Valve has published the release of the Proton 8.0 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:
- Increased hardware requirements - now requires a GPU that supports the Vulkan 1.3 graphics API.
- Synchronized with Wine 8.0 release. The accumulated specific patches have been transferred from Proton to upstream, which are now included in the main part of Wine. The DXVK layer, which translates calls to the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 2.1-4. VKD3D-Proton, a fork of vkd3d created by Valve to improve Direct3D 12 support in Proton, has been updated to version 2.8-84. The wine-mono package has been updated to version 7.4.1.
- Many games have NVIDIA NVAPI support enabled. The Dxvk-nvapi package with the implementation of the NVAPI library on top of DXVK has been updated to version 0.6.2.
- Added support for games:
- The prophesied.
- Samurai Maiden.
- Dead Space (2023).
- Creative.
- Nioh 2 - The Complete Edition.
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4.
- Atelier Meruru.
- Atelier Lydie & Suelle ~The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings~
- Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book DX.
- blue reflection.
- Atelier Rorona ~The Alchemist of Arland~ DX.
- Disney Dreamlight Valley.
- ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV.
- ToGather:Island.
- WARRIORS OROCHI 3 Ultimate Definitive Edition.
- Exceed - Gun Bullet Children.
- Gungrave GORE
- Chex Quest HD.
- Fixed problems in games:
- FIFA 21 and 22.
- Tiny Tina's Wonderland.
- Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher.
- A Plague Tale: Innocence.
- A Plague Tale: Requiem.
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.
- Football manager 2023.
- Fall in Labyrinth.
- Life is Strange Remastered.
- BeamNG.
- Force Horizon 5.
- Mortal Kombat X
- Youropa.
- Crysis Remastered.
- Company of Heroes III.
- The Last Blade 2.
- Minecraft Dungeons.
- Immortals Fenyx Rising.
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
- Dead or Alive 6.
- Fixed issue with Alt+Tab switching in GNOME 43.
- Improved multitouch support.
Source: opennet.ru