Proton 10.0-2 gets a small release candidate update for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck

Valve released a small update to the current testing build of Proton 10.0-2, ahead of the upcoming stable release for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck. The first Beta for Proton 10 was released back in April, with a Release Candidate arriving in late June.

To test it out you need to manually install Proton 10 from your Steam Library, and then additionally opt into the Beta on Proton 10 for the Release Candidate build, otherwise you’ll be on the initial Beta.

Writing an update on the GitHub issue, developer Arek Hiler noted these additional changes:

• Disabled Xalia for Rockstar Launcher – aftar a recent update it got native contoller support which resulted in registering events twice.
• Fixed windowing regression introduced in 10.0-2 builds that made RiME not behave correctly when alt-tabbing.

The full list of changes on top of that for the Proton 10.0-2 Release Candidate are:

• 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.
  • Dishonored 2 window can be dragged around on Gnome 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.

• Fixed The First Berserker: Khazan wrongly displaying a warning about the drive the game is installed on.
• Fixed Cornerpond not rendering transparency correctly.
• 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 having focus issues when using Steam Overlay on Steam Deck.
• Fixed The First Berserker: Khazan showing a warning about outdated OS/GPU drivers version.
• 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.
• 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 v2.6.2-1-g08870ab62b36
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.9.0-8-g5fa4b3c7cddc

The Release Candidate changes are all in addition to what arrived in the Proton 10 Beta initially:

• 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.

There’s no exact word on when Proton 10 will arrive officially and not classed as a Beta, Valve will set it live properly once they feel it’s ready. Eventually, it will then replace Proton 9.0-4 as the main stable default version of Proton.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.