Valve Corporation is releasing the project build , which is based on the developments of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are licensed under the BSD license. As original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d, become ready, the changes developed in Proton are ported.
Proton allows direct launching of Windows-only gaming applications in the Linux version of Steam. The package includes an implementation of DirectX 10/11 (based on ) and 12 (based on ), which operate through the translation of DirectX calls to the Vulkan API, providing improved support for gaming controllers and the ability to use fullscreen mode regardless of the screen resolutions supported in games. Compared to the original Wine, the performance of multithreaded games has significantly increased due to the application of patches ‘’ (Eventfd Synchronization).
Key :
- Included components of wine-mono, allowing the ability to run many XNA games and games on the Unreal Engine 3 engine;
- Compatibility with the interface for launching and updating the game Warframe has been ensured;
- Issues with text input in the game Age of Empires II HD have been resolved;
- Support for the games “" and "«;
- Development of support for the functionality of the service ;
- The DXVK layer with Direct3D 10/11 implementation over the Vulkan API has been updated to the release ;
- FAudio components with DirectX audio libraries implementation (XAudio2 API, X3DAudio, XAPO, and XACT3) have been updated to the release 19.04-13-ge8c0855.
Source: opennet.ru
