This is a hotfix release:

• Fixes a bug where the steam desktop global virtual device would still be recognized in-game when wine-wayland was enabled, causing incorrect mappings and double input. Steam Overlay does not work in wine-wayland and subsequently neither does Steam Input since it requires the overlay for profile assignment. (It has always been this way since wine-wayland was added), but now with the desktop profile out of the way the controller input should behave the same as native wine expects it to when wine-wayland is enabled. This does not appear to be a problem with wine-wayland disabled even if steam input is disabled.

• Fixes compilation failure on aarch64 due to an architecture specific code difference in the wineopenxr decoupling patch (this patch allows VR to work outside of steam)

• Fixes compilation failure on aarch64 due to the new nvidia libraries only being buildable on x86_64 – they’ve been disabled on aarch64.

GE-Proton11-2:

Note:

I did not have enough time to do thorough regression testing for video playback after making recent changes, however several games that had video playback issues in 11-1 have since been fixed. Many of the VR related issues have also been fixed. I wanted to get this release out because it contains important fixes for allowing Marvel Rivals and Diablo IV to run correctly.

• Scope

Game Fixes

• Star Citizen: repaired WineOpenXR Vulkan integration and external VR support.

• VRChat: fixed remote HLS/YouTube playback, audio, seeking, reloading, and consecutive queued videos.

• Witch on the Holy Night: fixed embedded bytestream video playback.

• FAVORITE visual novels: fixed black-screen video with audio.

• Deadly Premonition: fixed hanging, timing, and allocator-backed video output.

• GTA San Andreas: fixed MPEG videos displaying black and corrected audio/video synchronization.

• Yakuza 5 Remastered: fixed startup video crashes and ignored no-op decoder format changes.

• Riddle Joker: fixed green padding bars in video output.

• Dragon’s Dogma 2: fixed green video padding bars.

• Cyberpunk 2077 / issues #567 and #588: reduced audio delays and fixed a null-handling failure.

• Killing Floor 3: added real decoder format propagation and Winsock address validation.

• MapleStory: fixed startup failures involving accessibility settings and CharPrevA/CharPrevExA null pointers.

• LimeLight Lemonade Jam: added the missing GetFileVersionInfoByHandle compatibility stub.

• Gears 2 Hollow installer: added ICU forwarding DLL support.

• Battle.net and Warframe: added --in-process-gpu handling for Wine Wayland launchers.

• Battle.net: fixed Wine Wayland white-screen behavior.

• Issue #551: preserved the real OpenGL GPU/device description reported by wined3d.

• Issue #610: added a secur32 fallback for the older GnuTLS shipped by SteamRT4.

• Issue #638: added layered-window extended-style handling.

• Issue #605: added long-running PulseAudio timestamp-wrap and starvation recovery.

• Imported upstream fix for Diablo IV

• Imported upstream fix for Marvel Rivals

Media Rework

• Rebased the FFmpeg/winedmo video stack onto newer Wine.

• Added remote HLS URL support.

• Improved media-session state transitions, seeking, replay, stream completion, and decoder format changes.

• Added codec-aligned padding initialization and legacy Quartz output handling.

• Improved audio clock recovery, starvation handling, and long-running stream timing.

• Removed duplicate or obsolete media patches after upstream changes.

Controller Support

• Added wired USB haptics for:

  • DualShock 4

  • DualSense

  • DualSense Edge

  , tested confirmed working in stellar blade and spider-man remastered

• Added controller mono-speaker/effect-audio output., tested confirmed working in spider-man remastered

• Added PulseAudio routing to the correct Sony controller speaker profile., tested confirmed working in spider-man remastered

• Fixed hotplugging and switching among DS4, DualSense, and DualSense Edge., tested confirmed working in spider-man remastered

• Added fresh endpoint registration, stale endpoint cleanup, stream retargeting, stable endpoint IDs, and

  duplicate udev-device filtering.

• Fixed controller speaker routing after repeated disconnects, reconnects, and model changes., tested confirmed working in spider-man remastered

• Standardized the controller implementation on PulseAudio instead of direct ALSA endpoint exposure.

Graphics And Scaling

• Added complete OptiScaler download, injection, and Protonfixes integration.

• Added FSR4/FFX4 version selection and updated AMD scaler support.

• Updated AMD amdxc/FSR4 support through the newer EM-11 patchset.

• Added NVIDIA compatibility libraries:

  • NVAPI

  • CUDA

  • NVENC

  • NVML

  • OptiX

• Added Vulkan layers and corrected their missing submodule definitions.

• Updated DXVK, DXVK-NVAPI, VKD3D-Proton, D7VK, Vulkan headers, and FEX.

Wine And Wayland

• Updated to newer bleeding-edge Wine revisions.

• Rebased the EM-11 Wine Wayland patchset.

• Improved layered windows, fractional scaling, pointer warping, keyboard mappings, IME handling, popup windows,

  exclusive fullscreen, monitor placement, surface caching, and window restoration.

• Removed deprecated dw-proton patches already superseded by EM-11 or upstream Wine.

Build And Release

• Fixed AArch64 builds by packaging missing SteamRT4 libraries, including bzip2.

• Fixed README download scripts to select the correct x86_64 or AArch64 archive and checksum.

• Fixed the AArch64 archive-name regular expression.

• Imported newer upstream Proton build, Docker, and launcher-script changes.

• Restored prefix creation after an imported Proton-script regression.

• Fixed missing NVIDIA and Vulkan-layer submodule URLs.

• Prevented release automation from failing when a release already exists.

• Expanded the compatibility-report issue template.

• Cleaned duplicate scaler, hotfix, and obsolete patch references.