Valve has released Proton 5.0-5, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve Company ΠΎΠΏΡƒΠ±Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ²Π°Π»Π° project release Proton 5.0-5, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. Project achievements extend under the BSD license.

Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only gaming applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes the implementation of DirectX 9/10/11 (based on the package DXVK extension) and DirectX 12 (based on vkd3d) that work by translating DirectX calls to the Vulkan API provides improved support for game controllers and the ability to use full screen mode regardless of screen resolutions supported in games. To increase the performance of multi-threaded games, the mechanisms "esync" (Eventfd Synchronization) and "futex/fsyncΒ«.

Π’ new version:

  • Added support for new versions of the OpenVR SDK;
  • Added support for new graphics API extensions Vulkan, used in some recently released games;
  • Fixed crashes in games caused by regressive changes in Proton 5.0-4;
  • Resolved network access issues in Granblue Fantasy: Versus.

Source: opennet.ru

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