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Proton 11

After five beta updates and tons of experimental changes, Proton 11 has officially been released into stable. This means that a lot of the changes from the beta have been tested and are ready for primetime for everybody to use, and there are a lot of changes in this update.

There is a good chunk of new playable games, including the classic Resident Evil 1 and 2, the classic Dino Crisis 1 and 2, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, SHOGUN: Total War, Gothic 1 Classic, Breath of Fire 4, and Deadly Premonition. All of these games either had some issue running at all or needed Proton Experimental, but now they should work just fine with Proton 11.

There are also lots of fixes for a multitude of games and software, including fixing Far Cry 4’s hanging, Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition’s keyboard registration, Chrono Trigger flickering in Windowed mode, BlazBlue Centralfiction’s intro video, No Man Sky’s VR mode, Hollow Knight registering the “Steam” button on the Deck as a left trigger, and REDLauncher won’t take a long time to exit anymore.

We also have updates to all of its components, which bring in fixes and improvements through DXVK, vkd3d, Wine, and FEX, which was added for ARM support. Xalia was also updated for controller support in launchers, and this one brings support for Red Faction: Armageddon, Final Fantasy 10, Metal Slug XX, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, and more.

The new update should automatically be added to the download queue if you have Proton 11 beta already installed, but if you don't, it can be manually installed by searching for Proton 11 on the store on your Steam Deck.

Proton 11.0-1 Update Changelog:

  • Now playable (previously worked with Proton Experimental):
    • Universe Generator: The Golden Sword
    • DCS World Steam Edition
    • Resident Evil (1996)
    • Resident Evil 2 (1998)
    • Dino Crisis
    • Dino Crisis 2
    • From Dust
    • Blaite
    • Don't Die Dateless, Dummy!
    • METAL GEAR SURVIVE
    • Warhammer: Vermintide 2
    • Metal Fatigue
    • SHOGUN: Total War
  • Newly playable:
    • Unknown Faces
    • Gothic 1 Classic
    • X-Plane 12
    • Breath of Fire IV
    • Deadly Premonition
  • Fixed video playback in She Sees Red.
  • Fixed rendering of certain symbols with Ukranian language option in Chambers.
  • Fixed voice chat in Phasmophobia lobby for desktop players.
  • Improved rendering of Rockstar Launcher popups.
  • Fixed Sea of Solitude showing black screen on Proton.
  • Fixed many EA games being unplayable after a recent EA Desktop update.
  • Added support for SteamWorks SDK 1.64.
  • Fixed Steam Overlay not working correctly with many EA games.
  • Improved emoji support in Idle Trillionaire.
  • Fixed intro video playback in Crimson Desert.
  • Fixed Rei and the Floating City not being playable with gamescope.
  • Fixed mouse movement behavior in Call of Duty 2.
  • Fixed rendering issue in launcher of DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH.
  • Fixed a crash in HELLDIVERS 2 happening in high enemy-count missions.
  • Fixed random hangs in Killer Inn.
  • Fixed Killer Inn not launching on Steam Decks and other machines with /tmp sizes lower than 10GB.
  • Fixed Killer Inn not being able to connect to Square Enix account.
  • Fixed graphical gliches in Duck Game that happen with newer Wine Mono versions.
  • Fixed REDLauncher (e.g. as seen with Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3) taking a long time to exit.
  • Fixed Hollow Knight wrongly registering Steam Deck's Steam button as a left trigger after a game update.
  • Fixed controller hotplug not working for 8BitDo Ultimate 2C and other controllers that expose multiple HID devices.
  • Fixed Xalia intermittently failing to start when game is launched.
  • Improved timezone detection.
  • Fixed video playback in 我打不过漂亮的她们.
  • Fixed lag spikes caused by Steam overlay being opened for prolonged time.
  • Fixed VR controller tracking in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
  • Improved VR support so that No Man's Sky VR mode is playable again.
  • Fixed black blocks in dialog windows created by ARC Raiders and The Finals.
  • Fixed glitchy video playback in Satisfactory.
  • Fixed Rec Room not being playable after a recent game update.
  • Fixed THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII GLOBAL MATCH freezing when playing videos from the gallery.
  • Fixed intro video not looping in Blazblue Centralfiction.
  • Made more games using MonoGame playable.
  • Improved support for Kodi media player.
  • Added System Voice support for multiple languages in Phasmophobia.
  • Fixed KDE window maximization support.
  • Fixed Brighter Shores window resizing support.
  • Improved Space Engineers dual monitor support
  • Fixed scaling issue with Arma Reforger when changing window modes.
  • Fixed Dungeon Siege tools showing up at character's feet.
  • Improved focus loss behavior with RoBoRumble.
  • Fixed rendering issue in Hellsinker. launcher.
  • Fixed stutter from keyboard input in Titanfall 2.
  • Fixed audio playback when playing intro videos in BIRDCAGE.
  • Fixed hang after METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version end credits.
  • Fixed Disintegration getting stuck on the first loading screen.
  • Fixed CHRONO TRIGGER flickering in windowed mode with certain resolutions when using Gamescope.
  • RAGE no longer has focus issues when Alt-Tabbing on KDE Wayland.
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (2009) no longer has problems minimizing after Alt-Tabbing.
  • Resident Evil 2 should no longer have issues when changing resolutions on GNOME.
  • Call of Duty: WWII should no longer fail to render properly in fullscreen native resolution on setups with dual monitors.
  • Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition no longer has issues with keyboard registration after refocusing the game.
  • Fixed Far Cry 4 randomly hanging during launch.
  • Updated Xalia to 0.4.9:
    • Fixed lockups happening when interacting with the EA App.
    • Added controller support for the MC Visual C++ 2010 redistributable installer.
    • Improved gamepad binding support for Graze Counter.
    • Added controller support for launchers of the following games: Red Faction®: Armageddon™, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II, Hellsinker., Disney Bolt, STAR WARS™ Starfighter™, Rocket Knight, Puddle, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, Metal Slug XX, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition, Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY, LocoCycle, Ys SEVEN, Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999), Dino Crisis, Dino Crisis 2.
    • Fixed Xalia wrongly selecting option from unfocused tabs in Rayman: Raving Rabbids.
    • Added controller support for DirectX Runtime Components installer when launching BioShock for the first time.
  • Rebased on top of Wine 11.0.
  • Added FEX-2605 for ARM64EC builds.
  • Updated vkd3d to vkd3d-1.19-139-g30b93dcea8b0.
  • Updated dxvk to v2.7.1-467-g83e503b4ae6d from Proton 11 support branch.
  • Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.9.1.
  • Updated Wine Mono to 11.0.0.
  • Updated vkd3d-proton to proton-20260410

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Noah Kupetsky
A lover of gaming since 4, Noah has grown up with a love and passion for the industry. From there, he started to travel a lot and develop a joy for handheld and PC gaming. When the Steam Deck released, it just all clicked.
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