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Valve has expanded the Steam Play whitelist to include DARK SOULS III and plenty more

By Liam Dawe, 14 Nov 2018

There I am, in bed about to fall asleep when my phone lights up as I forgot to put it on silent. Thankfully so, as it turns out Valve just expanded the Steam Play whitelist and that's always a bit exciting.

DXVK 0.92 is out with fixes for LA Noire, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and more

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2018

DXVK, the excellent Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation used together with Wine that forms part of Valve's Steam Play has a fresh brew ready.

Vulkan
Wine

Lutris game manager release 0.4.22 is out to further refine the experience

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2018

For those who need a hand managing Linux games across Steam, Wine, DXVK and so on. Lutris is here to help and a new release is now available.

Apps

DXVK 0.91 is out to reduce CPU overhead slightly and improve some games

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2018

DXVK continues to progress helping Linux fans play some of their favourite Windows only games with the 0.91 release now available.

Vulkan
Wine

Valve have pushed out another Steam Play update with the 3.16-4 beta including corefonts support

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2018

Another exciting set of changes for Valve's new Steam Play system. This time the Proton beta 3.16-4 includes some really good stuff.

Valve gave an update on the major SOULCALIBUR VI issues with Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 27 Oct 2018

It seems users trying out SOULCALIBUR VI in Steam Play ended up with a major issues in both Linux and Windows due to a bug in Steam Play's Proton. Valve have now given out a statement.

Lutris 0.4.21 is out to help you manage all your gaming needs on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 22 Oct 2018

Lutris, the 'open gaming platform' that acts as a front-end to help you manage various games on Linux has a fresh release out.

Apps

Valve just put out another (smaller) Steam Play beta version

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2018

Valve are moving quickly based on feedback during the beta period, with Steam Play's Proton now having a 3.16-3 beta available.

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Beta

Proton beta 3.16-2 is out for Valve's Steam Play system

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2018

Valve are continuing to polish the next version of Steam Play's Proton with an update to the beta channel.

Proton
Beta

Valve have updated Steam Play with the 3.16-1 beta based on Wine 3.16 and new DXVK

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2018

Valve are moving fast with Steam Play updates! Just today they've released the Steam Play 3.16-1 beta which is a pretty big deal.

Proton
Valve

Hot on the heels of the latest release of the Vulkan API, DXVK 0.90 is now out with Stream Output support

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2018

DXVK, the awesome Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation that's used in Wine and Steam Play's Proton has just put out version 0.90 after the latest release of the Vulkan API.

Vulkan
Wine

Saturday Mag: Linux gaming news odds and ends plus a look at a few things on sale

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2018

A day early! Your new weekly roundup of odds and ends for Linux gaming that didn't make it into the main news this week, plus a look at some sales.

Misc

The recent Steam Play beta is now out for everyone, plus a minor beta update

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2018

Valve continue pushing ahead with improvements to their Steam Play system with the most recent beta now being out for everyone.

DXVK 0.81 is out with better performance for 32bit builds, minor CPU overhead reduction and more

By Liam Dawe, 5 Oct 2018

Continuing the exciting Wine-related news tonight, DXVK for Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation that's used with Wine has a 0.81 version now available.

Vulkan
Wine

The Wine team have released VKD3D version 1.1 of their Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation library

By Liam Dawe, 5 Oct 2018

Pretty exciting times for the Wine team, with the release of VKD3D version 1.1 of their Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation library.

Vulkan
Wine

The Sunday Mag - a look at some Linux stuff on sale and other odds and ends

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2018

It's Sunday, I have still a ridiculous cold so I feel quite poorly. Here's a run over some Linux games on sale, some other random things along with a question to you.

Misc

VK9 for getting Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit their 28th milestone

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2018

While we've talked a lot about DXVK recently, let's not forget other interesting projects like VK9 (formerly SchaeferGL) which aims to give Direct3D 9 over Vulkan.

There's another Wine development release out today with version 3.17

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2018

Wine development continues the rapid advancements with another biweekly release giving us Wine 3.17 today.

Wine

Valve have pushed out a new Steam Play beta with DXVK 0.80 and more

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2018

As expected, Valve have pushed out an update to Proton for their Steam Play system with a new beta version.

Steam Play set to get DXVK 0.72, Wine fixes for .NET and windowing issues

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2018

After some pretty quick updates following the initial release of Steam Play, things have quietened down somewhat. However, work on the next version of Steam Play is in progress.