Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 9.0-3, based on the Wine project codebase and aimed at allowing Linux to run Windows games available in the Steam catalog. Development of the project is licensed under BSD.
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.
Changes in the new version of Proton include:
- The DXVK layer, which translates calls to the Vulkan API, has been updated to branch 2.4.
- VKD3D-Proton, a branch of vkd3d created by Valve to improve Direct3D 12 support in Proton, has been updated to version 2.13.
- The Dxvk-nvapi package with the NVAPI library implementation over DXVK has been updated to version 0.7.1.
- The Wine Mono engine with .NET platform implementation has been updated to release 9.2.0.
- Support for using D3D12 with OpenXR for virtual reality headset functionality has been added.
- Thanks to Xalia, it is now possible to use game controllers to manage the Fallout 3 game launcher.
- Memory consumption has been reduced during video playback in 32-bit games.
- Support for the following games has been added:
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
- Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!
- Banyu Lintar Angin
- Dinner with an Owl,
- Farlight 84
- Flatout 3
- KinitoPET
- Owl Observatory Demo
- Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
- Super
- Sword of Convallaria
- Syberia
- THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION
- To Pixelia Demo
- Unity of Command II
- Zaccaria Pinball
- Resolved issues in the following games:
- Aimlabs
- Arcanum
- Burnout Paradise Remastered
- Dinogen Online
- Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
- FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE
- Guild Wars 2.
- Halo Infinite
- Helldivers 2
- Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
- IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
- Iragon
- Once Human
- One Finger Death Punch
- Project Kunai
- Quantum Break
- RAID: World War II
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- SCP Secret Laboratory
- Shady Brook — A Dark Mystery Text Adventure
- Spirit Hunter: NG
- Squad
- Starfield: Creation Kit
- Strip Fighter ZERO
- The Finals
- Undecember
- Unreal Insights
- Yakuza 4 Remastered
- Yakuza Kiwami
- Zeepkist
- Regressions identified in Proton 9 affecting the following games have been fixed:
- Alan Wake’s American Nightmare’s DLC
- Bionic Commando
- GRID Autosport
- GRID 2
- Noita
- Sonic Forces.
- CodeWeavers has released CrossOver 26.0, based on Wine code and designed to run programs and games written for the Windows platform.
Source: opennet.ru
