Valve has just launched Proton 9.0, the most recent stable release of this open-source tool that facilitates compatibility for Steam Play. It is founded on Wine and other components, allowing Windows games to be played on Linux systems.
Proton 9.0, based on Wine 9.0, introduces Dinogen Online, Photography Simulator Demo, George McGeehan Gamer Hero, THE FINALS, True Reporter. Mystery of Mistwood, Road to Vostok Demo, Witch on the Holy Night, and Lord of the Rings: Gollum video games.
The inventory of freshly supported games extends to Sonic Colors: Ultimate, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge, Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun and Firestorm, Aisling and the Tavern of Elves, Snares of Ruin 2, Insanity’s Blade, and also includes Bloody Walls.
Moreover, Far Cry 2, Far Cry 4, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, Outcast – Second Contact, and Prototype video games can now be played on systems with high core count CPUs.
Proton 9.0 also brings improvements to video games that were already supported, including Doom Eternal, Civilization V, Immortals Fenyx Rising, TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part I and II, Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories, BIOMUTANT, Imperiums: Greek Wars, Final Fantasy XIV Online, and MS Flight Simulator.
The BOOMEROAD, DORONKO WANKO, NOTTOLOT, Savant – Ascent REMIX, Super Robot Wars 30, Lethal Company, Phasmophobia, Lords of the Fallen, Harvestella, Wayfinder, Sea of Thieves, KING OF FIGHTERS XV, The Last Game, Airborne Kingdom, Bayonetta, and Escape from Monkey Island also received improvements in this release.
On top of that, Proton 9.0 enables nvapi by default for most games, improves support for input devices with 8+ axes, improves X input system mouse mappings, updates the file distribution method to save disk space, improves audio controls and spatialization in VRChat with AVPro, and implements the ability to ignore system mouse acceleration when using the raw input API.
Apart from Wine 9.0, under the hood, Proton 9.0 uses updated components like DXVK 2.3-47-ge2a46a34, vkd3d-proton 2.11.1-49-g32ff676b, and dxvk-nvapi 0.6.4-48-g0951afb. For more details about this release, check out the changelog on the project’s GitHub page.
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