Proton Experimental gets a big change for video playback in games on Steam Deck / Linux

Valve launched a brand new replace to Proton Experimental with a giant change for the way they deal with video playback, and hopefully give a pleasant compatibility enhance for Home windows video games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

The replace launched at this time, October twenty third, has a changelog that notes fastened or improved video playback for:

• Gal*Gun 2
• SOULCALIBUR VI
• Name of Cthulhu
• All-Star Fruit Racing
• Greedfall
• Onimusha: Warlords
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Evening
• Indigo Park: Chapter 1
• Agony Unrated
• TELEFORUM

Pictured – Name of Cthulhu

Within the linked GitHub issue developer Arek Hiler talked about:

Residing true to its identify Proton Experimental will function a car to roll out and take a look at a brand new implementation of media supply. Whereas it improves video playback in lots of video games and allows us to repair much more issues sooner or later, the change is substantial and should trigger regressions.

We have accomplished in depth inside testing and made the modifications obtainable by way of the bleeding-edge beta department already. Now it is time to push this experiment even additional – into the default Proton Experimental.

In case of regressions in video playback please report them right here.
There is a beta department named old-media-source (choose Proton Experimental in you Steam Library -> cog icon -> Properties -> Betas -> and choose the department from the beta participation drop-down).

If you happen to face any points please be sure that they aren’t current with old-media-source earlier than reporting them right here.

Whereas the above checklist notes improved video games, there’s additionally some video games with recognized points proper now with it:

• Resident Evil 7 movies fail to play.
• Resident Evil Village movies fail to play.
• Quantum Break movies have inexperienced flashes and intermittent crashes.
• Shin Megami Tensei III has intermittent video playback failure.

It is modifications like this that is why I at all times advise you to stay to the primary variations of Proton, the most recent being Proton 9, except you particularly want Proton Experimental – as it will probably include breakage.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.