Proton 11.0-1 was just released as stable as the newest major version of this downstream of Wine that powers Valve's Steam Play to provide for a great Windows gaming experience across conventional Linux systems plus the popular Steam Deck and brand new Steam Machine.

Since April the Proton 11.0 series has been available in beta as a re-base of this key Steam Play component against Wine 11.0 upstream. Plus a variety of other fixes and updates pulled in compared to the Proton 10.0 series. After multiple test releases, Proton 11.0-1 is out as the first stable version in the Proton 11.0 series.

Proton 11.0-1 enables support for another batch of Windows games that up to now had only worked when using the recent Steam Experimental builds. The games newly working with Proton 11.0-1 include 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, and SHOGUN: Total War.

Games now working with Proton for the first time in this release include Unknown Faces, Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, and Deadly Premonition.

Proton 11.0-1 also brings a number of different game fixes, improved rendering of the Rockstar Launcher popups, fixes many EA games being unplayable after a recent EA Desktop update, fixing the Steam Overlay that was not working for many EA games, improved support for the Kodi media player, and a wide variety of other fixes.

Proton 11.0-1 also updates to Xalia 0.4.9, FEX 2605 for ARM64EC builds, VKD3D 1.19 Git, DXVK 2.7 Git, DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1, Wine Mono 11.0, and VKD3D-Proton 20260410.

More details on the many changes to find with Proton 11.0-1 can be found via the release announcement on GitHub.

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