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Proton 5.0 for Steam Play released - it's a huge update (updated)

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CodeWeavers and Valve today released the big one many have been waiting for! Proton 5.0 for Steam Play is now live.

Looking to get started with Steam Play on Linux? Have no idea what it is? Be sure to check our previous beginners guide for some tips and explanations. We'll be keeping that up to date with any major changes.

This is a big jump too, with Proton moving from Wine 4.11 to Wine 5.0 bringing thousands of changes and likely increased compatibility once again. According to what's been said in the changelog, at least 207 patches from Proton 4.11 were either integrated directly into Wine upstream or aren't needed now.

Since Proton 5.0 brings in the latest DXVK v1.5.4, it also enables Direct 3D 9 to Vulkan by default now too. FAudio was also updated to 20.02, there's also improved surround sound support for older games and improved Steam client integration makes more games with Denuvo playable (Just Cause 3 now works but no saving, Batman: Arkham Knight, Abzu + more).

Overall, a very exciting update for getting more Windows-only titles playable easily on Linux through the native Steam client. Enabling more people to try out Linux and not lose access to their vast library of games.

Full changelog can be found here.

Note: If Proton 5.0 doesn't appear, you can try reloading Steam. It will also download it when you first load a game with it forced as the version for it.


Update 13/03/20 Proton 5.0-2 is out as a minor release:

  • Fix frequent crash introduced in Proton 5.0-1 related to video and audio playback.
  • Fix Planet Coaster crash on launch.
  • Fix Subnautica graphical issue.
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mylka Feb 9, 2020
Quoting: MohandevirJust Cause 3 and Batman Arkham Knight?! The only 2 games I was forced to play on my Nvidia Shield.

batman was free and DRM free on epic. you could use the epic .exe on steam
i dont get it, why they make games DRM free in gog and epic, but not steam
Koopacabras Feb 9, 2020
everybody is rushing here to say the batman game works fine, but have you tested it? played it? Ok now it launchs but it's unplayable because it crashes a lot and the grappling hook doesn't work, because some anticrack countermeasure. so sorry this is the same as nothing, you simply cannot progress in the game without the grappling hook, it was unplayable before and now it's still unplayable. That's what everyone is reporting on protondb. Sorry if I'm being pessimistic, but it's the reality. This has to stop some people will rush to buy the game, when it actually doesn't work.

The article doesn't help saying that it "makes more games with Denuvo playable" ... sorry Batman AK it's not playable. Liam you should clarify like you did with Just Cause 3. Same thing, you cannot progress without saves, you cannot progress in Batman AK without grappling hook. something in the lines of "Denuvo games started working, but some of them still have mayor issues" would be more precise.


Last edited by Koopacabras on 9 February 2020 at 4:20 am UTC
TheRiddick Feb 9, 2020
YAY, but really I will be super excited if we ever see Battleye and EAC anti-cheat software support in steamplay, when/if that happens it will be awesome!

Steam has offline support baked into their client. The only real concern is the multiplayer network components, I don't know if steam would release a client side server app to host such a thing if that day ever came.
(like perhaps in the event of the apocalypse and humanity is nuked to dust, we would need client side server hosting :) )


Last edited by TheRiddick on 9 February 2020 at 5:10 am UTC
Reki Feb 9, 2020
I wanted to try Tales of Berseria since it works apparently, but 5.0 isn't showing up in the Proton version dropdown (even though i installed it manually). Is there something I can do to make it work?
Yes, I restarted everything I could think of. Didn't help.


Last edited by Reki on 9 February 2020 at 1:16 pm UTC
ageres Feb 9, 2020
Quoting: RekiIs there something I can do to make it work?
Restart Steam.
Koopacabras Feb 9, 2020
for what is worth I'm pretty sure that if Steam dissapears courts will rule that they have to provide some way to acquire(download) the already purchased games. Mayority of court rulings says that steam sells games not rents neither has a subscription model.
But what personally think would be more likely, that instead of steam disappearing is that it would fusion... maybe not in the near future but maybe in 10 15 years with other company like Origin/Blizzard or even Epic Games, or maybe Google could acquire steam for their Stadia division since it has lots of IP I guess. That's a more likely scenario imho. Or steam could simply buy Blizzard or Rockstar, etc (or the other way around). Or maybe Disney would buy valve. This could bring unexpected changes since it's Gaben himself, who is pushing for Linux development, other company like (i.e) Disney could have their own completely different agenda.

Also OTOH commonly when an open source project fails because of commercial reasons, ( I mean it could happen that Proton fails because it's not generating enough revenue from Linux gamers) it doesn't dissapear, just look at Meego, Ubports, (now I can't remember others) but pretty sure there are plenty of examples of opensource projects still advancing despite having lost big companies pouring lots of money into them.


Last edited by Koopacabras on 9 February 2020 at 11:41 am UTC
Koopacabras Feb 9, 2020
Quoting: mylka
Quoting: MohandevirJust Cause 3 and Batman Arkham Knight?! The only 2 games I was forced to play on my Nvidia Shield.

batman was free and DRM free on epic. you could use the epic .exe on steam
i dont get it, why they make games DRM free in gog and epic, but not steam

that's interesting... once I had a problem with Sherlock Holmes the Devil's daugther and replacing the binaries with the drm-free gog version solved it. I wonder if the drm-free binaries can be replaced here as well, because as it stands the game is unplayable because the grappling hook doesn't work.
Mohandevir Feb 9, 2020
Quoting: mylka
Quoting: MohandevirJust Cause 3 and Batman Arkham Knight?! The only 2 games I was forced to play on my Nvidia Shield.

batman was free and DRM free on epic. you could use the epic .exe on steam
i dont get it, why they make games DRM free in gog and epic, but not steam

Maybe, but there is no way I'm going to create an account on Epic.
Reki Feb 9, 2020
Quoting: ageres
Quoting: RekiIs there something I can do to make it work?
Restart Steam.
That was the first thing I tried. I tried restarting steam, rebooting the whole system, toggling all the steam play options, etc, and it didn't work.
mylka Feb 9, 2020
Quoting: The_Aquabat
Quoting: mylka
Quoting: MohandevirJust Cause 3 and Batman Arkham Knight?! The only 2 games I was forced to play on my Nvidia Shield.

batman was free and DRM free on epic. you could use the epic .exe on steam
i dont get it, why they make games DRM free in gog and epic, but not steam

that's interesting... once I had a problem with Sherlock Holmes the Devil's daugther and replacing the binaries with the drm-free gog version solved it. I wonder if the drm-free binaries can be replaced here as well, because as it stands the game is unplayable because the grappling hook doesn't work.

according to protondb some ubisoft games also work with crack, because you dont need uplay
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