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Fixed The First Berserker: Khazan showing a warning about outdated OS/GPU drivers version.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.
