Valve has published an update to the Proton 8.0-2 project, which is based on the Wine project codebase and is aimed at running gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog 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.
The new version fixes issues in Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin: Enhanced Edition, Divinity Original Sin II: Definitive Edition, Path of Exile, Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2. Fixed a memory leak that occurred when launching Trackmania and Ubisoft Connect . Fixed an issue with EA Launcher crashing.
Source: opennet.ru