Valve releases Proton 11 with Wine 11 base and new Linux game compatibility

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As a special treat to me personally, Valve has released a new version of its Proton compatibility layer—the special sauce that lets Windows games run on Linux platforms like the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and your desktop if you're cool. Proton 11 is out now, freshly rebased on Wine 11 , and accessible to Linux users via the compatibility tab in your Steam settings, or on a per-game basis via the compatibility tab in your games' individual Steam settings pages.

This is the Proton version that went into beta last April, bringing support for Deadly Premonition (a personal all-timer) to Linux among a raft of other fixes. Now it's out for real , with all manner of tweaks and patches and updates, the most important of which for me is "Fixed KDE window maximization support." I kept having issues with that on my desktop, which is hooked up to my TV.

Anyway, the complete list of now-playable games is a real hodgepodge, ranging from 1996's Resident Evil (which only hit Steam in April, explaining Valve's 2026 concern for it) to Metal Gear Survive, of all things. You can find a full list of supported games in the patch notes below.

I'm always a little surprised to hear of games 'getting support' in Proton, simply because my own experience with it has been everything I want to play, unless it is an only-came-out-today release, just works. But I imagine the work of ensuring true and universal compatibility across the entire stable of Windows games is never actually, truly finished.

Anyway, the headline item is that playing games on Linux is somehow even cooler today than it was yesterday (which was very cool, all the kids agree). Here are the full patch notes for Proton 11.

Proton 11.0-1 Patch notes

Now playable (previously worked with Proton Experimental): Universe Generator: The Golden Sword

DCS World Steam Edition

Resident Evil (1996)

Resident Evil 2 (1998)

Dino Crisis

Dino Crisis 2

From Dust

Blaite

Don't Die Dateless, Dummy!

METAL GEAR SURVIVE

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Metal Fatigue

SHOGUN: Total War

Newly playable: Unknown Faces

Gothic 1 Classic

X-Plane 12

Breath of Fire IV

Deadly Premonition

Fixed video playback in She Sees Red.

Fixed rendering of certain symbols with Ukranian language option in Chambers.

Fixed voice chat in Phasmophobia lobby for desktop players.

Improved rendering of Rockstar Launcher popups.

Fixed Sea of Solitude showing black screen on Proton.

Fixed many EA games being unplayable after a recent EA Desktop update.

Added support for SteamWorks SDK 1.64.

Fixed Steam Overlay not working correctly with many EA games.

Improved emoji support in Idle Trillionaire.

Fixed intro video playback in Crimson Desert.

Fixed Rei and the Floating City not being playable with gamescope.

Fixed mouse movement behavior in Call of Duty 2.

Fixed rendering issue in launcher of DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH.

Fixed a crash in HELLDIVERS 2 happening in high enemy-count missions.

Fixed random hangs in Killer Inn.

Fixed Killer Inn not launching on Steam Decks and other machines with /tmp sizes lower than 10GB.

Fixed Killer Inn not being able to connect to Square Enix account.

Fixed graphical gliches in Duck Game that happen with newer Wine Mono versions.

Fixed REDLauncher (e.g. as seen with Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3) taking a long time to exit.

Fixed Hollow Knight wrongly registering Steam Deck's Steam button as a left trigger after a game update.

Fixed controller hotplug not working for 8BitDo Ultimate 2C and other controllers that expose multiple HID devices.

Fixed Xalia intermittently failing to start when game is launched.

Improved timezone detection.

Fixed video playback in 我打不过漂亮的她们.

Fixed lag spikes caused by Steam overlay being opened for prolonged time.

Fixed VR controller tracking in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Improved VR support so that No Man's Sky VR mode is playable again.

Fixed black blocks in dialog windows created by ARC Raiders and The Finals.

Fixed glitchy video playback in Satisfactory.

Fixed Rec Room not being playable after a recent game update.

Fixed THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII GLOBAL MATCH freezing when playing videos from the gallery.

Fixed intro video not looping in Blazblue Centralfiction.

Made more games using MonoGame playable.

Improved support for Kodi media player.

Added System Voice support for multiple languages in Phasmophobia.

Fixed KDE window maximization support.

Fixed Brighter Shores window resizing support.

Improved Space Engineers dual monitor support

Fixed scaling issue with Arma Reforger when changing window modes.

Fixed Dungeon Siege tools showing up at character's feet.

Improved focus loss behavior with RoBoRumble.

Fixed rendering issue in Hellsinker. launcher.

Fixed stutter from keyboard input in Titanfall 2.

Fixed audio playback when playing intro videos in BIRDCAGE.

Fixed hang after METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version end credits.

Fixed Disintegration getting stuck on the first loading screen.

Fixed CHRONO TRIGGER flickering in windowed mode with certain resolutions when using Gamescope.

RAGE no longer has focus issues when Alt-Tabbing on KDE Wayland.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (2009) no longer has problems minimizing after Alt-Tabbing.

Resident Evil 2 should no longer have issues when changing resolutions on GNOME.

Call of Duty: WWII should no longer fail to render properly in fullscreen native resolution on setups with dual monitors.

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition no longer has issues with keyboard registration after refocusing the game.

Fixed Far Cry 4 randomly hanging during launch.

Updated Xalia to 0.4.9: Fixed lockups happening when interacting with the EA App.

Added controller support for the MC Visual C++ 2010 redistributable installer.

Improved gamepad binding support for Graze Counter.

Added controller support for launchers of the following games: Red Faction®: Armageddon™, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II, Hellsinker., Disney Bolt, STAR WARS™ Starfighter™, Rocket Knight, Puddle, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, Metal Slug XX, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition, Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY, LocoCycle, Ys SEVEN, Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999), Dino Crisis, Dino Crisis 2.

Fixed Xalia wrongly selecting option from unfocused tabs in Rayman: Raving Rabbids.

Added controller support for DirectX Runtime Components installer when launching BioShock for the first time.

Rebased on top of Wine 11.0.

Added FEX-2605 for ARM64EC builds.

Updated vkd3d to vkd3d-1.19-139-g30b93dcea8b0.

Updated dxvk to v2.7.1-467-g83e503b4ae6d from Proton 11 support branch.

Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.9.1.

Updated Wine Mono to 11.0.0.

Updated vkd3d-proton to proton-20260410

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