Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux.
Proton 10.0 is re-based against the recent Wine 10.0 stable release. Proton 10.0-1 beta makes a number of games now playable that previously only worked on Linux if using Proton Experimental. The newly-enabled Windows games include 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, and X Rebirth VR Edition. There are also fixes/improvements to a number of games, improved performance for DiRT Rally 2.0, Final Fantasy XVI demo fixes, and many other game specific issues resolved.
Proton 10.0 beta in addition to upgrading against Wine 10.0 has updated to DXVK 2.6.1, DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.0, VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 Git, Wine-Mono 9.4, Steamworks SDK 1.62, and other updates.
The lengthy list of game improvements and other enhancements to find with Proton 10.0 beta for Steam Play can be found via the release announcement just posted to GitHub.
