Valve has unleashed Proton 8.Zero full with assist for a bunch of recent video games, together with some big-name titles that are actually playable on the Steam Deck, plus there’s a raft of fixes for varied issues too.

Proton is the compatibility layer used to run Home windows video games, and it powers SteamOS, the (Linux-based) working system of the Steam Deck. So these are essential developments for Valve’s handheld – and there are some particular fixes for the gadget, besides.

The massive information is assist has been launched for Useless House 2023 and Forspoken, together with Nioh 2 and a complete lot of different video games. The complete checklist is as follows:

• Forspoken
• Samurai Maiden
• Useless House (2023)
• Creativerse
• Nioh 2 – The Full Version
• One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
• Atelier Meruru
• Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Work
• Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Ebook DX
• Blue Reflection
• Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland
• Disney Dreamlight Valley
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
• ToGather:Island
• Warriors Orochi Three Final Definitive Version
• Exceed – Gun Bullet Kids
• Gungrave G.O.R.E.
• Chex Quest HD

As Gaming on Linux (opens in new tab) stories, Proton Eight requires a GPU that helps Vulkan 1.3 (and sure, the Steam Deck is sweet to go on that entrance – all comparatively trendy graphics playing cards shall be superb).

Proton 8.Zero additionally makes particular modifications for the Steam Deck, notably enhancing the way in which sleep/resume works with Tiny Tina’s Wonderland on the hand-held, and fixing a gremlin that causes the on-screen keyboard to pop up when beginning A Plague Story: Innocence (and A Plague Story: Requiem).

There’s additionally improved multi-touch assist with Proton 8.0, and the treatment for a difficulty with the 2K Video games launcher failing. Oh, and should you had been experiencing crashes when getting back from a participant profile in Soccer Supervisor 2023, that bug has been banished.

Evaluation: Full Steam Deck forward

It’s clearly good to see a sizeable chunk of latest video games being introduced into the fold for the Steam Deck (and Linux gaming extra broadly, after all, no matter gadget you’re utilizing). In addition to the continued work smoothing over points that varied video games have with the hand-held.

Naturally, there could be gremlins within the works with any new launch, and we’ve seen stories (from Reddit (opens in new tab) and Gaming on Linux) that Age of Empires II: Definitive Version is damaged with the brand new model of Proton. It’ll crash upon opening, with an Xbox login window showing earlier than hanging.

It is a barely odd one in that apparently the sport was superb in testing for this launch of Proton, however hopefully the glitch ought to be resolved quickly sufficient. Moreover, there’s a workaround in that you may go offline to open the sport, we’re informed by a discussion board poster from Gaming on Linux.