GE-Proton11-8

Changes since GE-Proton11-7.

Component Updates

Updated Wine bleeding-edge, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, VKD3D, D7VK, DXVK-NVAPI, DXVK-IGDext, FEX,
lsteamclient, wineopenxr and protonfixes.
Rebased the downstream patch stack and removed patches superseded upstream.

Added automatic PlayStation-to-XInput fallback when Steam Input is disabled, including
appropriate controller identity and button origins for supported games. Native controller
handling and real Steam Input take priority.
Removed most (now obsolete) game-specific Sony fallback overrides; improved compatibility with Grandia I/
II, Lunar, Sky, God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Zero Dawn.
Fixed Diablo IV's startup DualSense detection and added DualSense Edge compatibility.
Fixed Castlevania Anniversary Collection controller replacement and late connection.
Improved DS4 speaker audio, Sony controller hotplugging, Death Stranding speaker switching
and Monster Hunter Wilds haptics. Addressed audio initialization races and expensive
controller polling.
Added Switch Pro/compatible controller XInput support and corrected Dynasty Warriors 8
DualSense mappings.

Fixed Guide-button overlay not closing under Wine-Wayland, including Labwc and Warframe.
Improved overlay cursor ownership and visibility; fixed a Wine-Wayland clipboard-related
World of Warcraft crash.

Fixed fullscreen Alt+Tab restoration in Guild Wars Reforged
Fixed startup/minimize recovery for Deadlock on Niri. Added cross-driver suppression of the
transient minimized-window white rectangle. (#781, [#762]
(#762))
Improved Battle.net tray-menu rendering, positioning, keyboard focus, cursor handling and
tray recovery.
Fixed Warframe's missing launcher settings dialog and disappearing cursor.
Fixed Touhou 11's unwanted fixed-window resizing
Fixed Zenless Zone Zero launcher window being mistaken for a tray menu.
Improved GNOME direct-scanout compatibility, Vulkan surface opacity metadata and cursor
confinement updates.
Preserved Assassin's Creed DX10 fullscreen mode across Alt+Tab.

Improved VRChat YouTube, HTTP MP4, HLS, MPEG-TS and RTSP playback, including URL
compatibility, playlists, seeking, pause/resume, audio synchronization and periodic
streaming stalls.
Enabled AV1 decoding through dav1d.
Fixed Resident Evil 4 video corruption and improved intro playback performance
Fixed WUCHANG skill-preview videos. ([#775](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/
issues/775), #787)
Added playback fixes for Borderlands 3, Saku Saku, Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force,
SHUFFLE! Essence+, Hatsumira, Colin McRae Rally 3 and One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4.
Fixed interrupted music in T4C Neerya and an audio-sample memory leak affecting Apple
Jack.
Fixed Way of the Samurai 4 movie-skipping crashes.
Improved King of Fighters XIII and Taito Type X2 movie compatibility, added DirectDraw
video-overlay emulation, and fixed a seeking deadlock affecting SNK Heroines.

Added reported-working StarCraft II GPU-hang workaround. ([#790](https://github.com/
/issues/790))
Fixed Meridian: New World's dark lighting and scrolling flicker through Wine-Mono/FNA
stencil-state fixes.
Fixed Le Mans Ultimate initialization and HUD/text rendering through Direct2D
improvements. (#777)
Enabled Warframe's DX11 HDR detection and added SDR fallback when HDR is requested but
unavailable on the output.

Project Torque: corrected .NET dependencies and disabled Xalia to prevent startup
problems.
The Witcher 3: hid Wine exports to restore graphics features disabled by the game's Wine
detection.
Added or updated fixes for A Way Out, Way of the Samurai 4, Ceville, Kanvas Launcher and
the original Call of Duty's non-Steam release.
Updated the UMU database and fixed the unzip dependency URL.

Added opt-in Bluetooth LE support for applications such as Zwift and Rouvy using
PROTON_ENABLE_WINEBTH=1.
Fixed unsafe timing-source selection, process-exit hangs, Richard Burns Rally's exit
crash, and serial-port probing that disrupted Sinden lightguns.
Added SHA-256 certificate-property support for MTA and corrected incomplete TLS-record
handling.
Restored ARM64 DXVK-NVAPI builds, enabled FEX disk caching by default, and updated
upstream game/launcher compatibility fixes.
Expanded controller documentation and replaced obsolete RDNA3-specific FSR4 guidance with
PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE.