A new update for Proton Experimental was released yesterday! This new update makes a couple games playable, including Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD, as well as multiple fixes for different games. This update also includes a fix for the periodic stuttering in Street Fighter 6 when playing offline for longer than 30 minutes on the Steam Deck:
Proton Experimental Update 6/24/23 Changelog:
- Now playable: 21st Century Basketball, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD.
- Fixed an issue with EA Desktop sometimes not launching after an update.
- Fixed scrollbar in Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher.
- Fixed Grounded not being playable on desktop.
- Fixed The Witcher 3 showing the task bar after Alt+Tab on xfce with certain resolutions.
- Fixed Dwarf Fortress SDL2 beta crashing on launch.
- Fixed periodic stuttering in Street Fighter 6 when playing without internet for a longer time.
- Fixed a few Proton 8.0 regressions:
- Debug console in Scrap Mechanic is no longer broken.
- Enabled nvapi for many more games: Atomic Heart, Baldur's Gate 3, Demonologist, Icarus, Layers of Fear, Severed Steel, Showgunners, Strayed Lights, Voidtrain, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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