{"id":234024,"date":"2026-04-21T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/proton-experimental-upgraded-to-proton-11-for-better-linux-gaming-compatibility\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:45:09","slug":"proton-experimental-upgraded-to-proton-11-for-better-linux-gaming-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/proton-experimental-upgraded-to-proton-11-for-better-linux-gaming-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton Experimental upgraded to Proton 11 for better Linux gaming compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/proton-experimental-upgraded-to-proton-11-for-better-linux-gaming-compatibility\/\">Proton Experimental upgraded to Proton 11 for better Linux gaming compatibility<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/proton-experimental-upgraded-to-proton-11-for-better-linux-gaming-compatibility\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/proton-experimental-upgraded-to-proton-11-for-better-linux-gaming-compatibility\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 14:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After releasing the big Proton 11 Beta to run more Windows games on Linux \/ SteamOS, Valve just upgraded Proton Experimental some more too.<\/p>\n<p>Proton Experimental is the staging ground where Valve add in more rapid changes with less testing, whereas the numbered Proton versions are the main stable releases most people will be using (and what Valve set as the default for a lot of games). When a new stable update comes along, Proton Experimental tends to lag behind just a little.<\/p>\n<p>With the April 21st update to Proton Experimental it&#8217;s now caught up, with some extras. From the changelog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All changes from Proton 11.0-beta1.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Proton 11 regressions:\n<ul>\n<li>They Are Billions should no longer should suffer from low FPS when playing the intro cinematic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Updated vkd3d-proton, dxvk, vkd3d, dxvk-nvapi and FEX to the latest development versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And all the Proton 11 Beta 1 changes as a reminder and to save you a click are below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now playable (previously worked with Proton Experimental):\n<ul>\n<li>Universe Generator: The Golden Sword<\/li>\n<li>DCS World Steam Edition<\/li>\n<li>Resident Evil (1996)<\/li>\n<li>Resident Evil 2 (1998)<\/li>\n<li>Dino Crisis<\/li>\n<li>Dino Crisis 2<\/li>\n<li>From Dust<\/li>\n<li>Blaite<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Die Dateless, Dummy!<\/li>\n<li>METAL GEAR SURVIVE<\/li>\n<li>Warhammer: Vermintide 2<\/li>\n<li>Metal Fatigue<\/li>\n<li>SHOGUN: Total War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Newly playable:\n<ul>\n<li>Unknown Faces<\/li>\n<li>Gothic 1 Classic<\/li>\n<li>X-Plane 12<\/li>\n<li>Breath of Fire IV<\/li>\n<li>Deadly Premonition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fixed video playback in She Sees Red.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed rendering of certain symbols with Ukranian language option in Chambers.<\/li>\n<li>Enabled text-to-speech accessibility feature in Pentiment and Grounded.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed voice chat in Phasmophobia lobby for desktop players.<\/li>\n<li>Improved rendering of Rockstar Launcher popups.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Sea of Solitude showing black screen on Proton.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed many EA games being unplayable after a recent EA Desktop update.<\/li>\n<li>Added support for SteamWorks SDK 1.64.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Steam Overlay not working correctly with many EA games.<\/li>\n<li>Improved emoji support in Idle Trillionaire.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed intro video playback in&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/proton-experimental-upgraded-to-proton-11-for-better-linux-gaming-compatibility\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton Experimental upgraded to Proton 11 for better Linux gaming compatibility https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/proton-experimental-upgraded-to-proton-11-for-better-linux-gaming-compatibility\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-21&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/600625402id28862gol.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-234024","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\/234024"}],"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=234024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234026,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234024\/revisions\/234026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}