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GE-Proton 11-4 brings lots of controller improvements

| Last updated: 11 Aug 2026 at 11:56 am UTC [updated]
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Update 11:56 UTC - GE-Proton 11-5 was released after as a hotfix for Easy Anti-Cheat.

The community maintained compatibility layer GE-Proton 11-4 is out now, and with it there's a whole lot of fixes and improvements for controllers.

Make sure you take a look at the GamingOnLinux explainer on the different Proton versions and the GamingOnLinux guide to install GE-Proton to get started with it. For Steam you generally only need GE-Proton for very specific games as it's best to stick with Valve's official Proton for direct support, but GE-Proton is great for outside of Steam like with the Heroic Games Launcher.

Monster Hunter Wilds

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This is AKA the "Controller fixup" release.

First the non-controller related changes:

Wine And Graphics

  • Updated the Wine base and rebased the GE patch sets.
  • Updated DXVK, DXVK-NVAPI, VKD3D, and VKD3D-Proton.
  • Rebased OptiScaler/upscaler support.
  • Refreshed the Wine-Wayland/EM-11 patch set with fullscreen, focus, scaling, pointer, IME, colorspace, and deadlock fixes.
  • Stopped automatically showing DXVK shader compiler text unless explicitly requested through DXVK_HUD.

Video And Audio

  • Fixed a race in Media Foundation source-reader cleanup that could break Street Fighter 6 cutscenes unless debug logging was
    enabled.
  • Rebased the GE FFmpeg/WineDMO video playback patches onto the updated Wine base.
  • Added socket validation needed to avoid the Killing Floor 3 video-related crash.
  • Continued the long-running WinePulse timing recovery work for audio streams.
  • Packaged the PipeWire ALSA plugin for both x86_64 and aarch64 as it's useful for some games and the DS5 haptics audio device enumeration

Controller Support

  • Finalized DualShock 4, DualSense, and DualSense Edge haptics, controller-speaker audio, and hotplug handling.
  • Fixed controller audio and endpoint handling when switching between Sony controller models.
  • Added support for Sony controller functionality in non-Sony titles such as Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Mirage, Valhalla, and
    Black Flag Resynced.
  • Added DualSense-to-DualShock 4 spoofing.
  • Added Sony HID-to-XInput conversion, including conventional two-motor rumble translation.
  • Added an ISteamInput006 compatibility fallback for games that require Steam Input.
  • Fixed Black Desert controller detection and startup crashes.
  • Added Monster Hunter Wilds controller and USB audio handling.

Game Fixes

  • Fixed the Star Citizen unsupported-OS message-box crash and its condition check.
  • Disabled executable ASLR for Assassin’s Creed Revelations to handle its dynamic executable relocation behavior.
  • Improved the Monster Hunter Wilds save import fix so missing Steam userdata paths no longer cause Protonfixes errors.
  • Added or updated fixes for Dungeon Town, Heroes Chronicles, ESO, Heroes of Newerth Reborn, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2, and
    several other titles.
  • Made the ICU forwarder stubs prefer native DLLs to fix a launcher crash in Cyberpunk 2077
  • Removed old game-drive exceptions and added stricter Steam library path validation.
  • Added numeric UMU_ID fallback, so umu-123456 can supply app ID 123456 when SteamGameId is unavailable.

ARM64

  • Backported LLVM-mingw ARM64X support.
  • Updated the ARM64 Steam Runtime SDK.
  • Enabled ARM64X DXVK and VKD3D-Proton modules.
  • Fixed Meson linker flag propagation for cross-compiled projects.

Next, a deeper explanation of the new controller options:

These are mainly introduced for usage outside of steam, although they can also be useful within steam when steam-input isn't working as well as it could or when wine-wayland is being used and subsequently steam controller profile switching can't be used due to the overlay not working in wine-wayland.

First, disable Steam Input:

  1. Open the game’s Steam Properties.
  2. Select Controller.
  3. Set the per-game override to Disable Steam Input.

NOTE: When running outside Steam, Steam Input is already absent.

OPTION 1: DS4 Spoof

PROTON_SONY_DUALSENSE_AS_DUALSHOCK4=1 %command%

Function: Wine presents the DualSense or Edge as a real DS4, including the DS4 device identity and report layout. This normally
preserves the game’s native PlayStation mappings and DS4 icons. This is useful for games that have full DS4 support but are missing DS5/DS5 Edge support.

Example use cases:

  • Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
  • Assassin’s Creed Origins
  • Assassin’s Creed III Remastered, including Liberation Remastered

OPTION 2: XInput Convert

PROTON_SONY_HIDRAW_XINPUT=1 %command%

Function: Wine converts DS4, DualSense, or DualSense Edge input into a correctly mapped XInput controller. Conventional XInput rumble is translated back to the Sony controller. This does not alter the game’s artwork, so the game may continue displaying Xbox or otherwise incorrect icons. This is for games whose Sony controller handling produces incorrect mappings, commonly because their controller profiles or icon support are incomplete. Typical incorrect game behavior will detect the controller, but show Xbox icons due to PS icons not being implemented in the game, and mappings also being incorrect.

Examples:

  • Assassin’s Creed II
  • Assassin’s Creed Revelations
  • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
  • Black Desert Online

OPTION 3: Steam Input Fallback

PROTON_SONY_HIDRAW_XINPUT=1 \ PROTON_STEAMINPUT_XINPUT_FALLBACK=1 \ %command%

Function: Provides a compatible fake Steam Input device and forwards XInput controllers and mappings to it. For Sony
controllers, it works with XInput Convert: the Sony input is first mapped correctly to XInput, then exposed through the fake
Steam Input device. For non PS controllers that already register themselves as XInput devices, it just forwards the device as the Steam input device. This is For games with a hard dependency on Steam Input that need to run without the Steam client or with steam input disabled. It is also useful under Wine-Wayland when Steam Input profile switching cannot operate because the Steam overlay is unavailable or broken.

Example:

  • Monster Hunter Wilds

These modes are automatically enabled for the currently known affected Steam app IDs, but the environment variables remain
available for testing and newly discovered games.

None of these options should be needed for games that have proper, full DS4 + DS5 + DS5 Edge support.

PROTON_SONY_HIDRAW_XINPUT=1 Should be most useful for older games that either only have partial PS controller support without proper icons, or no PS controller support at all.

PROTON_STEAMINPUT_XINPUT_FALLBACK=1 Should rarely need to be used. As far as I know the only use case I've found is Monster Hunter Wilds, which is a steam-only PC game anyway, so steam input should work correctly there to begin with. In case it doesn't this will work with steam input disabled on the game (for example if you want to use wine-wayland -and- have full controller support).

Did this fix something for you? Do you use GE-Proton? Let us know in the comments!

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seflasporin 11 Aug 2026
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There's a hotfix (11-5) to fix EAC.
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