Proton 10.0-2 Heads Into Testing Phase With Release Candidate Build

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The next stable Proton version is almost here, and testing has now opened for testing ahead of its release. Proton 10.0-2 may not have a release date yet, but it is moving over a good chunk of fixes from the Proton Experimental branch, including new playable games like WRC Generations and Stardust Skate, new Proton 10 regressions like VRChat video playback being fixed and The Sims 2 Legacy Collection being playable again, and individual fixes for games like The First Berserker: Khazan, The Finals, River City Girls, The Last of Us 2, and more.

Again, all of these changes are already included in the Proton Experimental, so if you are already using that branch, then you actually have these fixes already.

If you want to test out the candidate for yourself, search for Proton 10 in your Steam Deck library and go to the Game Details page. Then, head to the preferences, go to the Betas tab, and click the dropdown menu to change it to "Release Candidate."

Proton 10.0-2 Release Candidate Changelog (Tentative):

• Now playable: Stardust Skate, STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE, Champions of Anteria, IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover, Click&Fight, Tunnet, WRC Generations, Post Mortem.
• Fixed Proton 10 regressions:
  • Warframe launcher should no longer have issues displaying titlebar elements.
  • Enshrouded no longer crashes when refreshing server list.
  • VRChat video playback issue that affected some instances is fixed.
  • The Sims 2 Legacy Collection is playable again.
  • Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land is playable again.
  • Dishonored 2 window can be dragged around on Gnome again.
  • Forza Horizon 4 and 5 no longer require focus change to not have black screen.
  • Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD setting launcher renders correctly again.
  • OpenVR is working with 32 bit games again.
• Fixed The First Berserker: Khazan wrongly displaying a warning about the drive the game is installed on.
• Fixed Cornerpond not rendering transparency correctly.
• Fixed scaling in Imperiums: Greek Wars in fullscreen mode.
• Fixed games not starting when upgrading from a removed Proton installation.
• Fixed The Finals showing EOS EAC updater window twice on start.
• Fixed boss intro videos playback in River City Girls.
• Fixed Black Desert launcher rendering all black on Nvidia + Wayland setups.
• Mitigated OpenSSL-related issues with many games including Claybook, Gravel, SMITE that happen on newer Intel CPUs.
• Enabled nvapi for The Last Of Us 2.
• Improved rendering of Alpha Protocol's launcher.
• Improved situation with Once Human having bad stutter on certain setups.
• Fixed Risk of Rain 2 and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered not working on certains setups.
• Fixed Monster Jam Showdown not being able to link Epic Games account.
• Fixed Astroneer not being able to connect to an encrypted dedicated server.
• Fixed transfer account option in The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden.
• Fixed DLSS frame generation options being disabled in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
• Fixed radio not playing music in Fallout 3: GOTY.
• Fixed game lag spikes in Mary Skelter Finale, Death end re;Quest, Death end re;Quest 2, Megadimension Neptunia VIIR and Dragon Star Varnir.
• Fixed in-game screen capture in The Sims 2 Legacy Collection.
• Fixed querying graphics settings in Marvel Rivals.
• Fixed Tiny Troopers Global Ops having focus issues when using Steam Overlay on Steam Deck.
• Fixed The First Berserker: Khazan showing a warning about outdated OS/GPU drivers version.
• Fixed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition having wrong scaling with high DPI.
• Fixed Tower Unite crashing in VR mode.
• Fixed built-in web browser in Banter.
• Fixed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt having issue with Nvidia HairWorks - hair should no longer disappear.
• Fixed Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered showing green line at the bottom of video in the main menu.
• Fixed beginning of the Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier being a black screen.
• Fixed the new Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher not working.
• Fixed Xalia not being able to fully progress through prerequisite installation in MultiVersus using only the controller.
• Fixed a crash late in game in Crysis 2 Remastered.
• Fixed Defiance failing to connect to the game.
• Fixed touch input not working correctly in menus of No Man's Sky.
• Fixed controller support in MySims Kingdom.
• Fixed Space Engineers not registering trigger input with controllers.
• Fixed Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced showing driver version warning with AMD GPUs.
• Fixed screen darkening in e-Racer.
• Fixed some games using DirectStorage not working with Intel GPUs.
• Improved force feedback support in Assetto Corsa EVO.
• Fixed Dead Island 2 not detecting Epic Online Services and not allowing cross-play.
• Fixed controller detection issues with devices that do not have axes, only buttons.
• Fixed DOOM (2016) having issues with window decorations on certain setups.
• Fixed VRChat not being able to Alt+F4 out of game after playing some videos using Unity Player.
• Fixed VRChat crashing on some setups when h264 playback is attempted.
• Fixed Dune: Awakening DLSS support.
• Enabled Xalia by default instead of only for selected titles. It should work with most launchers using builtin Win32 controls.
• Updated Wine-Mono to 10.0.0.
• Updated Xalia to 0.4.6.
• Updated vkd3d to vkd3d-1.16-194-g7c0da1747a89
• Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.14.1-286-g2b766f7639cf
• Updated dxvk to v2.6.2-1-g08870ab62b36
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.9.0-8-g5fa4b3c7cddc

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