Valve has announced the release of Proton 8.0, which is based on the Wine project codebase and aims to enable the launch of gaming applications designed for Windows on Linux, showcased 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:
- Hardware requirements have increased — a GPU supporting the Vulkan 1.3 graphics API is now necessary.
- Synchronization with the Wine 8.0 release has been completed. Accumulated specific patches from Proton have been merged into the main set of Wine. The DXVK layer, which translates calls to the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 2.1-4. VKD3D-Proton, a branch of vkd3d created by Valve to improve Direct3D 12 support in Proton, has been updated to version 2.8-84. The wine-mono package has been updated to version 7.4.1.
- Support for NVIDIA NVAPI has been added for many games. The Dxvk-nvapi package, which implements the NVAPI library on top of DXVK, has been updated to version 0.6.2.
- Support for the following games has been added:
- Forspoken.
- Samurai Maiden.
- Dead Space (2023).
- Creativerse.
- Nioh 2 — The Complete Edition.
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4.
- Atelier Meruru.
- Atelier Lydie & Suelle ~The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings~.
- Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book DX.
- Blue Reflection.
- Atelier Rorona ~The Alchemist of Arland~ DX.
- Disney Dreamlight Valley.
- ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV.
- ToGather:Island.
- WARRIORS OROCHI 3 Ultimate Definitive Edition.
- Exceed — Gun Bullet Children.
- Gungrave G.O.R.E.
- Chex Quest HD.
- Resolved issues in the following games:
- FIFA 21 and 22.
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderland.
- Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher.
- A Plague Tale: Innocence.
- A Plague Tale: Requiem.
- Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.
- Football Manager 2023.
- Fall in Labyrinth.
- Life is Strange Remastered.
- BeamNG.
- Forza Horizon 5.
- Mortal Kombat X.
- Youropa.
- Crysis Remastered.
- Company of Heroes III.
- The Last Blade 2.
- Minecraft Dungeons.
- Immortals Fenyx Rising.
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
- Dead or Alive 6.
- The issue with Alt+Tab switching in GNOME 43 has been resolved.
- Multitouch support has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru
