{"id":207925,"date":"2026-01-29T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-the-ea-app-again-on-steamos-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:55:08","slug":"proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-the-ea-app-again-on-steamos-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-the-ea-app-again-on-steamos-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton Experimental updated to fix the EA app again on SteamOS \/ Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-the-ea-app-again-on-steamos-linux\/\">Proton Experimental updated to fix the EA app again on SteamOS \/ Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-the-ea-app-again-on-steamos-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-the-ea-app-again-on-steamos-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-29 16:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valve have put out a fresh Proton Experimental upgrade for SteamOS \/ Linux systems, which thankfully includes a fix for the EA app breaking again. Only a few days ago Valve launched the new stable Proton 10.0-4, which Proton Experimental includes plus extra fixes not yet ready for everyone. See more on all the different Proton versions in the GamingOnLinux guide.<\/p>\n<p>There were quite a lot of reports across social media, Reddit, and a few on Valve&#8217;s official GitHub about various games published by EA (like Mass Effect) no longer launching due to issues with the EA app. This should now be solved with the latest update!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pictured &#8211; Mass Effect on Steam Deck<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the main changes for the January 29th update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed many EA games being uplayable after a recent EA Desktop update.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed The King of Fighters XIII Global Match freezing when playing videos from the gallery.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed lag spikes caused by Steam overlay being opened for prolonged time.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Hollow Knight Beta update wrongly registering Steam Deck&#8217;s Steam button as a left trigger.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Proton 10 regressions:\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed Disintegration getting stuck on the first loading screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To use Proton Experimental, go into the game Properties and into the Compatibility menu. Tick the box at the top, then select Proton Experimental from the drop-down box that appears and it will be set for that specific game.<\/p>\n<p>Just as a reminder &#8211; if you encounter issues with a game, you can add this as a launch option in the Properties menu:<\/p>\n<p>PROTON_LOG=1 %command%<\/p>\n<p>This will place a log file with the game&#8217;s Steam ID in your \/home folder after attempting to play it, which you can then pop into the official Valve Proton GitHub to report your problems.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-the-ea-app-again-on-steamos-linux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton Experimental updated to fix the EA app again on SteamOS \/ Linux https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-the-ea-app-again-on-steamos-linux\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/194685898id28406gol.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-207925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207927,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207925\/revisions\/207927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}