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- Fixed The First Berserker: Khazan showing a warning about outdated OS/GPU drivers version.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.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
