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Valve has released Proton 8.0-4, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has published an update to the Proton 8.0-4 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 gaming applications in the Steam Linux client. The package includes implementations 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 the supported ones in games screen resolutions. To increase the performance of multi-threaded games, the β€œesync” (Eventfd Synchronization) and β€œfutex/fsync” mechanisms are supported. Among the changes in the new version of Proton:

  • The DXVK layer, which translates calls to the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 2.3-5-g83dc4678. VKD3D-Proton, a fork of vkd3d created by Valve to improve Proton's Direct3D 12 support, has been updated to version 2.10. The shader compiler is synchronized with the latest vkd3d code base. The dxvk-nvapi package has been updated to version 0.6.4. Wine has been updated to version 8.0.1.
  • Added support for Steamworks SDK 1.58.
  • Added support for games that previously only worked in the Proton Experimental branch:
    • Arthurian Legends
    • CHAOS CODE -NEW SIGN OF CATSTROPHE-
    • EverQuest 2
    • Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
    • Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition
    • STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II
    • The longest journey
  • Fixed regressions that appeared in the Proton 8.0 branch and led to problems in the games Have a Nice Death, Resident Evil 4 (2005), Makai Kingdom: Reclaimed and Rebound, Echo and Scrap Mechanic. Fixed a regression causing issues when hot-plugging game controllers due to a race condition.
  • Problems in games and applications have been resolved:
    • Overwatch 2
    • Battle.net
    • EA Desktop
    • Baldur's Gate 3
    • Street Fighter 6
    • Garry's Mod, Dark Souls II, Aura: Fate of the Ages and Train Simulator
    • Empyrion - Galactic Survival
    • Secret of Mana
    • Aura: Fate of the Ages
    • Dwarf Fortress
    • Stray
    • SystemShock (2023)
    • Dead By Daylight,
    • Warhammer 40,000: Boltguns
    • Final Fantasy XIII
    • Locoland
    • Rainbow six extraction
    • Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
    • Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
    • Age of Empires IV
    • Age of Wonders 4's Paradox Launcher
    • Ubisoft connect
    • Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition.
    • Ship of Fools
    • Mamashroom and The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
    • Dark Parables: The Exiled Prince Collector's Edition
  • Enabled nvapi support in games:
    • Alone in the Dark
    • Atomic Heart
    • Baldur's Gate 3
    • demonologist
    • disorder
    • Doge Simulator
    • Icarus
    • Layers of Fear
    • Portal Prelude RTX
    • Rainbow six extraction
    • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
    • Remnants 2
    • severed steel
    • Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
    • Showgunners
    • Spider-Man: Miles Morales
    • Strayed Lights
    • trepang2
    • voidtrain
    • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

Source: opennet.ru

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