Proton Experimental update is all bug fixes. Except one, which is an improvement in regards to CJK characters rendering “in many games.” No new compatilble titles with this update. Patch notes are as follows: fix A Plague Tale: Innocence showing on-screen keyboard when starting the game on the Steam Deck. fix rendering issues during cutscenes in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. fix Japanese keyboard input in Final Fantasy XIV Online. fix Football Manager 2023 crashing when trying to return from a player profile.

New client update out for beta and preview users. Supposedly changing download regions no longer requires a restart, but they still do, based on my testing. A rollup of gifts received has been added to the Quick Access Menu under notifications. Steam Input, desktop Linux, and the virtual keyboard got some fixes as well. Full patch notes are as follows. General Changing download regions no longer requires restarting the Steam client Add a rollup of gifts received in the Quick Access > Notifications area Steam Input

Looks like we got The Talos Principle running on NVK!

System76’s Pop!_OS distribution now enables ZRAM. This is thanks to Pop!_OS developer Michael Murphy. Per the Tweet from the official Pop!_OS account, this will increase “the amount of free memory your system has available.” Supposedly this adds “increased FPS in games, or faster simulations and compiler runs,” especially on systems with a low amount of RAM. Someone on the pull request commented that on a PC with 8 GB RAM, the result of ZRAM enablement was “a solid boost from sometimes 80 FPS to 120 FPS (my refresh rate) and other times from 80 FPS to 90 FPS.

Steam data miner and SteamDB founder Pavel Djundik discovered way back in October peer-to-peer Steam downloads on the local area network. Image credit: @thexpaw Then, just this past Friday, Pavel found a string in the last Steam update: This feature allows your PC to transfer game files to and from other PCs or Steam Decks on your local network, reducing your Internet traffic while downloading or updating a game. According to his Tweet, this “can limit to own devices, friends, or any user.

Vanilla OS, per the description on the official website, is “an Ubuntu Linux-based Point Release distribution that receives updates at the right time, neither before nor after, without sacrificing security and functionality.” It’s “your faithful colleague by day” and “your teammate by night.” The developer, Mirko Brombin, is also the developer of the Bottles application. It uses GNOME as the desktop environment – “a stock, clean version with as few changes as possible” – and as far as the gaming aspect is concerned, you don’t need to worry “about setting up your devices.

Fedora fork Nobara Project kicks off the new year by releasing version 37. Packages have been rebased on top of Fedora 37. Nobara 37 is mostly concerned with package updates: kernel updated to 6.0.16, all previous patches included, gamescope HDR patches added glibc updated to 2.36 (still includes all previous fixes) gamescope updated to latest git mangohud updated to 0.6.8 goverlay updated to 0.9.1 – this contains a fix for the “interface scaling problem” on HiDPI displays blender updated to 3.

Wine 8.0-rc3 is now up. A total of 28 bugs were fixed. Gaming-related fixes include: AirBuccaneers hangs on exit Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night freeze at whitescreen Can’t aim in Overwatch after alt-tabbing World of Warcraft Classic: Mouse movement can block keydown events from registering Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth crashes after start winegstreamer “flush” removal breaks radio in Fallout 3 Max Payne: mouse scroll behaves erratically Bully: Scholarship Edition hangs on loading screen and doesn’t play intros Sacred Gold (GOG): missing audio in .

The day Proton Experimental got updated, was also the day Proton 7.0-6 graduated from release candidate to Proton Next. The changes are almost exactly the same as the release candidate. As a reminder, playable titles include: Gotham Knights UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection Wargame: Red Dragon Heroes of the Dark Super Arcade Racing Crazy Machines 3 NinNinDays2 雀姬 (Mahjong ladies) Bug fixes are as follows: fix Microsoft Flight Simulator: crashing during longer flights not displaying live traffic not starting after a recent game update crashing when starting next to big cities fix being unable to log in to Xbox Live from Main Menu in As Dusk Falls fix Septerra Core hanging on redistributables installation fix Super House of Dead Ninjas, Enemy Mind, and Out There Somewhere frame hitching every few seconds fix on-screen keyboard popping up every time when starting A Plague Tale: Requiem on the Steam Deck fix Zeepkist freezing when using controller fix Overcooked!

Pretty interesting update to Proton Experimental. Today’s update adds compatibility with Gungrave G.O.R.E. Force feedback compatibility has been improved with BeamNG and Forza Horizon 5. As far as bug fixes go, Alt+Tabbing should no longer present any issues for those of you using GNOME 43 or later. Also, Life is Strange Remastered should no longer crash after chapter 2. See the patch notes on GitHub. Cover image credit: Iggymob Co., Ltd/Prime Matter