{"id":372,"date":"2022-06-30T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steamdeckhq.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=372"},"modified":"2022-08-18T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T01:25:21","slug":"proton-updates-experimental-and-ge-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steamdeckhq.com\/news\/proton-updates-experimental-and-ge-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton Updates: Experimental and GE Get Fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Proton, the compatibility layer to play Windows games on Linux, has gotten a few updates in the past couple days, including a brand new one to Experimental that came out earlier today. While the GE fork of Proton took about a month break, then released 5 new versions in the span of 3 days, which is always exciting to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Proton Experimental:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Valve updated their experimental branch of Proton earlier today, incorporating fixes from Proton 7.0-3 while adding in a few of their own. This includes fixes for video playback in some games, launcher fixes for Final Fantasy XIV and Elite Dangerous, and making more games playable entirely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>All changes from Proton 7.0-3.<\/li><li>Now playable: Karmaflow The Rock Opera Videogame - Act I &amp; Act II, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Atelier Meruru,The Rising of the Shield Hero: Relive The Animation, Paladins.<\/li><li>Fix Tekken 7 crashing at launch.<\/li><li>Improve video playback for many games that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ValveSoftware\/Proton\/commit\/c5f0d51b3e28f2502ff5c975ac0a98dabf61b0b5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously required targeted hacks<\/a>.<\/li><li>Fix video playback in: POSTAL: Brain Damaged, Turbo Overkill, Slayers X Demo.<\/li><li>Fix The Ball displaying error message on the first launch.<\/li><li>Use copy on write for prefixes on supported files systems.<\/li><li>Fix SCP: Secret Laboratory crashing on launch after a game update.<\/li><li>Fix Bloons TD 6 crashing on touch input.<\/li><li><strong>Fix Final Fantasy XIV launcher exiting silently when there's not enough space to download the update.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Fix Elite Dangerous and other launchers not working properly when cloned displays are present.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Fix Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Zombies and Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Multiplayer crashing after connecting online.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Fix Azur Lane: Crosswave hanging on a black screen for some users.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Fix Chrono Trigger randomly crashing during cutscenes.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Improve video playback in Persona 4 Golden.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Implement Vulkan other process rendering (used by nw.js games).<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Implement network video support for The Good Life and VRChat.<\/strong><\/li><li>Update file distribution method to save disk space.<\/li><li>Update dxvk to include the latest development work.<\/li><li>Update vkd3d-proton to include the latest development work.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view the changelog directly from them on their <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ValveSoftware\/Proton\/wiki\/Changelog\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ValveSoftware\/Proton\/wiki\/Changelog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Github<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Proton GE:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past 5 days, Proton GE went from 7-20 to 7-25 and had fixes all along the way. These ranged from hotfixes for games, to FSR updates for 32:9 resolution, as well as pulling some fixes from the official Proton version. GloriousEggroll, developer of Proton GE, included a bunch of game fixes in Proton 7-21 as well for games like Fall Guys, Sonic Adventure 2, Total War Rome II, and Bionic Commander Rearmed. You can view the full releases and what they brought on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/GloriousEggroll\/proton-ge-custom\/releases\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/GloriousEggroll\/proton-ge-custom\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Github<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton, the compatibility layer to play Windows games on Linux, has gotten a few updates in the past couple days, including a brand new one to Experimental that came out earlier today. 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