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The new version of Proton GE has been released, and there has been a lot of nice updates to the layer. We have the usual component updates for wine, dxvk, and vkd3d, but there is a bit more. We have protonfixes for winetricks, ContractorVR, and the original Resident Evil release on GOG, as well as some upstream changes for the Steam client and VR client. UMU clients can now run winetricks verbs and a pending patch was added for a GTA 5 custom client.

As I was writing this, Proton GE 9-9 was released to fix winetricks not executing, and I recommend downloading that one instead.

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 9-8 Changelog:

  • wine updated to latest bleeding edge
  • dxvk updated to latest git
  • vkd3ed-proton updated to latest git
  • dxvk-nvapi updated to latest git
  • steam client changes pulled in from upstream
  • vrclient changes pulled in from upstream
  • various game quirk fixes pulled in from upstream (Farlight 84, MultiVersus, Bad Mojo Redux, (Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura)
  • umu clients can now run winetricks verbs (Thanks R1kaB3rN)
  • added pending patch for DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM on d2d_wic_render_target_init needed for Alt:V -- GTA V custom client (Thanks S0P4)
  • staging patches rebased (minor)
  • fsr patch rebased (minor)
  • protonfixes: winetricks updated to current git
  • protonfixes: winetricks vcrun2022 sha256 hashes updated for vcrun2022 (Winetricks/winetricks#2235)
  • protonfixes: fix added for Contractors VR (thanks ToRRent1812)
  • protonfixes: fix added for gog: resident evil (thanks ImLinguin and keenanweaver)

Proton GE 9-9 Changelog:

  • When I updated winetricks in 9-8 I forgot to make it executable. This fixes it so winetricks is executable again.

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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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