I’m noticing a trend where each new release of Proton adds several new games and bug fixes. Shortly following the update to Proton Experimental earlier today, we now have the official release of Proton 7.0-3. Newly playable titles with this release include:

  • Age of Chivalry
  • Beneath a Steel Sky
  • Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition
  • Cities XXL
  • Cladun X2
  • Cursed Armor
  • Flanarion Tactics
  • Gary Grigsby’s War in the East
  • Gary Grigsby’s War in the West
  • Iragon: Prologue
  • MechWarrior Online
  • Small Radios Big Televisions
  • Split/Second
  • Star Wars Episode I Racer
  • Stranger of Sword City Revisited
  • Succubus x Saint
  • V Rising
  • Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
  • We Were Here Forever

Bug fixes include:

  • Fix Elden Ring crashing during prolonged gameplay.
  • Fix the new Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher.
  • Fix DEATHLOOP crashing after long system suspend.
  • Fix The Turing Test crashing when starting Chapter 4.
  • Fix controller support in Mini Ninja.
  • Fix Resident Evil Revelations 2 not starting on the Steam Deck.
  • Fix video playback in: Disintegration, Dread X Collection: The Hunt, EZ2ON REBOOT : R, El Hijo - A Wild West Tale, Ember Knights, Outward: Definitive Edition, POSTAL4: No Regerts, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, Street Fighter V, The Room 4: Old Sins. Fix video playback in Ghostwire: Tokyo and other games using VP8 and VP9 codecs.
  • Fix non-steering-wheel controller support in WRC10.
  • Fix S&box not finding any games to join.
  • Fix The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Kai failing to start for the first time.
  • Fix Mortal Kombat Komplete crashing when audio devices with long names are present.
  • Fix handling of external links in Castle Morihisa.

Windows.Gaming.Input is now supported. Text rendering in the Rockstar Launcher has been improved. There’s better steering wheel detection, improved FPS in online matches in Street Fighter V, xinput re-ordering support on the Deck, and performance has been improved in Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice.

In addition to all of this, the following software packages have been upgraded:

  • Wine Mono to 7.3.0 (contains several bug fixes and an upgrade to FNA)
  • dxvk-nvapi to 0.5.4 (minor bug fix)
  • dxvk to 1.10.1-57-g279b4b7e

See the patch notes on GitHub. An update should be available in your Steam library for Proton 7.0.

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