Valve has released version 7.0-3 of the Proton project, which is based on the Wine codebase and aims to enable the launch of Windows games on Linux that are listed in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license.
Proton allows for the direct launch of gaming applications in the Linux Steam client that are only supplied for Windows. The package includes implementations of DirectX 9/10/11 (based on the DXVK package) and DirectX 12 (based on vkd3d-proton), operating through the translation of DirectX calls into the Vulkan API, provides improved game controller support, and enables fullscreen mode regardless of the resolutions supported by the games. To enhance the performance of multithreaded games, support for mechanisms such as 'esync' (Eventfd Synchronization) and 'futex/fsync' is implemented.
In the new version:
- Support for rebuilding the xinput controller on Steam Deck devices has been implemented.
- The detection of game steering wheels has been improved.
- Support for the Windows.Gaming.Input API, which provides access to game controllers, has been added.
- The DXVK layer, which provides an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, operating through call translation to the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 1.10.1-57-g279b4b7e.
- Dxvk-nvapi, an NVAPI implementation on top of DXVK, has been updated to version 0.5.4.
- The version of Wine Mono has been updated to 7.3.0.
- Support has been provided for the following games:
- Age of Chivalry
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition
- Cities XXL
- Cladun X2
- Cursed Armor
- Flanarion Tactics
- Gary Grigsby’s War in the East
- Gary Grigsby’s War in the West
- Iragon: Prologue
- MechWarrior Online
- Small Radios Big Televisions
- Split/Second
- Star Wars Episode I Racer
- Stranger of Sword City Revisited
- Succubus x Saint
- V Rising
- Warhammer: End Times — Vermintide
- We Were Here Forever
- Improved game support includes:
- Street Fighter V,
- Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice,
- Elden Ring,
- Final Fantasy XIV,
- DEATHLOOP,
- The Turing Test,
- Mini Ninja,
- Resident Evil Revelations 2,
- Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Kai,
- Mortal Kombat Komplete,
- Castle Morihisa.
- Issues with video playback in games have been resolved: Disintegration, Dread X Collection: The Hunt, EZ2ON REBOOT: R, El Hijo — A Wild West Tale, Ember Knights, Outward: Definitive Edition, POSTAL4: No Regerts, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, Street Fighter V, The Room 4: Old Sins, Ghostwire: Tokyo, as well as in other games using VP8 and VP9 codecs.
- Text rendering in Rockstar Launcher has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru
