Proton Experimental updates to Proton 10 with fixes for Marvel Rivals, Oblivion Remastered and more for Steam Deck / Linux

Now that Proton 10 had a Beta release to bring improved game compatibility to Linux Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve have also updated their testing ground with Proton Experimental seeing an update to be based on Proton 10 plus extra fixes.

If you’re confused on the different Proton versions be sure to read my guide.

All the changes now in Proton Experimental for the May 1st update are listed below:

• All changes from Proton 10.0-1.
• Now playable: Stardust Skate, STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE, Champions of Anteria.
• Fixed transfer account option in The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden.
• Fixed querying graphics settings in Marvel Rivals.
• Mitigated OpenSSL-related issues with Claybook, Gravel, SMITE that happen on newer Intel CPUs.
• Fixed The Elden Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered sometimes wrongly claiming that it’s not installed on an SSD.
• Fixed Jusant crashing with Intel GPUs.
• Fixed Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered showing green line at the bottom of video in the main menu.
• Fixed Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier beginning of the game being a black screen.
• Fixed Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced showing driver version warning with AMD GPUs.
• Fixed Space Engineers not registering trigger input with controllers.
• Fixed controller support in MySims Kingdom.
• Fixed touch input not working correctly in menus of No Man’s Sky.
• Fixed Defiance failing to connect.
• Fixed the new Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher not working.
• Fixed Proton 10 regressions:

  • Fixed scaling in Imperiums: Greek Wars in fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed VRChat crashing on some setups when h264 playback is attempted.

• Update Wine-Mono to 10.0.0.
• Update Xalia to 0.4.6.
• Updated dxvk, dxvk-nvapi and vkd3d-proton and vkd3d-shader to include the latest development work.

Source: Valve

Valve also did a small bump to the Proton 10 Beta (version 10.0-1c) that included some extra fixes:

• Fixed issue where generated libraryfolders.vdf file had garbage memory written to it breaking software relying on it, e.g. mod launchers.
• Restored behavior that does best-effort Proton prefix upgrades when a unknown prefix version is detected.

How to get it

All you have to do is ensure you’ve got Proton Experimental installed by searching for it directly in your Steam Library. Then you can (if you need to) swap over the Proton version on a game by game basis. Valve will automatically pick what’s best when games go through Deck Verified (which also applies to Desktop Linux).

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.