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Steam Play Proton 4.11-4 has been released into the wild

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Get ready for another weekend full of testing games, as Valve and CodeWeavers have put out a fresh official build of Steam Play Proton for your pleasure.

Here's the highlights:

  • Improve behavior of PlayStation 4 controllers and controllers connected by Bluetooth.
  • More improvements to mouse capture and window focus loss behavior.
  • Farming Simulator 19 is now playable.
  • Fix some graphics issues in A Hat in Time and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
  • Update DXVK to v1.3.4
  • Update D9VK to 0.21-rc-p.
  • Update FAudio to 19.09.

As always, find the full changelog here.

Great to see another release, every update should bring it that step further towards supporting more and more games whose developers or publishers don't wish to support Linux officially.

Something also related, Jason Evangelho who writes for Forbes and runs the Linux For Everyone Podcast (which I'm a guest on sometimes) just finished recording an episode speaking to CodeWeavers. Keep an eye on their Twitter or website for the episode going up in a few days, should be an interesting one.

What will you be testing with Steam Play this weekend? Let us know in the comments.

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Koopacabras Sep 14, 2019
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: chancho_zombie
Quoting: F.UltraWill be testing Resident Evil 4 and Remnant: From the Ashes this weekend.

haven't tested RE4 yet, but RE5, RE7 and revelations 1 and 2 all of them work, RE7 needs the media foundation fix.

They do? I didn't purchase them (the complete resident evil franchise have a Steam Sale right now) since only 4 seams to work without lots of workarounds and problems according to protondb.com. You should upload your info for those there!

yeah they work with workarounds because they use wmv files so either they need wmp10/11 or media foundation.

there's already a bug report about wmv files on proton github, there has been some work already but seems it isn't complete yet. Hopefully with the next proton releases it will be just click and play.


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Whitewolfe80 Sep 14, 2019
Quoting: scaineReckon I'll give Fallout 4 another shot to see if they've improved the mouse capture in that game.

I play that with 360 pad as i figure its an action rpg rather than a shooter so more console like but i get if people have to play with keyboard and mouse.
TheRiddick Sep 15, 2019
Quoting: TheReaperUKWINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b"


This shouldn't be needed if you use Proton-GE release (force it via properties works best).
einherjar Sep 15, 2019
Quoting: michaldybczakhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/steam-play-proton-411-4-has-been-release-into-the-wild.15011/comment_id=164471

I tested Proton 4.15 GE (which has d9vk on by default) and Gothic 3 still is very sluggish, so I guess improvements won't come fast. I also tested it on intel and got exactly the same frame rate so it doesn't seem to be GPU related.

I tested Proton 4.15 GE with Witcher 3. The mouse behaviour is broken then. Sometimes the mouse hits an invisible barrier. I do not have this problem, with the official Proton.
TheRiddick Sep 15, 2019
Gothic 3 is one of the games atm that runs extremely poorly with D9VK (and wined3d). Reasons unknown.
Koopacabras Sep 16, 2019
Quoting: einherjarI tested Proton 4.15 GE with Witcher 3. The mouse behaviour is broken then. Sometimes the mouse hits an invisible barrier. I do not have this problem, with the official Proton.

that happens to me with Hellblade and Just Cause 4 if I alt tab, the character can't fully turn around anymore only to a limit. Is that your problem? and that happens to me with the official proton too.

BTW I really recommend those games, both of them just click and play. Though for Hellblade you need beefy hardware like a 1070 or upwards to get 60fps, I get 30fps on the highly detailed maps 55fps on the more bare maps. Just Cause 4 oth can run in more modest hardware I think that on medium/low settings it can run on rx460 or a 1050.

Of all the games I tested Hellblade is the most demanding. A lot more demanding than Shadow of the tomb raider for example. Because on other games the performance penalty compared to windows is not that bad, I don't know why . I tried all the AMD drivers and in this case the best performant is the ACO valve driver, probably the bottleneck is that this game compiles a lot of shaders on the fly. I've read that the dxvk developer said on github that performance penalty on some games can be as much as 50%.

