Valve Software has updated Proton 8.0-4 with support for various games and updated components such as Wine-Mono, VKD3D, and DXVK. Proton is a tool based on WINE for use with the Steam client, which allows games that are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system.
Proton 8.0-4
- Previously playable only with Proton Experimental:
- Arthurian Legends
- CHAOS CODE -NEW SIGN OF CATSTROPHE-
- EverQuest 2
- Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
- Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition
- STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II
- The Longest Journey
- Fixed a few Proton 8.0 regressions:
- A race condition that caused controller hotplug to not work reliably is fixed.
- Have a Nice Death no longer crashes on launch.
- Using re4_tweaks no longer breaks mouse support in Resident Evil 4 (2005).
- Makai Kingdom: Reclaimed and Rebound is playable again.
- Echo (751320) works again on Steam Deck.
- Debug console in Scrap Mechanic is no longer broken.
- Fixed Overwatch 2 stopping to register controller inputs after an online match has started.
- Fixed Battle.net always trying to update itself.
- Fixed EA Desktop having a blank log-in window after its recent update.
- Fixed an issue with EA Desktop sometimes not launching after an update.
- Fixed Baldur's Gate 3 launcher sometimes displaying dxdiag error dialog.
- Fixed Street Fighter 6 claiming that Proton players are always connected via wired interface.
- Fixed periodic stuttering in Street Fighter 6 when playing without internet for a longer time.
- Fixed Garry's Mod, Dark Souls II, Aura: Fate of the Ages and Train Simulator not working on certain setups using very long library paths.
- Fixed videos in Empyrion - Galactic Survival not working on certain setups.
- Fixed flipped videos in Secret of Mana.
- Fixed Aura: Fate of the Ages missing some audio cues.
- Fixed Dwarf Fortress SDL2 beta crashing on launch.
- Fixed some Unreal Engine 4 games (e.g. Stray, System Shock (2023), Dead By Daylight and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun) crashing with Intel GPUs.
- Fixed Final Fantasy XIII having broken input after main window loses focus.
- Fixed Locoland not allowing to select resolution on Steam Deck in desktop mode.
- Fixed Rainbow Six Extraction not working on the Steam Deck.
- Fixed Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation DirectX 12 mode not working.
- Fixed Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition failing to launch after a recent game update.
- Fixed Age of Empires IV crashing when locale is set to Traditional/Simplified Chinese.
- Fixed Age of Wonders 4's Paradox Launcher not working on Nvidia GPUs.
- Fixed games crashing when dragging files / images over a game window.
- Fixed Ubisoft Connect not working after its recent update.
- Fixed not being able to interact with minimum requirements prompt in Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition.
- Fixed Ship of Fools crashing when another player joins online session.
- Fixed controller input in Mamashroom and The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales.
- Fixed not working credits in Dark Parables: The Exiled Prince Collector's Edition.
- Enabled nvapi for the following titles:
- Alone in the Dark
- Atomic Heart
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Demonologist
- Desordre
- Doge Simulator
- Icarus
- Layers of Fear
- Portal Prelude RTX
- Rainbow Six Extraction
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Remnant 2
- Severed Steel
- Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
- Showgunners
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Strayed Lights
- Trepang2
- Voidtrain
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Updated Wine-Mono to 8.0.1.
- Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.10.
- Updated dxvk to to v2.3-5-g83dc4678.
- Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.6.4.
- Updated vkd3d (shader compiler) to include recent upstream improvements.
- Added support for Steamworks SDK 1.58.
