wineland-11.0-20261022

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20261022)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20261015.

Wineland fixes

• Added an optional bundled AMD RADV driver, enabled with PROTON_RADV=1. This is a Mesa development snapshot and may be less stable than your system driver.
• Control Resonant: Added fixes and optimisations
• Fixed unintended US keyboard-layout fallback with non-US keyboards, including when using an English system locale.
• Added a VRR indicator to the HUD when confirmed by compositor presentation feedback.

Bleeding-edge and upstream cherry picks

• Improved USB controller identification and reconnect handling.
• Fixed OpenXR initialization crashes and Vulkan extension-list handling in VR applications.
• Fixed Steam file path handling for symlinked game installations.
• Updated Wine’s built-in vkd3d shader compiler to 2.1.

Other components

• Updated DXVK, vkd3d-proton and their DXBC and DXIL shader compilers.
• Removed the separate DXVK Low Latency, vkd3d Low Latency and standalone low-latency layer.

wineland-11.0-20261015

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20261015)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20261011.

Wineland fixes

• The Witcher 3: Reduced unnecessary controller scanning delay, which should help with very long load times.
• Reduced CPU overhead when games repeatedly poll Steam callbacks.

Bleeding-edge and upstream cherry picks

• Imported Wine stability fixes for thread startup, exception handling and debugger compatibility, including a 32-bit exception-stack issue.

Other components

• Updated DXVK and vkd3d-proton.

wineland-11.0-20261011

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20261011)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20261005.

Wineland fixes

• Reduced stuttering in The Witcher 3 by avoiding repeated network adapter enumeration during frequent connectivity checks.
• Fixed Wayland startup problem in AION2.
• Improved fullscreen monitor selection when moving windows, rearranging monitors or reconnecting displays.
• Restored native HDR signalling for overlays.
• Setting PROTON_WAYLAND_STEAM_OVERLAY=0 now fully disables Steam’s overlay for that Wayland launch.

Other components

• Rebased DXVK and vkd3d-proton to the latest upstream.
• Continued preparations for experimental ARM64/ARM64EC builds.
• Many other bleeding-edge and Wine upstream cherry-picks.

wineland-11.0-20261005

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20261005)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20260930.

Wineland fixes

• Fixed Return to Castle Wolfenstein failing to start. #79
• Fixed misplaced click targets in Rockstar Games Launcher. #84
• Fixed mouse capture in Wine virtual desktops. #27
• Fixed DualSense USB audio haptics with PipeWire. #86
• Fixed video playback and the white main menu screen in Killing Floor 3. #85
• Improved PipeWire audio stability.
• Reduced large NVIDIA Reflex induced frame pacing fluctuations in The Witcher 3.

Bleeding-edge and upstream cherry picks

• Added an automatic AMD CPU compatibility workaround for Crysis and Crysis Warhead.
• Fixed fullscreen window placement in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered on GNOME, including multi monitor layouts.
• Improved focus and keyboard-state handling when application windows share input.
• Improved video playback compatibility with D3D12-backed video buffers, reduced redundant media-file reads, and added a movie-playback workaround for Making*Lovers.
• Imported fixes for Direct3D 10 sprite rendering, cryptographic hashing, CPU affinity and device discovery.
• Updated OpenXR support to 1.1.63 and added 32-bit support.
• Improved controller handling in Nixxes launchers, including Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Other components

• Updated DXVK and its shader compiler.
• Updated vkd3d-proton and its DXIL shader compiler.
• Updated protonfixes, restoring Warframe’s HDR controls when using DirectX 11.
• Updated D7VK with compatibility and rendering improvements for older Direct3D games.
• Updated Xalia to 0.5.0, libsoup to 3.8.0, Meson to 1.12.1 and the Steam Runtime SDK to 4.0.20260714.251823-1.

wineland-11.0-20260930

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20260930)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20260928.1.

This release focuses mainly on The Witcher 3.

