Linux gaming continues to grow in popularity valve and its Proton compatibility layer. with the release of Proton 10.0-4Steam users on Linux can now play 19 additional games that previously required experimental builds, as well as several bug fixes that improve stability and performance across the board.
Proton 10.0-4 Linux Games
All of the following Linux games were previously functional in Proton Experimental and are now officially supported in Proton 10.0-4:
- Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
- Changeling VR
- Summoners War: Rush
- quantum threshold
- reach
- Fellowship
- Metal Slug: Awakening
- obsessive shadow
- Drop Dead: The Cabin
- Zero Calibur 2 Remastered
- Lost Memories 3 Side Stories
- death by scrolling
- stellar access
- girls front line
- module
- distant world 2
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- Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
- chronology
The list includes a mix of standard PC titles and VR games, further cementing Linux’s position as a viable gaming platform.
Proton 10.0-4 Features List
The latest update doesn’t make any changes to the foundation of Proton yet – it’s still based on Wine 10 rather than the newly released Wine 11 – but it does bring meaningful improvements. list of all Bug fixes coming with Proton 10.0-4: :
- Fixed Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun not being playable in French.
- Fixed Far Cry 5 showing warning for older GPU drivers with AMD GPUs.
- Definitive Age of Empires IV Anniversary Edition with Intel GPS showing GPU driver warning.
- Fixed music playback in Transcendence.
- Fixed Mystery Manner: Hidden objects not displaying anything on GameScope.
- Fixed HDR in Far Cry 5 on OLED Steam Deck.
- Fixed Crystal of Atlan crashing on desktop.
- Fixed broken account in Crystal of Atlant with GameScope.
- Fixed Adventures of Fluzz incorrectly displaying the “No Device” window, making the game unplayable with GameScope.
- Fixed Marvel Rivals crashing in benchmarks with AMD GPUs.
- Fixed Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Wild Assault giving incorrect warnings about being installed on HDD.
- Long waits have been fixed at every launch of several Xbox Game Studios games, including Avod, Grounded 2, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and The Outer Worlds 2.
- Fixed Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen crashing on systems with long Steam library paths.
- Fixed in-game browser in Figmin XR.
- Fixed server/lobby list in Men of War II.
- Fixed Jigsaw: History Untold displaying GPU error.
- Fixed Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 crashing with monitors supporting multiple resolutions.
- Fixed Arch Riders stuttering on systems with non-Nvidia GPUs due to trying to view the game and constantly load NVAPI.
- Improved support for Sony controllers in Tekken 8.
- Fixed haptics support for DualSense controllers, which should now work in most games that support it.
- Fixed audio playback in Rocket Jockey.
- Fixed an issue where For Honor would not start on non-Steam decks.
- Fixed Store in For Honor not working on desktop.
- Fixed the in-game screenshot feature in Moharta.
- Fixed Cladun X3 hanging on exit.
- Fixed Rocket Jockey not being playable on some installations.
- Fixed Zalia not interacting correctly with dialogues created by ARC Raiders.
- Fixed Atelier Resleriana [JP] Not working on some setups.
- Added support for speech recognition in Phasmophobia.
- Fixed video playback in Okunyumu! And aquarium.
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows not playing after a recent game update has been fixed.
- Fixed language selection not working in Black Squad launcher.
- Fixed voice line playback in Rigid Force Alpha.
- Fixed 7.1 audio channel mapping in Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, Claire Obscure: Expedition 33, and potentially many other games.
- Fixed horizontal mouse scroll being incorrectly registered as a back/forward button.
- Fixed Thai font rendering in Warframe’s launcher.
- Fixed Revolver360: Actor crashing on keyboard input.
- Fixed text input in Mysteries of Grindia.
- Fixed video playback in Vishwa Vijay.
- Fixed a crash in Marvin’s Mittens after the cutscene.
- Fixed Sword of the Stars: Clicking on an enemy causes the crater to crash.
- Fixed Lemma crashing randomly.
- Fixed Ukrainian and Russian font rendering in Trenetic.
- Fixed Proton 10 regression:
- Videos should play correctly again in King of Bones and Indivisible.
- Sackboy: A Big Adventure should no longer display a series of errors on refresh prefix.
- GodsArena Online is now registering touch/mouse inputs correctly.
- Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions is playable again.
- Killer Instinct should no longer crash at the end of a match.
- Workshop integration should work again in The Conquest of Go.
- Chrono trigger should no longer flicker in fullscreen mode.
- Camera panning should work as expected in Dungeons & Dragons Online.
- Blood Rush should no longer crash with the new Proton prefixes.
- Added support for Steamworks SDK 1.63.
- Wine Mono updated 10.4.1.
- vkd3d-proton updated v3.0b.
- vkd3d updated 1.18.
Major Proton 10.0-4 bug fixes and improvements
In addition to new game support, Proton 10.0-4 addresses issues affecting several well-known titles, including:
- far cry 5
- Age of Empires IV Anniversary Edition
- marvel rival
- shadow of assassin’s creed
- chrono trigger
- Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Valve also fixed a long-standing bug that was causing increased launch times for some people xbox game studio Titles that influence games, such as Accepted, grounded 2, Indiana Jones and the Great CircleAnd the outside world 2.
Audio enthusiasts will also appreciate the improvements to 7.1 channel audio mapping in titles Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut And Chiaroscuro: Campaign 33.
Under-the-hood update
Proton 10.0-4 comes with updated components that enable these improvements, including new versions of VKD3D (the Vulkan translation layer from Direct3D 12) and Wine Mono 10.4.1. Although the leap to Wine 11 isn’t here yet, this update lays a solid foundation for future benefits.
How to get Proton update?
Update rolling out automatically Steam On Linux. If you want to manually select a specific Proton version for a game, you can do so by right-clicking on the title in your Library and navigating to Properties and Compatibility.
What is a proton and why does it matter?
Proton is Valve’s Windows compatibility layer for Linux, built on top of open-source Liquor Project. It allows Windows-only PC games to run on Linux via Steam with minimal setup, translating DirectX calls to Vulkan and handling Windows APIs behind the scenes.
For Linux gamers, Proton is the main reason thousands of Windows titles are now playable without dual-booting or virtualization.
Linux gaming keeps getting better
Each Proton release refutes the old notion that Linux is not suitable for gaming. With more titles becoming playable and fixes to long-standing issues, Proton 10.0-4 is another strong step forward – especially for players who want a console-like experience on PC without leaving Linux behind.
