with most launchers using builtin Win32 controls.
• Disabled Xalia for Rockstar Launcher - aftar a recent update it got native contoller support which resulted in registering events twice.
• Updated Wine-Mono to 10.0.0.
• Updated Xalia to 0.4.6.
• Updated vkd3d to vkd3d-1.16-194-g7c0da1747a89
• Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.14.1-286-g2b766f7639cf
• Updated dxvk to v2.6.2-5-g6873b37c6f90
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.9.0-8-g5fa4b3c7cddc

Source: GitHub

Pictured - Warframe

And again, this is on top of the initial Proton 10 Beta that contained:

• Now playable (previously worked with Proton Experimental):
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
  • Black Ink
  • Factorio
  • Ignited Entry
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
  • MySims Kingdom
  • No Man's Sky in VR mode (regressed after a game update)
  • Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
  • Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
  • Soul Interface
  • THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII GLOBAL MATCH
  • VIDEO GAME (924310)
  • Willful
  • X Rebirth VR Edition
• Fixed / improved video playback in:
  • Agony Unrated
  • All-Star Fruit Racing
  • Audiosurf
  • Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
  • Gal*Gun 2
  • Greedfall
  • Indigo Park: Chapter 1
  • Omensight
  • SOULCALIBUR VI
  • TELEFORUM
  • Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh
  • Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
• Reinstated hack from Proton 7 that helped with SpellForce: Platinum Edition, NieR: Automata, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and DARK SOULS III crashing with monitors exposing too many possible resolutions.
• Improved performance in Dirt Rally 2.0.
• Fixed Final Fantasy XVI demo displaying driver warning on launch.
• Fixed Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced launcher hang and the game crashing on launch as well as not being possible to uninstall it via Steam.
• Fixed XCOM 2 erroring out when trying to connect to my2K.
• Fixed network issues in Hunt: Showdown 1896 after a game update.
• Fixed Rivals of Aether II, Stalker 2, The Axis Unseen, Beyond Handwell, Marvel Rivals, The Finals, Creatures of Ava crashing with Intel GPUs.
• Added support for game mods that load via custom dinput8.dll.
• Fixed input not working with Studio System : Guardian Angel.
• Fixed cursor not working in the menu of Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy (1999).
• Fixed Deviator crashing with AMD GPUs shortly after launching.
• Fixed Warhammer: Vermintide 2 showing prerequisite installer on every launch.
• Re-enabled nvapi for Neverwinter, Star Trek Online and Champions Online.
• Fixed full screen mode in The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis.
• Improved situation with audio crackling in Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Steam Deck.
• Improved reliability of Proton Prefix creation.
• Fixed Supermarket Together not detecting DLC on some systems.
• Fixed extras video playback in Shadow Warrior 2.
• Fixed VR mode in Evochron Legacy SE.
• Fixed non-Steam Battle.net installations.
• Fixed Sea of Thieves Xbox login window not working.
• Fixed graphics scaling in Master Magistrate.
• Fixed interface elements in Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two showing as solid green color.
• Included initial work on speech synthesis - requires manual installation of Proton Voice Files (steam://install/3086180), confirmed to work with The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
• Fixed video playback in Twisted Sails.
• Improved video playback in Max: The Curse of Brotherhood.
• Added hack to allow Steam Overlay to function with EAC EOS games.
• Fixed CPU topology override issues on machines with more than 32 logical cores.
• Fixed Proton sometimes creating an empty window when running via XWayland.
• Fixed Marvel Rivals displaying OS/drivers out of date warning.
• Fixed desync issue with 60FPS AVPro videos in VRChat.
• Fixed intermittent freezing in Spirit Hunter: NG.
• Fixed The Finals crashing after a recent game update.
• Improved Ubisoft Connect behavior when switching between Proton versions.
• Improved video playback in Locoland on NVIDIA GPUs.
• Improved video playback in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
• Fixed Tiny Cauldron freezing when selecting some resolutions.
• Fixed various crashes affecting Final Fantasy XIV launcher.
• Fixed broken account creation in Final Fantasy XIV.
• Fixed Nioh: Complete Edition hanging on a black screen when skipping videos.
• Fixed Killsquad freezing on character selection screen.
• Fixed Dread X Collection 3 Bete Grise minigame.
• Fixed video playback in ATRI - My Dear Moments-.
• Fixed Dark and Darker not being playable after a game update.
• Updated libvkd3d-shader to vkd3d-1.15-179-g21e08955d3c3.
• Updated dxvk to v2.6.1.
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.9.0.
• Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.14.1-153-ga7159b80e165.
• Updated wine-mono to 9.4.0.
• Updated Xalia to 0.4.5 and enabled it for The TakeOver, Floppy Heroes, Whiskered Away, Himno, Survirus, The Adventure of Ninomae Ina'nis.
• Rebased Wine on top of wine-10.0.
• Added Steamworks SDK 1.62 support.