{"id":1555304,"date":"2026-04-17T16:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcEEDFwRtDaPVCV63c47Mg"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:43:38","slug":"this-is-not-a-drill-all-timer-weirdo-game-deadly-premonition-now-playable-on-linux-as-of-valves-most-recent-proton-beta-plus-17-others-and-your-ea-library-until-ea-breaks-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/this-is-not-a-drill-all-timer-weirdo-game-deadly-premonition-now-playable-on-linux-as-of-valves-most-recent-proton-beta-plus-17-others-and-your-ea-library-until-ea-breaks-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not a drill: All-timer weirdo game Deadly Premonition now playable on Linux as of Valve’s most recent Proton beta, plus 17 others and your EA library (until EA breaks it again)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Proton\u2014Valve’s Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer that makes so much of your Steam library work on Steam Deck and Linux desktops\u2014got a new big number today, in the form of the first Proton 11 beta release. <\/p>\n

This one incorporates goodies from (the also recently released) Wine 11, on which Proton is based, and you might already have seen that it marks the first glimpse of an Arm64 version of Proton<\/a> that Valve intends to put to use in the Steam Frame.<\/p>\n

But it’s also, well, a new Proton version, one that you can put to use right now on your nearest Linux thing<\/em>, and it brings with it a whole bunch of newly playable games. Games like the recently-Steamified original versions of Resident Evil 1 and 2, Shogun: Total War, and\u2014this is the big one for me\u2014Deadly Premonition.<\/p>\n

Deadly Premonition is one of five games that Valve has marked as entirely “Newly playable” on this latest iteration of Proton (I’ll include the full list down below), while the others are part of a 13-strong list of games that have previously<\/em> been playable via Proton’s experimental branch but are now safely ensconced in a\u2014relatively, this is still a beta\u2014more stable version.<\/p>\n

Aside from the playable games, Proton 11 also includes fixes for yet another busted EA App release that prevented a lot of EA games being playable (and makes the Steam overlay work with them, to boot), fixed Crimson Desert’s intro video, repaired a glitch that made Metal Gear Solid 2 hang after the end credits, and plenty more. <\/p>\n

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I’m always rather impressed by how varied the spread of games are that get fixed, tweaked, or made playable in Proton updates. It’s not just the new hotness; if you were desperately hanging around waiting for someone to fix alt-tabbing in the original Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Proton 11’s beta finally grants that wish.<\/p>\n

But like I said, for me the big one is Deadly Premonition. It’s a kind of Resident-Evil-meets-Twin-Peaks thing, it’s Swery’s magnum opus, and its PC port has always been utter dogwater\u2014a game I was prevented from 100%ing by the fact that reloading an old save to tick off my last couple of side quests invariably crashed it, and which has long required a mod called DPFix<\/a> to enter a state of semi-stability. I’m very curious to see if it joins those ranks of Windows games that somehow run better<\/em> on Linux. Early reports are positive.<\/p>\n

Here’s the full list of changes.<\/p>\n

Proton 11 beta 1 patch notes<\/h2>\n