After several weeks of testing Valve has released Proton 9.0-3 as the newest version of this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for being able to enjoy Windows games on Linux.
Proton 9.0-3 gets more Windows games running on Linux such as Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Flatout 3, Syberia, Unity of Command II, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, and others. Proton 9.0-3 also has many bug and regression fixes, support for Direct3D 12 within OpenXR, Wine Mono 9.2, updated VKD3D-Proton to newer Git, updated DXVK and DXVK-NVAPI to newer Git snapshots, and more.
The Proton 9.0-3 release notes mention:
– Now playable:
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (desktop only)
Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!
Banyu Lintar Angin
Dinner with an Owl,
Farlight 84
Flatout 3
KinitoPET
Owl Observatory Demo
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Super
Sword of Convallaria
Syberia
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION
To Pixelia Demo
Unity of Command II
Zaccaria Pinball
– Fixed 9.0 regressions:
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare’s DLC is playable again.
Bionic Commando is playable again.
Controllers work again in Sonic Forces.
GRID Autosport and GRID 2 are playable again.
Noita mods no longer fail to update.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide no longer freezes randomly when processing shaders for the cache.
– Improved language support for Guild Wars 2.
– Enable controller support in the launchers of Fallout 3 (standard and GOTY edition) via Xalia.
– Fixed cutscene playback in Iragon games.
– Fixed Yakuza Kiwami not working on certain setups.
– Added support for D3D12 in OpenXR.
– Fixed AVPro playback in VRChat.
– Fixed video quality of live streamed episodes in Quantum Break.
– Fixed artifacts in Yakuza 4 Remastered opening video.
– Improved support for workshop levels in Zeepkist.
– Improved loading time of Arcanum.
– Fixed Aimlabs having broken News section.
– Fixed RAID: World War II randomly hanging on start.
– Fixed Strip Fighter ZERO not starting on some setups.
– Fixed Undecember not being playable after a recent game update.
– Fixed missing cursor in IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition.
– Fixed a crash in Starfield: Creation Kit.
– Fixed text not being displayed during the installation of EA Desktop launcher.
– Fixed “Customize Setup” not working during EA Launcher installation.
– Fixed Halo Infinite rendering using a weird resolution on a Steam Deck.
– Improved microphone support in Squad.
– Fixed License Agreement not displaying correctly in Romance of the Three Kingdoms [JP].
– Fixed FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE displaying white screen on launch on Steam Deck OLED.
– Fixed microphone not working with Helldivers 2 after a recent game update.
– Fixed freezes in Dinogen Online.
– Fixed Dinogen Online crashing randomly on start.
– Fixed SCP Secret Laboratory crashing after a recent game update.
– Fixed Burnout Paradise Remastered crashing when an input video device is plugged in.
– Improved memory usage of Burnout Paradise Remastered and lowered the chances of crashing.
– Fixed font rendering in Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.
– Fixed Once Human crashing when trying to join a server or opening the EULA on fresh Proton prefixes.
– Fixed Ubisoft Connect requiring a manual log in with a new prefix with Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (some other games may still suffer from that similarly as on Windows with a clean Ubisoft Connect install).
– Fixed The Finals not being playable after a recent game update.
– Fixed video playback in Spirit Hunter: NG.
– Improved memory usage when playing videos in 32bit games.
– Fixed font rendering in Shady Brook – A Dark Mystery Text Adventure.
– Fixed Steam Deck users being forced to use MTL145 nickname in Project Kunai.
– Fixed connecting with Unreal Insights to games running under Proton.
– Added a warning that appears in Proton Log for systems that have low file descriptor limit (e.g. non-systemd distributions).
– Fixed video playback in One Finger Death Punch.
– Fixed Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit crashing when reaching first boss.
– Updated Wine Mono to 9.2.0.
– Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.13-64-g47840a4bb614.
– Updated dxvk to v2.4-40-gd0ea5a4a87c9.
– Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.7.1-19-gbd542144518d.
Those building Proton from source can find it via GitHub while otherwise Proton 9.0-3 should be rolling out shortly to stable with Steam Play.
