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Valve has released Proton 5.0-7, a package for running Windows games on Linux
Valve Company ΠΎΠΏΡΠ±Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ²Π°Π»Π° project release Proton 5.0-7, 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«.