Valve has released Proton 10.0-4, a specialized version of Wine designed and tuned for gaming that allows you to play Windows titles on Linux through Steam, resolving regressions introduced earlier in the Proton 10 series.
A number of games are now confirmed playable without relying on Proton Experimental. New titles include Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality, Changeling VR, Summoners War: RUSH, Quantum Threshold, Fellowship, Metal Slug: Awakening, Zero Caliber 2 Remastered, Girls’ Frontline, Distant Worlds 2, Chronology, and several others, spanning VR, strategy, action, and mobile-derived games.
The release also delivers fixes for many high-profile titles. Far Cry 5 no longer displays outdated GPU driver warnings on AMD hardware, while Age of Empires IV Anniversary Edition sees the same issue resolved on Intel GPUs. HDR functionality has been fixed for Far Cry 5 on OLED Steam Deck models, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows received multiple corrections, including crashes after recent updates and incorrect warnings about HDD installations.
Several Xbox Game Studios titles, such as Avowed, Grounded 2, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and The Outer Worlds 2, now launch significantly faster thanks to the removal of a long startup delay.
Regarding stability improvements, crashes have been fixed in Crystal of Atlan, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, Lemma, Sword of the Stars: The Pit, and Killer Instinct. Proton 10.0-4 also resolves issues specific to Gamescope, including display failures, broken account switching, and unresponsive dialogs in several titles.
On the audio, video, and input handling side, the update fixes music playback in Transcendence and Rocket Jockey, restores video playback in multiple games, and corrects 7.1 audio channel mapping in titles such as Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Input-related fixes include corrected mouse scroll behavior, improved text input in Secrets of Grindea, and restored camera panning in Dungeons & Dragons Online.
Controller support continues to improve, with better compatibility for Sony controllers in Tekken 8 and fixed DualSense haptics that now work in most supported games. Additional fixes target For Honor, restoring proper startup behavior and store functionality on desktop Linux systems.
Proton 10.0-4 also resolves several regressions introduced earlier in the Proton 10 cycle. Video playback is working again in King of Bones and Indivisible, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is playable once more, CHRONO TRIGGER no longer flickers in fullscreen mode, and Workshop integration has been restored for The Conquest of Go.
Finally, under the hood, the release updates several core components. Support for SteamWorks SDK 1.63 has been added, Wine Mono has been updated to version 10.4.1, vkd3d-proton has been bumped to v3.0b, and vkd3d itself has been updated to version 1.18.
For more information, see the changelog.
I Proton game the same company as Proton mail?
No. They have nothing to do with each other. It’s just a coincidence in names.