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Hotfix release: GE-Proton11-9 Video Playback Added a fix for Crimson Desert getting stuck after selecting Play or starting a new game due to looping menu-video playback. Affects both Wine-Wayland ...

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Hotfix release:

GE-Proton11-9

Video Playback

  • Added a fix for Crimson Desert getting stuck after selecting Play or starting a new game due to

looping menu-video playback. Affects both Wine-Wayland and XWayland.

Rendering and HDR

  • Added automatic HDR detection for DX11/DXVK and DX12/VKD3D-Proton with Wine-Wayland or Gamescope.

  • PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 and PROTON_USE_HDR=1 are no longer required. HDR must still be enabled in

the desktop or Gamescope.

  • Corrected a Wine-Wayland detection regression that incorrectly reported HDR displays as SDR,

affecting Dragon’s Dogma 2 and other games on compositors without optional Windows-specific color-

management extensions.

  • Preserved SDR fallback when HDR is unavailable or disabled.

  • Retained legacy HDR overrides. Use DXVK_NO_HDR=1 to disable HDR reporting.

  • Updated the README with automatic HDR setup instructions.

Pre-hotfix changelog:

GE-Proton11-8

Changes since GE-Proton11-7.

Component Updates

  • Updated Wine bleeding-edge, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, VKD3D, D7VK, DXVK-NVAPI, DXVK-IGDext, FEX,

lsteamclient, wineopenxr and protonfixes.

  • Rebased the downstream patch stack and removed patches superseded upstream.

Controllers

  • Added automatic PlayStation-to-XInput fallback when Steam Input is disabled, including

appropriate controller identity and button origins for supported games. Native controller

handling and real Steam Input take priority.

  • Removed most (now obsolete) game-specific Sony fallback overrides; improved compatibility with Grandia I/

II, Lunar, Sky, God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Zero Dawn.

  • Fixed Diablo IV’s startup DualSense detection and added DualSense Edge compatibility.

  • Fixed Castlevania Anniversary Collection controller replacement and late connection.

  • Improved DS4 speaker audio, Sony controller hotplugging, Death Stranding speaker switching

and Monster Hunter Wilds haptics. Addressed audio initialization races and expensive

controller polling.

  • Added Switch Pro/compatible controller XInput support and corrected Dynasty Warriors 8

DualSense mappings.

Steam Overlay

  • Fixed Guide-button overlay not closing under Wine-Wayland, including Labwc and Warframe.

  • Improved overlay cursor ownership and visibility; fixed a Wine-Wayland clipboard-related

World of Warcraft crash.

Wayland and Windowing

  • Fixed fullscreen Alt+Tab restoration in Guild Wars Reforged

  • Fixed startup/minimize recovery for Deadlock on Niri. Added cross-driver suppression of the

transient minimized-window white rectangle. (#781, [#762]

(https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/issues/762))

  • Improved Battle.net tray-menu rendering, positioning, keyboard focus, cursor handling and

tray recovery.

  • Fixed Warframe’s missing launcher settings dialog and disappearing cursor.

  • Fixed Touhou 11’s unwanted fixed-window resizing

  • Fixed Zenless Zone Zero launcher window being mistaken for a tray menu.

  • Improved GNOME direct-scanout compatibility, Vulkan surface opacity metadata and cursor

confinement updates.

  • Preserved Assassin’s Creed DX10 fullscreen mode across Alt+Tab.

Video Playback

  • Improved VRChat YouTube, HTTP MP4, HLS, MPEG-TS and RTSP playback, including URL

compatibility, playlists, seeking, pause/resume, audio synchronization and periodic

streaming stalls.

issues/775), #787)

  • Added playback fixes for Borderlands 3, Saku Saku, Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force,

SHUFFLE! Essence+, Hatsumira, Colin McRae Rally 3 and One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4.

  • Fixed interrupted music in T4C Neerya and an audio-sample memory leak affecting Apple

Jack.

  • Fixed Way of the Samurai 4 movie-skipping crashes.

  • Improved King of Fighters XIII and Taito Type X2 movie compatibility, added DirectDraw

video-overlay emulation, and fixed a seeking deadlock affecting SNK Heroines.

Rendering and HDR

GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/issues/790))

  • Fixed Meridian: New World’s dark lighting and scrolling flicker through Wine-Mono/FNA

stencil-state fixes.

  • Fixed Le Mans Ultimate initialization and HUD/text rendering through Direct2D

improvements. (#777)

  • Enabled Warframe’s DX11 HDR detection and added SDR fallback when HDR is requested but

unavailable on the output.

Protonfixes

  • Project Torque: corrected .NET dependencies and disabled Xalia to prevent startup

problems.

  • The Witcher 3: hid Wine exports to restore graphics features disabled by the game’s Wine

detection.

  • Added or updated fixes for A Way Out, Way of the Samurai 4, Ceville, Kanvas Launcher and

the original Call of Duty’s non-Steam release.

  • Updated the UMU database and fixed the unzip dependency URL.

Other Changes

  • Added opt-in Bluetooth LE support for applications such as Zwift and Rouvy using

PROTON_ENABLE_WINEBTH=1.

  • Fixed unsafe timing-source selection, process-exit hangs, Richard Burns Rally’s exit

crash, and serial-port probing that disrupted Sinden lightguns.

  • Added SHA-256 certificate-property support for MTA and corrected incomplete TLS-record

handling.

  • Restored ARM64 DXVK-NVAPI builds, enabled FEX disk caching by default, and updated

upstream game/launcher compatibility fixes.