But anyway for me it's still playable because fps never go below 30 fps, so frames are stable, yeah it's console like but I really don't mind . It's really a masterpiece, no wonder it won so many awards nothing prevents me from appreciating it in 30fps. Glad this masterpiece runs on linux at all.


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rustybroomhandle Sep 16, 2019
The thing with the character not being able to look around. To fix it, sometimes you have to alt-tab to another window and then click back into the game window. A bit of a hassle, but not too bad.
einherjar Sep 16, 2019
Quoting: chancho_zombie
Quoting: einherjarI tested Proton 4.15 GE with Witcher 3. The mouse behaviour is broken then. Sometimes the mouse hits an invisible barrier. I do not have this problem, with the official Proton.

that happens to me with Hellblade and Just Cause 4 if I alt tab, the character can't fully turn around anymore only to a limit. Is that your problem? and that happens to me with the official proton too.

I had this issue without alt-tabbing out. It happens randomly but not with the official proton.
Koopacabras Sep 16, 2019
QuoteAnd secondly, even a GTX 1060 6GB usually reaches 70 fps in 1080p which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9l7yFI8juU&t=39s

that's on windows. I don't think on Linux a 1060 can reach stable 60 fps on high settings at 1080p. I was talking about 1080p on high settings.

I've got a 570 I mean it can hit 60fps on the not so packed maps, but saying that is missleading because half of the time I'm getting 30fps with high settings on 1080p. It really depends what part of the map you are benchmarking. And on windows my setup can hit stable 60fps, so the performance penalty on linux is about 50% that's why I don't think a 1060 can hit stable 60fps on high.


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Koopacabras Sep 16, 2019
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: chancho_zombieI was talking about 1080p on high settings.

I think you didn't mention this. The game can actually be played very well with a gtx 1060 6gb, even if you set every setting to the very highest. I think this video proves this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCaP3BSBgL4&t=159s

In the gameplay he is almost everywhere above 40 fps with everything at the highest setting. And without recording, he would probably achieve 10% higher fps. And his cpu is now 6 years old. So with a newer CPU you can easily get 10% higher fps.

So you don't need a gtx 1070 at all to play this game properly on Linux. A gtx 1060 is sufficient for around 60 fps in high settings if you use a new CPU and fast RAM.

I don't know why you sometimes have 50% performance losses but the maximum performance loss in this game should be around 33% in this game. It is only 50% in certain other games in exceptional situations. Do you use FAudio and Mesa ACO? These can both give higher fps.

well yes for me it's playable I already said that I don't care but if you look closely in that video there's lot of parts that go below 40 fps, like this part.

https://youtu.be/pCaP3BSBgL4?t=11m24s

or this part

https://youtu.be/pCaP3BSBgL4?t=15m6s

Also remember that on Linux the 570 performance it's not so different than a 1060 (it might be different on windows but on linux the performance of the 570 vs 1060 is close). According to the forum benchmarks my card is beating two 1060 out of three, this is the Nitro+ version which is heavily factory overclocked.
Maybe in this case the NVIDIA vulkan driver is performing better but what I said stands correct to get 60fps on high settings you need a 1070. That's what I said, I never said that you can't enjoy it a lower settings or it's not playable at lower settings. And also adding to that I think that you can't even get 60fps on medium settings with a 1060. Only way to get stable 60fps on 1060 is on lowest settings. ( there is little performance improvement between highest and medium settings in this game).

QuoteA gtx 1060 is sufficient for around 60 fps in high settings if you use a new CPU and fast RAM.

I don't think so this is not a cpu problem my cpu should be good enough, I have a ryzen 2600, my ram it's maybe the weakest part of my setup, it's 2666mhz but I don't think putting 3200mhz sticks could give me stable 60fps on high.
I recently switched from a ryzen 1600 to a 2600, and in some stuff like the Unigine benchmark the performance improvement is actually zero. This might be the case with this game, I don't think a better cpu will have that much impact on performance.

I should have been more clear, my point was that this is the most demanding proton game I ever tested, that's what I was trying to say. Maybe this is the most demanding proton game ever in the steam store? not sure.


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