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Proton 7.0-4 is live bringing more compatibility to Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 16 Aug 2022

Valve has today released Proton 7.0-4 after a short period in public testing, this brings further compatibility of Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.4.0 is out with GOG Cloud Save support

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2022

Heroic Games Launcher enables you to download games on Linux and Steam Deck from both the Epic Store and GOG. A big new release is out now with some massive new features.

Proton 7.0-4 is coming to bring more compatibility to Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2022

Valve are preparing to ship the next version of Proton, their compatibility layer that runs Windows games on Steam Deck and Linux desktop with Proton 7.0-4 having a Release Candidate ready to test.

DXVK 1.10.3 out with work for Halo Infinite plus better Stray performance for Proton

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2022

DXVK is a Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer used in Proton, to help run Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck. A new release version 1.10.3 is out now.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.6.8 out now

By Liam Dawe, 1 Aug 2022

MangoHud is probably one of my favourite open source projects giving Linux gamers a fancy HUD to display various performance metrics in a nice overlay. Version 0.6.8 is out now!

Wine manager app Bottles makes rolling back configs real easy

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2022

Bottles is the free and open source app that allows you to easily manage Wine, the Windows compatibility layer on Steam Deck and Linux. Another new version is live, with a whole new versioning system to help you roll back changes.

GE-Proton 7-27 has the Halo Infinite campaign and videos working on Steam Deck & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2022

Recently I showed off Halo Infinite running quite nicely online on the Steam Deck and now GE-Proton 7-27 that just went up makes the process even smoother and the campaign and videos now work too.

Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK version 1.10.2 is up with lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2022

DXVK is the translation tool used inside of Steam Play Proton that translates Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan and a new release is out now with version 1.10.2.

Proton 7.0-3 is out further improving compatibility on Steam Deck and Linux

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2022

Proton 7.0-3 is the latest stable version of the compatibility layer, that allows you to run Windows games on Steam Deck and Linux and it's out now. Here's what's new.

You can now try Resident Evil Village directly in your browser using Stadia tech

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jun 2022

Capcom has released a cloud gaming browser demo of the popular Resident Evil Village, so you can try it out in only a click and a few seconds waiting on pretty much any platform.

Proton 7.0-3 in testing, will bring more game compatibility to Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2022

Valve and their partner CodeWeavers are working towards the next major upgrade of Proton, the compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux and the Steam Deck.

GE-Proton 7.15 is out, enables Fall Guys on Linux and Steam Deck easily

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2022

Do you want to play Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout on Linux or Steam Deck the easy way? Well, the community-built version of Proton named GE-Proton (formerly Proton-GE) has a new version out to do just that.

Proton 7.0-2 out now with many more games playable on Steam Deck and Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2022

Valve has now officially released the latest version of Proton, the Steam Play compatibility tool that allows Windows games to run on the Steam Deck and Linux desktops.

Proton Experimental updated, fixes Resident Evil Revelations 2 for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2022

Valve recently put up a new version of Proton Experimental, the compatibility layer that runs Windows games on Linux and the Steam Deck handheld.

Valve updates Portal to improve Steam Deck performance

By Liam Dawe, 14 Apr 2022

Valve sure do give a lot of love to their games (okay, most, I hear the rumbling of TF2 fans in the background) and a new update has rolled out for the original Portal to help the Steam Deck.

GE-Proton gets upgraded with Feral GameMode added (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 4 Apr 2022

GE-Proton, the unofficial community-built version of the Proton compatibility layer has a new version out (and some hotfixes). UPDATED.

DXVK 1.10.1 is out with initial support for shared resources

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2022

DXVK is the free and open source project that translates Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan for use with the Wine and Proton Windows translation layers.

Google talk about their 'Windows emulator' for Stadia and they use DXVK already

By Liam Dawe, 15 Mar 2022

During the ongoing Google for Games Developer Summit 2022 Keynote, one of the Google team just did a talk on "How to write a Windows emulator for Linux from scratch" to help Stadia.

Proton Experimental fixes Apex Legends, Xbox login and more for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 11 Mar 2022

Proton compatibility with Windows games is going to be an ongoing improvement for many years, and Proton Experimental is where all the latest comes in first for Linux and Steam Deck.

Google plans their own version of Wine to run Windows games on Stadia

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2022

Stadia is something we don't really talk about here too much now, as Google has let it slide considerably from the original aim but it's still going and it seems Google still has some interesting plans for it.

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