Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements (nerds.xyz) 35
BrianFagioli writes: Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles. The release restores compatibility for many EA games after a recent EA App update, moves classics like Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and SHOGUN: Total War from Proton Experimental into the stable release, and adds support for games including Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, and Deadly Premonition. Valve also fixed crashes in HELLDIVERS 2, restored No Man's Sky VR support, improved Steam Overlay compatibility with EA games, addressed KDE and GNOME desktop issues, and rebased Proton on Wine 11.0 with updated graphics components. The full list of changes can be found here.
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If I was getting into gaming my first stop would probably be a used PS5 right now which you can get her around $400. If I was really broke I might dig up an old PS4. With some effort you can get those for next to nothing and they should be usable for at least another three or four years before Sony starts shutting down servers.
So I'm not saying that the steam machine is bad value in the current
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consoles are a scam, they are an absolutely horrible value proposition.
vendor lock in is terrible, PC is king.
Re: I really wish RAM prices would come back down (Score:2, Offtopic)
If you want a HTPC you could use a $300 mini PC until this bubble shit. Now the same machine is $500
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I know some people who gain like that but it's not anything anyone's going to really want.
If I was building something out though I could do it for about $800 right now. I Think I would struggle to do it for less but I might pull off $50
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You could pick up a Wyse 5070 for $50. They're weak processors but have UHD graphics chips and will play 4k video with hardware acceleration no problem. I stream free sites like Tubi and Pluto through Chrome without problems. Firefox works sometimes but uses way more cpu compared to Chrome.
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Fortunately, everyone seems to be waking up to the fact that AI isn't a silver bullet and r
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The constant broken record....
Dude their isn't going to be a bunch of 'competition' in spaces like DRAM. The upfront capital costs to make top drawer parts is simply to high. It isnt collusion, its natural monopolies.
Nobody is going to make or finance the investment required to build high capacity world class chip fabs, to not enjoy the prime mover advantage because the risk that as soon as they do something like magnetic-IC memory gets a commercially viable implementation and leaves them bag holding a bu
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If we had some actual competition they maybe could.
Actual competition has no impact on a supply and demand curve. There's no indication that the current prices in the market aren't competitive. There's just not enough supply to feed the hungry deep pockets of bulk demand.
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Well hot damn, if you think the market is ripe for more competition, get down to the bank and get yourself a business loan and build a billion dollar fab that will be obsolete by the time you open it.
Have a fun talk with the loan underwriters. And maybe you'll learn why nobody else is doing that either.
High precision, high yield, high density lithography is hard, and burdened by patent hell by the companies that do it best. You can't get the machines to actually make RAM modules, because the company that
Ease Of Use? (Score:2)
I haven't tried using WINE for 20 years or more. The last time I tried it, there was major pain getting it running an dependency hell. Then, it didn't do a great job with only a few Windows programs able to run and not run well.
Does new WINE/Proton run stuff well? Is it easy to use?
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Yes, it's fine.
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I think some games run faster in proton than in windows. Not sure if they may count the overall system (so also comparing Linux system services with Windows ones) but I guess for a gamer only the FPS of the result matter, not if the game sucks on Windows more than on Linux or if Windows sucks generally.
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On basic 20 year old windows binaries. God help you for anything CAD related.
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wine you have to install and setup, while there are tools to help. steam itself install the proton and do the setup, so:
- via steam, it is just click and play for most games, you don't even know that you are using proton - https://www.protondb.com/explo... [protondb.com]
- a few rare games may need switch proton version or do some finetune (try without changes, if fails see the protondb above and check if you need some version or parameter/file)
- a several FPS run fine, but them fail to check the anti-cheat (some is kerne
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I use Fedora, so I can only talk about that. With Fedora, Wine is in the standard repos and all you need to do is tell the appropriate package management program (I use dnf, the CLI program, because it gives me the control I want.) to install wine, and away it goes, finding and installing wine and all the needed dependencies without any further work on your part except accepting the tran
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Yes, most of the difficulty with wine is installing the windows applications, not wine itself. There are many knobs and compatibility options to adjust. Proton has done that for you for a huge number of the games in steam.
Re:Ease Of Use? (Score:4, Informative)
It's really easy. I'm primarily a gamer and have been completely Windows free for 3 years now. Proton runs all my games and I don't mess with them to get them running. Steam games are fully automatic, but for non-steam games you just add them into steam and tell it to use Proton.
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Steam games are fully automatic, but for non-steam games you just add them into steam and tell it to use Proton.
You can also use Lutris or now there's something called Heroic Launcher which is supposed to have replaced it, but last time I tried to install it, it didn't work :) Lutris with Proton is neat.
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So, we need a gaming monopoly to help Wine? (Score:2)
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Well if your understanding is completely backwards sure you may come to that conclusion. In reality it was Wine that was helping the gaming monopoly. Proton is a fork of Wine, it doesn't upstream its changes back to Wine, much like Ubuntu doesn't feed its changes back to Debian.
Also "monopoly" isn't a bad thing. "Monopolizing" is a bad thing. The verb, not the noun. The noun is perfectly fine providing they don't abuse their market position and start doing the verb, and currently there's little evidence the
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You can opt to choose to play offline. Depending on how you have it setup, you may not have access to your normal saves as they were cloud saved. I don't know if you can stay in offline mode forever. There may come a point where it insist you reconnect to the Internet but I've never tested it. I do keep my saves local just in case there is an outage, but that's quite rare.
I'm not saying it's a perfect solution and I generally agree with the idea behind your post. I keep all my media backed up locally as opp
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Proton is a series of compatibility patches applied to Wine.
Incorrect. Proton is so much more than just this.
It's also unnerving to have a single point of failure--for most of your games.
It's not a single point of failure, because there are many different versions of Proton released by different people/groups - Proton GE, Cachyos Proton, DW-Protin, Proton-EM...and more.
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Proton is a fork of Wine, it doesn't upstream its changes back to Wine
oh look [codeweavers.com], that's more bullshit from you. Used that link to show how out of date you are... you're wrong from the beginning of the project.
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Apparently, as nobody in the community seriously attempted to create Proton before Valve did. I'd be upset about it if Proton wasn't Free software, but it is! I also wouldn't call Steam a monopoly, it's just very popular.
Tangentially related: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy... [gnu.org]