Component Updates

• Wine: Valve bleeding-edge 2026-10-16. This brings upstream syscall emulation through Syscall User Dispatch and native-syscall handling for EAC (EOS) launchers. Also included: Xalia now shuts down cleanly, fewer spurious X11 mouse movement events, a Witcher 3 controller rescan fix, and a ddraw fix for paletted primary surfaces.
• Wine: PROTON_LIMIT_ADDRESS_SPACE and its address-space limits for Reverse: 1999 and Blue Protocol: Star Resonance were removed upstream.
• DXVK: v3.1.1-134. Includes D3D9 texture, StretchRect and device-reset fixes, D3D8 CopyRects rework, a workaround for an EA anti-cheat code-signing crash, shader cache fixes, and zero-initialized shader scratch memory for Call of Duty: Ghosts.
• D7VK: rebased onto DXVK v3.1.1.
• VKD3D-Proton: fixes synchronization around queued transfer operations.
• FEX: FEX-2610-30.

Controllers

• The automatic PlayStation controller XInput fallback no longer rescans every HID device each time a game polls an empty controller slot. Since GE-Proton11-8 this caused large slowdowns, even with no controller connected:
  • Path of Exile ran at ~50 FPS instead of 200+ (#862).
  • Le Mans Ultimate slow-motion physics with a Moza wheel (#777).
  • Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town lost FPS with PROTON_PREFER_SDL (#850).
  • Setting PROTON_SONY_AUTO_XINPUT=0 confirmed this was the cause in #862; the fix itself has not been confirmed in-game yet.
• Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Rune Factory 4 Special now default to PROTON_SONY_AUTO_XINPUT=0. This fixes the DualSense being assigned to player two in Sackboy and scrambled DS4 input in Rune Factory (#843). The variable was confirmed by two users.
• Bluetooth DualShock 4 and DualSense rumble now works through the XInput fallback, and input no longer stops after the first rumble (#853, thanks @ilyasbounoua). Native hidraw games on Bluetooth keep the extended controller reports (gyro and touchpad).
• PROTON_SONY_HIDRAW_XINPUT, PROTON_SONY_AUTO_XINPUT, PROTON_DUALSENSE_HAPTICS_PREFER_NON_EVENT and PROTON_DEATH_STRANDING_CONTROLLER_EFFECTS now reach the HID bus driver; previously the driver ignored them.

Wayland and Windowing

• GNOME: fixed games and launchers closing when a window that owns a popup is destroyed (mutter: "destroyed popup not top most popup"). This affected AION 2 and Battle.net auto-login with PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 (#834). Not yet confirmed on GNOME.

Video Playback

• MonoGame games no longer stall or crash when a song is played again, for example Picross for a Cause (#839, thanks @Petru101).

Rendering and HDR

• KDE Plasma: HDR detection now uses KWin's per-monitor HDR state. HDR monitors are detected even when SDR brightness is set to the HDR reference level. Other compositors keep the existing detection (#838).

Other Changes

• Arknights: Endfield: added the ACE anti-cheat driver fixes from dwproton (#847):
  • DriverEntry is called with a kernel-mode return address.
  • ntoskrnl fixes: MmCopyMemory, ServiceKeyName, MDL section views and PsGetContextThread.
  • A stub lsass.exe (SamSs) service is added and started.
  • This matches dwproton. The remaining ACE bugcheck 0x65636154 is still unresolved there too.
• Star Citizen: loads the game's bundled AMD AGS library again, as GE-Proton11-6 did. This should avoid the EAC "Untrusted system file" violation and error 30033 (#858). Not yet confirmed in-game.
• Faster shared SRW lock releases. Lock-heavy games spend less time in ntdll; Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 went from 24.5% to 19.1% (#844, thanks @smatkovi).
• Build: clang/libc++ and llvm-libc build fixes (#835, thanks @FireBurn).

Linux, ubuntu, and I'm trying to run Darktide. I've done it before, but uninstalled the game, reinstalled it because SoB are probably coming.

I click play, the pointless launcher window appears with the play button. Hit that, shows the shader cache building, then there's no window. Instead of another window appearing with the actual game in it, nothing appears, but the game is running because the audio starts to play of the opening cutscene and all that.

Alt-tab just shows the basic steam app and my browser on the other monitor, there's no window for the game, it's not a black screen, it's just not there at all. I tried verifying, uninstalling/reinstalling, trying different proton versions, putting in the launch options to be windowed, and it's been such a pain trying to find any options that may help since usually people having launch issues have the issue of a black screen with no audio, but I have no screen for the game, no window, just the damn audio. I even let it play all the way to the main menu to see if it would pop in eventually, but nah. Just hear the main menu ambiance with no window for the game.

I wanted to play It Takes Two for so long. I have it in my library, you don't need to purchase it. If you're interested, you could install It Takes Two friend's pass from steam and we could play it sometimes.

Dm me if interested.

I've seen many videos online but I want to hear from someone in the community what they think.

Hey. When I download the game from Steam on my computer during the download when it finishes the download of the game. and I press Enter to start the game, the game repeats the download all over again. When it finishes, it gets stuck in a loop of downloading the game data all over again. Does anyone know how to fix this?

carnotaurus

I need some help, I'm trying to play Sonic Adventure 2 and it won't play or start.

Ryzen 5 5500

16gb ddr4 ram 3200

0.5tb NVMe

3050 6gb

These are my PC's specs. I have nothing installed that would interfere with it. I really don't know what it could be.

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