Proton GE 8-26/8-27 The Forest

Earlier today, two new Proton GE updates dropped that implemented a plethora of nice fixes and updates. Proton GE 8-26 updated all the components to their latest, as well as some fixes for The Forest, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Renegade Ops, and BlazBlue Centralfiction. There were also some unified fixes for esync and fsync enable/disable, live, and more.

Proton GE 8-27 is a small hotfix, but one that takes out the Nvidia Latency Reflex patches. These could have caused some stuttering in games, so after GloriousEggroll, the creator of this fork of Proton, discussed it with the DXVK developers, he decided to take them out. It also fixed the Farlight 84 patch that was implemented previously and got it working.

For those who don't know about Proton GE, how to get it on the Steam Deck, or how to update, check out our Proton GE guide! We go over all of this and explain why having GE is important.

Proton GE 8-26 Update Changelog:

  • updated wine to bleeding edge
  • updated dxvk to git
  • updated vkd3d-proton to git
  • updated dxvk-nvapi to latest upstream proton
  • pulled in latest upstream proton bleeding edge changes
  • added farlight 84 patch update
  • VR fix for Beam.NG.Drive added (#106 thanks gamingdoom)
  • NVIDIA Reflex implemented (#104 thanks loathingKernel)

protonfixes:

  • unified fix for cpu topology workaround (GloriousEggroll/protonfixes#167 thanks Root-Core)
  • unified fix for protonaudioconv workaround (GloriousEggroll/protonfixes#168 thanks R1kaB3rN)
  • unified fix for xliveless xlive workaround added (GloriousEggroll/protonfixes#170 thanks Root-Core)
  • unified fix for esync/fsync enable/disable added (GloriousEggroll/protonfixes#169 thanks R1kaB3rN)
  • cutscene audio in BlazBlue Centralfiction workaround added (thanks spifferoo)
  • game fix added for Renegade Ops (thanks Root-Core)
  • cleanup of deprecated LAA, dxvk-async, and win32 helper functions (thanks R1kaB3rN)
  • cutscene audio fix for The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles workaround added (thanks eagleflo)
  • game fix added for The Forest (thanks Root-Core)
  • updated fix for Super Naughty Maid 2 (thanks R1kaB3rN)

Proton GE 8-27 Hotfix Changelog:

HOTFIX:

  • Disabled Nvidia Latency Reflex patches. After discussion with dxvk devs they are currently deemed problematic and need more work, and are known to currently cause stutters in games even when the feature is disabled. We will re-enable the patches when they are ready.
  • Fixed Farlight 84 patch that was missing a lock causing problems in SDL games
  • Backported a fix for HID devices with more than 8 axis https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55660

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Noah Kupetsky
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