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A new Proton Experimental update was released not too long ago with some great fixes for many games. We got all the new changes that came from the Proton 10.0-1 Beta, as well as some regressions for VRChat and Imperiums: Greek Wars. We also have fixes for Oblivion Remastered, Marvel Rivals, Ghostbusters, Space Engineers, and making Star Ocean The Divine Force and Champions of Anteria playable.
The new Proton Experimental update should automatically download if you already have the experimental layer. If not, just search for Proton Experimental in the Steam store on your Steam Deck and download.
Proton Experimental 5/1/25 Update Changelog:
- All changes from Proton 10.0-1.
- Now playable: Stardust Skate, STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE, Champions of Anteria.
- Fixed transfer account option in The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden.
- Fixed querying graphics settings in Marvel Rivals.
- Mitigated OpenSSL-related issues with Claybook, Gravel, SMITE that happen on newer Intel CPUs.
- Fixed The Elden Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered sometimes wrongly claiming that it's not installed on an SSD.
- Fixed Jusant crashing with Intel GPUs.
- Fixed Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered showing green line at the bottom of video in the main menu.
- Fixed Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier beginning of the game being a black screen.
- Fixed Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced showing driver version warning with AMD GPUs.
- Fixed Space Engineers not registering trigger input with controllers.
- Fixed controller support in MySims Kingdom.
- Fixed touch input not working correctly in menus of No Man's Sky.
- Fixed Defiance failing to connect.
- Fixed the new Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher not working.
- Fixed Proton 10 regressions:
- Fixed scaling in Imperiums: Greek Wars in fullscreen mode.
- Fixed VRChat crashing on some setups when h264 playback is attempted.
- Update Wine-Mono to 10.0.0.
- Update Xalia to 0.4.6.
- Updated dxvk, dxvk-nvapi and vkd3d-proton and vkd3d-shader to include the latest development work.
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