Valve has published the release of the Proton 7.0-3 project, which is based on the Wine project codebase and aims to run on Linux gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog. 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:
- Implemented support for rebuilding the xinput controller on Steam Deck devices.
- Improved detection of game wheels.
- Added support for the Windows.Gaming.Input API, which provides access to game controllers.
- The DXVK layer, which provides an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 1.10.1-57-g279b4b7e.
- Dxvk-nvapi, the NVAPI implementation on top of DXVK, has been updated to version 0.5.4.
- Updated version of Wine Mono 7.3.0.
- The following games are supported:
- Age of chivalry
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition
- cities XXL
- Cladun X2
- Cursed Armor
- Flanarion Tactics
- Gary Grigsby's War in the East
- Gary Grigsby's War in the West
- Iraq: Prologue
- Mech Warrior Online
- Small Radios Big Televisions
- Split / Second
- Star Wars Episode I Racer
- Stranger of Sword City Revisited
- Succubus x Saint
- V rising
- Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
- We Were Here Forever
- Improved game support:
- Street Fighter V,
- Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice,
- Fire Ring,
- Final Fantasy XIV,
- DEATHLOOP
- The Turing Test
- Mini Ninja,
- Resident Evil Revelations 2,
- Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Kai,
- Mortal Kombat Kit,
- Castle Morihisa.
- Fixed video playback issues in games: Disintegration, Dread X Collection: The Hunt, EZ2ON REBOOT: R, El Hijo - A Wild West Tale, Ember Knights, Outward: Definitive Edition, POSTAL4: No Regerts, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid , Solasta: Crown of the Magister, Street Fighter V, The Room 4: Old Sins, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and other games using VP8 and VP9 codecs.
- Improved text display in the Rockstar Launcher.
Source: opennet.ru