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

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

New Deck client is out for Beta and Preview users. This fixes the reboot loop that could occur when failing to update a broken Steam install (could this perhaps fix the “brick” situation that I had described last weekend?). The New Big Picture Mode got some improvements as well – Steam controller dongle pairing is now possible, and controllers can be turned off when exiting BPM. As far as Steam Input, the ThrustMaster eSwap PRO Xbox controller has been added, and the long delay when connecting Razer keyboards should no longer be present.

Small but important update out for both stable and preview branches on the Deck. SteamOS 3.4.4 (stable) fixes an update loop that could occur when doing a factory reset. 3.4.5 (preview) – in addition to adding the update loop fix – also fixes a focus issue with Forza Horizon 5.

Small update for Cemu – the Nintendo Wii U emulator that went open-source a few months ago – is now out. Changes include: CMake find module for Wayland added to Linux version, Wayland is now optional optimized timer code for MacOS fix “c” showing up in account list for saves better motion support for supported controllers with the AppImage See the commit history since December 13th to see more info.

Couch-oriented gaming distro ChimeraOS gets an update for the month of December, just before the new year. Highlights include: improved Intel GPU driver support for the Deck UI – useful on handhelds that use Intel-based processors screen orientation and resolution fixes for AOKZOE A1 and OneXPlayer Mini Pro improved support for external NTFS drives bug fixes for AppImages and SD card auto-mounting on boot controller support for GPD Win Max 2, OXP Mini Pro, Anbernic Win600, AOKZOE A1 “Format SD Card” button in Deck UI should now work See the patch notes on GitHub.