This is quite an exciting release for Steam Play, as Valve just put out a brand new release of Proton.
It moves the version of Wine used from 3.16 to 4.2 which includes a rather large set of improvements by itself, so it should have quite an interesting effect on what games are now playable. What's especially nice, is that Valve said 166 patches from Proton 3.16 "have been upstreamed or are no longer needed".
That wasn't all, DXVK also saw a version bump so it's now using 1.0.1 and FAudio too joined the party with it pulling in a newer build "19.03-13-gd07f69f".
There's a bunch of other improvements too like better mouse behaviour in certain games, with Resident Evil 2 and Devil May Cry 5 specifically mentioned. Networking fixes made it in for NBA 2K19 and NBA 2K18 as well.
Controller/Gamepad duplication in games that use SDL2 like RiME should also be fixed, which I am sure many will appreciate as decent gamepad support could be something to make or break Steam Play. Any small hassle that gets fixed, is welcome.
Proton's special fullscreen "hack" should also now work with "GDI-based games", there's better support for IVRInput for controller input in VR and more improvements and new features to the build system.
As always, you can find the changelog here.
Do note though, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais said on Twitter that you will want to install it manually from Steam's "Tools" area. Griffais said "That process is supposed to be automated, but there is currently a bug with games that use another redistributable".
You can find that here, for those that don't know:
Comandante Ñoñardo Mar 27, 2019
Quoting: GuestQuoting: gradyvuckovicValve is there some way I can send you money without buying a game?? Because seriously **thankyou**.
Oh my god I got so many games to test now. I'm going to have to redo every one of my borked games to see what difference 4.2 makes. This is gonna be soooo guud.
Thankyou thankyou Valve!
This is why I absolutely refuse to even consider downloading a free game from EGS, screw Epic, they hate gamers in general and they hate us as well, they won't even port games made in a Linux compatible engine or port a store made in Electron. The sooner they go out of business the better off the entire world will be.
Sure you can give them money. Buy in-game items and upgrades for their free 2 play titles like CS Go, TF2, and Dota 2. Be sure to always buy on steam to help support Valve, etc.
And you can buy Crossover 18.5 for support directly the PROTON developers, Codeweavers.
Quoting: theghostMost important question:Use this one, and you will have all sounds. https://github.com/Kron4ek/FAudio-Builds
Is the Skyrim SE sound bug (no NPC voice) finally fixed?
I do that in this video, and play a lot time with it, with no problem:
https://youtu.be/OcA8Cykd7U0
Last edited by deathxxx on 27 March 2019 at 1:59 pm UTC
Quoting: deathxxxFor: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special EditionThat is short version, how i do it!
With Proton 4.2-1, still have no music and speech sounds, without this: https://github.com/Kron4ek/FAudio-Builds
https://youtu.be/aIM6KlKn_hE
Quoting: deathxxxQuoting: theghostMost important question:Use this one, and you will have all sounds. https://github.com/Kron4ek/FAudio-Builds
Is the Skyrim SE sound bug (no NPC voice) finally fixed?
I do that in this video, and play a lot time with it, with no problem:
https://youtu.be/OcA8Cykd7U0
So it's not fixed yet.
Well thx for the info.
I will stick to the normal version of Skyrim.
As I don't want to tinker with extra hacks.
Quoting: GuestI downloaded nearly all versions.
Me too, but in the future this might be a problem with a lot of versions. Unless Valve start to remove old releases.
Quoting: GuestMy guess is it won't be that much of a problem because Valve will take care of the regressions and older versions will be less necessary. Eventually they will be able to phase them out as you suggest. But it would take an awful amount of work to QA all those games and if they restricted Proton to the game they whitelisted themselves there would be an uproar.Welllll . . . I would expect there will always be a few regressions when a new version comes out; that seems to be the way of all software. So there will be a use for a couple versions back. But it's not totally unrealistic to hope there won't be really long-lasting regressions, so that there won't be any need for versions from years previous.
wvstolzing Mar 27, 2019
Comandante Ñoñardo Mar 27, 2019
I remind you that this is a WINE issue and not a GAME issue...
I tested it on a Windows 7 machine and the bug is not present there.
Quoting: mrdeathjrWarhammer 40000 Space Marinesproton 4.2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg8BQKR9NhQ
without "modified" exe?
how, in the name of the emperor. :D
with my pc he still doesn't want to start
https://pastebin.com/qSFP9PLa log file
P.S.: my first post... now i go back into shadows.
Quoting: TorqachuQuoting: mrdeathjrWarhammer 40000 Space Marinesproton 4.2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg8BQKR9NhQ
without "modified" exe?
how, in the name of the emperor. :D
with my pc he still doesn't want to start
https://pastebin.com/qSFP9PLa log file
P.S.: my first post... now i go back into shadows.
Yeah works with emperor special exe
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