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DXVK Native gets an official release to help Linux ports with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 11 Aug 2021

For developers looking to bring their games to Linux officially, DXVK Native can be a good option to help reduce the time and complexity involved in doing so.

CodeWeavers announce CrossOver 21.0 is out now with Wine 6.0 and DXVK 1.7

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2021

CodeWeavers, the company the sponsors the Wine project and employs multiple of the developers has announced the release of their CrossOver 21.0 release.

Proton 6.14 GE-2 and Wine 6.14 GE-2 are out, easily update Proton GE with ProtonUp

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2021

Multiple updates to community-built versions of Proton and Wine, along with a very interesting bit of software to help you upgrade Proton GE called ProtonUp.

A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through July 2021

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for July 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!

Lutris game manager 0.5.9-beta1 is out adding Epic Games Store support

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2021

It's been a while since we had a new major release of Lutris, the free and open source game manager that allows you to bundle together all of your games in a single application.

Proton 6.13 GE-1 is out now with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, Resizable BAR

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2021

Proton GE, the community-made version of Proton with a bunch of enhancements has a new release out with Proton-6.13-GE-1 pulling in a bunch of advanced features and fixes.

An interview with Joshua Ashton, developer on the likes of DXVK, VKD3D-Proton and more

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

Time for another GamingOnLinux interview! This time, we have someone who many that follow Valve and Steam Play Proton will be familiar with - it's Joshua Ashton.

DXVK 1.9.1 is out for translating Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

The DXVK project continues to mature its translation layer for Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan, something that can be used together with Wine and Proton (along with a few ports using it).

Faster Zombies to Steam Deck: The History of Valve and Linux Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jul 2021

Well, Valve and Linux Gaming together have come a very long way since the early blogs posts about getting Left 4 Dead 2 running fast on Linux to the new Steam Deck. But just how far have they come? Let's do a little reminiscing.

A chat with Joshua Strobl of the Solus Linux distribution

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jul 2021

With Solus seeming to go from strength to strength along with a recent big release, it was time to sit down and have a chat with one of the team about the Linux distribution.

Proton Experimental gets a small update and fixes Quake Champions crashes

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2021

Ready for some more testing? Valve has updated Proton Experimental once again with some new bits, including solving some crashes with Quake Champions.

NVIDIA 470.57.02 released as the next stable Linux driver (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2021

On top of today NVIDIA revealing RTX and DLSS from Arm, plus the DLSS SDK updated for native Linux games they've now released the first stable driver of the 470 series with 470.57.02. ARTICLE UPDATE: a fresh legacy driver was issued too.

Stadia gets more generous revenue models plus a porting toolkit for DirectX to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2021

At the recent Google for Games Developer Summit it seems that Google actually still has quite a clear focus on Stadia and they're trying to entice more developers to bring their games over.

Game manager Lutris 0.5.8.4 out as a small fix-up before the next major release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

The free and open source game manager Lutris has a fresh release up, although it's mostly a fix-up release as work is ongoing for the next major release due soon.

NVIDIA puts out a new release of their open source NVAPI interface

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

With the absolutely huge NVIDIA 470 driver release now out the door, NVIDIA has just put up a fresh release of their open source NVAPI interface.

A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through June 2021

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for June 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!

A busy weekend ahead perhaps? Steam Play Proton 6.3-5 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2021

Valve announced the latest version of the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer is out now with 6.3-5. Update - 26/06/21: Proton Experimental also saw an update.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games sees a small bug fix release ahead of the big 1.8

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2021

Heroic Games Launcher is an application built on top of the a command-line client called Legendary, and Heroic has a fresh bug fix release out to help ahead of a major release.

Steam Play Proton 6.3-5 has a first Release Candidate out with lots of changes

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2021

Time for a weekend of testing as the next version of Steam Play Proton is closing in with Proton 6.3-5 having a first Release Candidate now available.