6 stories tagged Proton
A bug-fix release for DXVK, the Direct3D-to-Vulkan layer behind Proton, cleans up rendering regressions in Black Mesa, Gothic 3, and GTA IV, plus a shader bug that broke MSAA in Fallout 3 — all without waiting on a full Proton update.
After five beta builds, Valve shipped Proton 11.0-1 to stable on July 7, rebasing on Wine 11.0 and moving over a dozen games — including the original Resident Evil and Dino Crisis — out of Experimental for good.
Two days after Diablo IV's Season 14 update broke Proton compatibility, Valve quietly shipped a Proton Hotfix that gets the game working again on Steam Deck and SteamOS — while Blizzard's own promised patch still hasn't landed.
Ubisoft's remake of the 2013 pirate classic ships with a Steam Deck Verified badge on day one, plus ray tracing, dynamic weather, and full Steam feature support.
Valve quietly built AMD's FSR 4.1.1 upscaler into Proton Experimental, auto-upgrading any FSR 3.1 game on RDNA 3 hardware — including the Steam Machine's GPU, in the same week the console started shipping.
Diablo IV's Season of Death Awakening launched on July 1 and immediately broke Proton compatibility — the game quits a few seconds after launch on Steam Deck and SteamOS. Blizzard's first emergency patch didn't fix it, and a second attempt is coming.