Valve has published the release of the Proton 6.3-7 project, 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. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license.
Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes the implementation of DirectX 9/10/11 (based on the DXVK package) and DirectX 12 (based on vkd3d-proton), working through the translation of DirectX calls to the Vulkan API, provides improved support for game controllers and the ability to use full-screen mode regardless of supported in screen resolution games. To increase the performance of multi-threaded games, the "esync" (Eventfd Synchronization) and "futex / fsync" mechanisms are supported.
In the new version:
- Added support for games:
- Life is Strange: True Colors;
- Quake Champions;
- Divinity Original Sin 2;
- eFootball PES 2021;
- EVERSLAUGHT VR;
- WRC 8, 9 and 10.
- The DXVK package with the implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 1.9.2.
- Updated version of VKD3D-Proton, a fork of the vkd3d codebase created to improve Direct3D 12 support in Proton.
- Improved windowed mode support in Forza Horizon 4.
- Added support for the Logitech G920 game wheel in F1 2020.
- Fixed issues with screen settings in Resident Evil Village.
Source: opennet.ru