Valve Introduces Proton Next

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Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned on Twitter that the company has introduced a “new Proton flavor,” which is known as Proton Next. This will be available “whenever there is a new major stable update of Proton to test.” With this new “flavor,” Proton 7.0-5 is now available for testing.

The following titles are now playable with this release:

• Unravel 2
• Airborne Kingdom
• Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull
• Re-Volt
• Aspire: Ina’s Tale
• Battle Realms: Zen Edition
• Deathsmiles II
• Primal Carnage: Extinction
• Pico Park Classic Edition
• Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
• Darkstar One
• Indiana Jones and the Emperor Tomb
• Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

Fixes are as follows:

• Fix Batman: Arkham City GOTY launching in the background on Steam Deck when set to fullscreen.
• Fix Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered displaying dialog about outdated drivers on AMD systems.
• Fix Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) having no audio.
• Fix Return to Monkey Island not reacting to mouse clicks after a recent game update.
• Fix upsidedown videos in VRChat and many other games.
• Fix Call of Duty Black Ops II Zombies and Multiplayer hanging on exit.
• Fix Bail or Jail crashing when opening the Terms of Serivce.
• Improve GTA V situation with not loading textures.
• Fix Red Dead Redemption 2 crashing after a recent game update.
• Fix Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher functionality after game update.
• Fix cutscene stutter in Disgaea 5.
• Fix Thrustmaster HOTAS having non-functional dial in Elite Dangerous.
• Fix Planet Zoo randomly crashing.
• Fix SCP: Secret Labratory not being playable after a recent game update (again).
• Fix Tekken 7 crashing at launch.
• Fix Armello hanging on exit.
• Fix Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization freezing after the tutorial.
• Fix Space Engineers intro video not playing correctly.
• Fix Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen videos not playing correctly.

Other:

• Implement network video support for VRChat.
• Update dxvk to v1.10.3-28-ge3daa699.

More or less the same update back when it was a release candidate. The only differences I’m seeing, as far as additions, are:

• Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is playable with this release
• Batman: Arkham City Steam Deck fix has been added to this release
• several game-specific fixes have been added to this release

Things that have been removed include:

• Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and ToGather:Island is not on the playable list
• OpenXR compatibility with Blacktop Hoops is no longer available
• network video support for The Good Life is no longer present

To use Proton Next, it’s now available in the dropdown menu when selecting what Proton version to use for a game, rather than having to select the release-candidate beta.

See the patch notes on GitHub.