For Heroic Game Launcher currently you need to do this manually.
For Lutris currently you need to do this manually.
For Faugus launcher currently you need to do this manually.

Wineland fixes

• Restored DLSS and ray-tracing options in The Witcher 3 where the game disables them after detecting Wine. #71
• Fixed a ray-tracing shader compilation error affecting The Witcher 3 on AMD/RADV. #71
• Added a workaround for The Witcher 3 crashing after repeated NVAPI initialization failures on systems without an NVIDIA GPU. #71
• Fixed additional potential freezes involving window redraws and system tray icons. #67

Other components

• Updated DXVK, vkd3d-proton and their shader compilers.
• Extended the Wineland HUD to vkd3d-low-latency. Presentation-latency telemetry is not included in this backport.
• The HUD now identifies the active renderer and build, including DXVK-SALKIM, VKD3D-SALKIM and VKD3D-LOW-LATENCY. PROTON_HUD=3 and 4 now include the renderer version and presentation mode.

wineland-11.0-20260928.1

This is a hotfix release over the 20260928, which is now marked as pre-release and outdated.

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20260928.1)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20260922.

Wineland fixes

• Fixed the missing mouse cursor in Wuthering Waves’ survey window, allowing the survey to be used normally. #55
• Fixed Neverness to Everness closing during startup before reaching the second loading screen. #60
• Fixed the several second delay when maximising or restoring Epic Games Launcher.
• Fixed several potential dead-locks.
• Restored OptiScaler’s additional DLSS library links, undoing the overly aggressive link cleanup introduced in 0922.
• Addressed the HDR related frame rate dips.
• Other minor fixes.

Bleeding-edge and upstream cherry picks

• Imported Media Foundation and WineGStreamer fixes.
• Fixed 32-bit OpenXR registration and Vulkan device creation through OpenXR.
• Improved fallback font handling for missing characters.
• Imported additional memory safety, cryptographic and error handling fixes across Wine.

Other components

• Updated DXVK, vkd3d-proton.
• Updated DXVK Low Latency.
• Updated Protonfixes.

wineland-11.0-20260922

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20260922)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20260917.

Wineland fixes

• Fixed Borderlands 4 startup crash using updated system call handling from upstream Wine.
• Fixed Forza Horizon 6’s black-screen issue, where a background window could cover the game while it continued running.
• Fixed the missing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines launcher window.
• Fixed incorrect colours and the green strip in Grandia videos. Also corrected end-of-video handling that could prevent playback from restarting.
• Improved Steam overlay compatibility with other Vulkan overlays and fixed it being unnecessarily disabled in WoW64-only builds.
• Extended the HUD with FPS and presentation-latency graphs for DXVK and vkd3d-proton. Presentation telemetry is now also available in Direct3D 8/9 games where supported. Added present.mode to show the selected Vulkan presentation mode.
• Improved OptiScaler’s library cleanup while preserving manually replaced DLLs.
• Reduced CPU overhead from repeated FSR provider queries, addressing a performance issue reported in Dying Light: The Beast. Thanks to @psyke83 for the investigation and @BananaWorks07 for the fixes. Details.

Bleeding-edge and upstream cherry picks

• Imported Wine’s newer system call handling and associated thread and signal-handling improvements.

Other components

• Updated DXVK, vkd3d-proton and DXVK Low Latency, including DXVK 3.1.1 and presentation-timing integration in the low-latency fork.
• Updated DXVK-NVAPI, D7VK, DXVK-Sarek and NVIDIA integration components.
• Updated FFmpeg to 9.0.2, alongside media, audio, VR and runtime libraries.

wineland-11.0-20260917

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20260917)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20260913.

Wineland fixes

• Fixed a cryptographic initialization crash in Aniimo.
• Fixed movie playback through Wine’s Video Resizer for Grandia (by importing upstream Wine commits).
• Anti-cheat runtime environment variables no longer automatically disable the Steam overlay. This helps third-party launchers that set those variables globally. Explicit overlay settings remain respected.
• Fixed disappearing windows during resize.
• Fixed embedded panels being incorrectly treated as separate popups, causing misplaced or unclickable content in Aniimo.
• Fixed a focus-handling issue that could make menus close immediately after opening.

