Valve has promoted Proton 11.0-1 to stable, and the most immediately useful change may be the one that simply undoes recent damage: a fix for the batch of EA titles that became unplayable after an EA Desktop client update. The Steam Overlay for those games is restored as well. Beyond the EA triage, 11.0-1 is the first stable release in a new major series built on Wine 11.0, graduating from beta testing that began in April. It ships updated translation layers across the board, including DXVK 2.7, VKD3D-Proton 20260410, DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1, Wine Mono 11.0, and FEX 2605 for ARM64EC builds, the last of which matters for the growing number of Arm-based Linux systems and the new Steam Machine hardware.
The compatibility list gets a notable expansion. Five games work under Proton for the first time ever: Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, Deadly Premonition, and Unknown Faces. Another fourteen titles that previously required Steam Experimental builds now run on the stable branch, a list that includes the original Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), both Dino Crisis entries, DCS World Steam Edition, Metal Gear Survive, and Warhammer: Vermintide 2. The classic Capcom survival horror ports in particular fill a gap that Linux gamers have worked around with manual Wine prefix tweaks for years.
Smaller fixes round out the release. Rockstar Launcher popup rendering is improved, Kodi media player support gets a bump, and the Xalia accessibility layer updates to 0.4.9. Proton 11.0-1 applies to the Steam Deck, conventional Linux desktops, and Valve's Steam Machine. The full changelog is available on GitHub.
