Proton Next ready for testing, improved gaming on Steam Deck & Linux



Valve has put up Proton Next, which will eventually be the new stable version of Proton for #SteamDeck and #Linux desktop.

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22 thoughts on “Proton Next ready for testing, improved gaming on Steam Deck & Linux”

  1. ProtonGE is perfectly fine and it has many improvements over Valve's Proton. The biggest feature is Async Shader Compilation. It basically renders the game without waiting for the shaders, so there is no shader compilation stuttering on games without shader cache, but it can show graphical issues due polygons not fully shadered. While this is an amazing feature, it is not supported by Valve just because unshadered polygons can be seen as transparent, so of course this can be exploited for wallhacking.

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  2. I thought Next was just meant to be Experimental lol. As a side note, can you delete the older versions of proton? Going by the size of ProtonGE, they can take up quite a bit of space, which seems pointless when I imagine the large majority doesn't use anything below proton 7.04

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  3. Yo, what are you using to get the protonDB ranking on the steam page?
    Is that on the steam client or is it a browser extension?
    Looks super nice and I wish I had it when looking at games.
    Love the steam deck plug-in but it only shows stuff in my library.

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  4. Well nice to see they are doing something new here, many games are still not working as expected. Upside down video still in my Secret of Mana remake opening cutscene. Control got Wine runtime error and won’t even start the game sometime.

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  5. After 6 months of that circus i switch to windows. Now all i need is… i don't know, since everything work without choosing any of that s**t. Also my disk space reserve for system is now like 3 times smaller on windows. Probably it was fold all that different proton version installed with my games and shader and folder structure that never delete itself after uninstalling game.

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