Bleeding-edge and upstream cherry picks

• Updated colour conversion, processing and resizing to use FFmpeg’s libswscale, including implementation of the Video Resizer component.
• Imported version 8.1.1 and its optimized assembly routines.

Other componenets

• Updated DXVK and vkd3d-proton, including DXVK presentation-timing improvements.
• Updated the EDID parser.

wineland-11.0-20260913

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20260913)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20260910.

HUD improvements

• Fixed a D3D12 presentation-timing bug that could cause freezes with PROTON_HUD=4 or 5.
• Added hide to start with the HUD hidden: e.g. PROTON_HUD=3,hide %command%. Press Ctrl+Shift+O to show it.
• HUD presets 2–4 now display the graphics API, such as D3D11 or D3D12, beside the driver information.

Wineland fixes

• Shaped windows and launchers: Reduced presentation overhead by reusing clipping calculations and buffer imports.
• Direct-toplevel presentation: Fixed synchronization and surface lifetime problems. This path remains optional and disabled by default.
• HDR detection: Improved automatic detection when monitor information is unavailable and fixed reading real monitor information from GNOME’s HDMI connector names.

Bleeding-edge cherry-picks

• Warcraft III: Backported certificate-chain compatibility fixes with an adapted follow-up preserving certificate trust handling for older callers.
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Added the upstream asynchronous file-read and cancellation workaround.
• Ragnarok: The New World: Applied the upstream address-space compatibility setting.
• Direct3D 10: Added further sprite-rendering, state-restoration and maths-function support.
• X11 input: Updated input-method text handling to use UTF-8.
• Wine Mono: Updated to 11.3.0.

Updated DXVK and vkd3d-proton components.

wineland-11.0-20260910

IMPORTANT: It was found that there is a bug with latency readings in PROTON_HUD=4 and 5 levels (or if you explicitly enable present latency readings) that can cause stutters or even freezes in DX12 games. Fix is underway and a hotfix will be delivered soon. In the meanwhile, you can use PROTON_HUD=3.

Proton Wineland 11.0 (20260910)

Changes since wineland-11.0-20260908.

HUD improvements

• Ctrl+Shift+O hides or shows the HUD without restarting the game. Game still has to be started with HUD enabled, though.
• GPU junction temperature: added gpu.jtemp, displayed as GPU jtemp. Included in PROTON_HUD levels 2–5 when a supported sensor is available, such as AMD’s hotspot sensor. The row is hidden when unavailable (e.g. NVIDIA). Use -gpu.jtemp to exclude it.
• D3D12 HUD placement: fixed displaced centred rows and off-screen bottom rows when the game’s backbuffer and presentation resolutions differ.

Wineland fixes

• Fixed HDR colours in Steam Overlay and MangoHud.
• HDR detection now works in more setups, including when desktop SDR brightness is set very high or the monitor’s HDR information was previously missed.
• Virtual desktops: fullscreen games retain the configured virtual-desktop resolution instead of adopting the physical monitor’s dimensions.
• Initially minimised windows are now kept under Wayland instead of disappearing (DOOM Eternal).
• X11 window creation fixed.
• Mirror’s Edge: fixed a startup deadlock that could disappear when logging was enabled.
• Not For Broadcast Prologue: fixed a startup freeze.

Upstream updates

• DXVK and vkd3d-proton: rebased onto upstream.
• DXVK-NVAPI updated.
• Vulkan Headers and Utility Libraries: updated to 1.4.362.
• Media libraries: GStreamer 1.28.7, ORC 0.4.44, FFmpeg 7.1.5, and dav1d 1.5.4.
• Supporting libraries: libxml2 2.15.4 and XZ 5.8.4.