  • Expanded controller documentation and replaced obsolete RDNA3-specific FSR4 guidance with

PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE.

    • Unfold1127@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      Ya this is a huge deal for a line item in a patch notes. HDR being (relatively) simple was the only thing really making me miss Windows as an Nvidia user.

      • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        Besides some compatbility misses, it’s less confusing than Windows is with AutoHDR too now I think. Combined with KDE adding more HDR spec stuff in 6.8, pretty solid experience on Linux at this point. mpv HDR is working with version 0.41.

        I just want Firefox HDR now.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    Just reassure me that, when I get time to play wow again, it’ll work on my nobara44 setup? Bonus if somehow the bnet vchat works too.

    • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Faugus Launcher has built in one-click BNet installer support. Then you run BNet via Faugus. Voice chat is janky/outright broken last I checked, sorry.

      Never tried Retail however, I play on private servers for where I also use Faugus Launcher…which is a nice GUI for UMU-Launcher which is a thing used to run non-Steam games with Proton properly, very basically. From what I hear, playing legit Retail/Forever/Classic all work fine?

      Long explanation is UMU is taking advantage of Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime containerisation for non-Steam in the same way Steam does and also gets you access to protonfixes: a shared online database of per-game patches (DXVK options, DLL overrides, env vars, etc.) applied automatically via unified game IDs that Heroic, Lutris, and Bottles also use.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        I think my hokey setup is a lutris, but honestly I’m too new at being on a Linux desktop again - having avoided it from 95-2026 - that the wine launcher 'scape is magical and mystical. So I may be on steam as an external app.

        I think I need someone to hold my hand, tell me what they did to get Bnet vChat and wow on nobara, and let me paint by those numbers.

        (Nobara/fedora has been a great experience compared to 1995, for sure, but my gaming time is increasingly taken up by futzing with the gaming in the hopes of playing instead of playing, and I’d love to just skip the lanpartyism of it all and get to the mindless questy brain candy part)

        • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          Blizzard’s voice chat is broken under Proton/WINE, it doesn’t matter what front end or method you use. It’s not specific to Faugus. Be nice if Blizzard cared but they don’t.

          Edit: Check this out, not merged yet but fresh fixes for BNet via Bottles soon ™. Couldn’t tell you if this will be superior to Faugus method or not since I don’t use Battle.net.

          https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/pull/504

          but my gaming time is increasingly taken up by futzing with the gaming in the hopes of playing instead of playing,

          You can’t skip the learning curve, sorry. It was hard to wrap my head around compatibility layer quirks and prefixes at first but now I’m proficient a year later using CachyOS as a daily driver and I’m even modding games again, usually via Amethyst Mod Manager and CurseForge. Once you understand Linux folder structures it gets easier.

          I tried Nobara early on but the perf differences between it and most popular distros is negligible despite the hype and then a bad update bricked my install, so I don’t have a positive impression of Glorious Eggroll’s side project. Solo dev distro isn’t viable IMO.

          Some people online say adding sapi.dll to your BNet prefix via winetricks works but it’s mixed results. May or may not work. Ehhh find a guide for using winetricks. It’s a clunky piece of shit, not gonna lie. It’s “GUI” barely masks that it’s a command line utility. Like usually I need to click CANCEL on the first menu it pops up which is usually fucking useless in order for the menu I actually want to appear next, but it’s unintuitive because a beginner is going to obviously think that closes Winetricks. Nope! Very dumb. It’s easy to access via Faugus since it’s an option in the settings menu when you right click any game you’ve added to it. You’ll need to learn how eventually if you ever pirate stuff because dependencies like .net or visual c++ will be missing without manually installing them via winetricks. Winetricks downloads/installs that shit for you btw you don’t need to hunt down the Windows executables yourself or sapi.dll in this case. Although you can run other executables under the game’s prefix, again, in the same settings menu where you’ll find winetricks button in Faugus.

          If you’re wondering wtf a prefix is, it’s basically a Windows folder structure in a folder specific to that game. Your AppData/My Documents whatever. Your save files and config files go there like they would on Windows, but also dll files and other Windows specific crap. Which annoys me actually so I use the same prefix for every non-Steam game so I don’t need to piss about with multiple prefixes and installing storage space wasting duplicate dependencies and fresh prefixes per game. It’s pretty stupid default behaviour IMO but it probably helps devs troubleshoot compatibility layer bug reports when users don’t have 40 games all using the same prefix folder idk…I just point Faugus to the same prefix folder I made every time instead of letting it make a new one per game.

          Steam doesn’t give you any option regarding that so it just makes a user unfriendly folder per game using the Steam ID jumble of numbers (which you can find via SteamDB, although I just sort by recently modified after installing a game if I need to snoop in there for some reason) as the folder name for game prefix folders in Steam’s compatdata folder. Really pisses me off they don’t just use the fucking name of the game same as it is in steamapps/common where all the games are installed by default or let me use the same prefix as an option within Steam /rant.

          The actual game files aren’t inside the prefix folder.

          Also when you run Windows stuff via Proton/WINE and need to browse to a location outside of the prefix, your Linux home folder is labeled as Drive X. Like say I run something that patches the game executable for a mod or whatever, but my game folder isn’t inside the prefix obviously so your actual Linux storage drive is given the drive letter “X” by Proton/WINE while the Windows program thinks the prefix folder is your C: drive / Local Disk. If that makes sense.

          Idk hopefully that helps or I confused you more lol?