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Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a big upgrade with DXVK 2.3.1, optimizations and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Apr 16

Crowbar Collective have released the Necro Patch for the Half-Life remake Black Mesa, which brings with it some essential bug fixes and some nice optimizations.

GE-Proton 9-3 and 9-4 released with a new option to help with modded games

By Liam Dawe, Apr 15

GE-Proton 9-3 has been released, and it includes a fancy new option to hopefully prevent you having issues with modded games when moving between systems like a PC and a Steam Deck.

Lutris v0.5.17 brings critical bug fixes and a new way to run games with Proton

By Liam Dawe, Apr 11

The open source game manager Lutris has a new release out, with brings in some critical bug fixes along with some new features needing testing.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.14 has GOG and Amazon fixes, category customization improvements

By Liam Dawe, Apr 2

The Heroic Games Launcher version 2.14.0 has been released and with it some category customisation improvements, to make them easier to work with. Along with fixes for their GOG and Amazon integrations and plenty more.

GE-Proton 9-2 released, ULWGL gets renamed to umu (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher)

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

Thomas "GloriousEggroll" Crider has released the latest GE-Proton 9-2 with a bunch of upgrades, plus some news about the Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher.

DXVK version 2.3.1 released with more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs

By Liam Dawe, Mar 20

The Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 used for Wine and Proton has a new release out, and it sounds like a good one if you're an NVIDIA GPU user on Linux.

VKD3D-Proton version 2.12 adds NVIDIA Reflex support

By Liam Dawe, Mar 17

The project that implements Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan, VKD3D-Proton, has version 2.12 out now bringing with it more new features like NVIDIA Reflex support!

GE-Proton 9-1 brings a whole lot of fixes for Linux / Steam Deck gaming

By Liam Dawe, Mar 9

The first release of GE-Proton based on Wine 9.0 / Proton 9.0 is here with GE-Proton 9-1 bringing in a lot of fixes for various games and new games added to ULWGL (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher).

Proton 9.0 has another Beta release fixing DEATHLOOP and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

By Liam Dawe, Mar 6

Getting closer to the stable release of Proton 9, the compatibility layer that allows running Windows games on Steam Deck and Linux Desktop PCs with another Beta update.

Proton 9.0 for Steam Deck / Linux got a small Beta update, plus Proton Experimental too

By Liam Dawe, Mar 1

Valve has released the second public Beta for Proton 9.0, what will become the next stable version of Proton for running Windows games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time

By Liam Dawe, Feb 29

The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.

Proton 9.0 now in Beta with improved game compatibility for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, Feb 24

Valve announced that Proton 9.0 is now available for testing, with lots of game compatibility improvements for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux thanks to it now being based on the recent Wine 9.0 release.

GE-Proton 8-31 and 8-32 bring fixes for Helldivers 2, Dark and Darker, Agarest

By Liam Dawe, Feb 12

Two new versions of GE-Proton have been released pulling in some extra fixes for various games for Steam Deck / Linux, so here's what's new and improved.

What to Expect From Wine on Wayland in 2024

By pleasereadthemanual, Jan 31

Collabora, the company responsible for developing Wine's Wayland driver and getting it into Wine proper, has just published Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead).

GE-Proton 8-28 released with ULWGL support for non-steam games

By Liam Dawe, Jan 29

We recently had the announcement of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (ULWGL) project, and now GE-Proton has been upgraded to make use of it with GE-Proton 8-28 out now.

Team Fortress 2 has a 64bit and Vulkan update for Linux in testing

By Liam Dawe, Jan 24

Valve are still updating Team Fortress 2 (TF2), and a bigger technical update is currently in the works that will bring 64bit and Vulkan support to the Linux version.

Proton 8.0-5 brings more HDR gaming to Linux / Steam Deck plus lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, Jan 22

Proton 8.0-5 is here marking more games as playable, bringing HDR support to even more games and of course the usual bug fixes aplenty to Steam Deck / Desktop Linux.

GE-Proton 8-26 and 8-27 released with various game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

GE-Proton has received two new versions with GE-Proton 8-26 and GE-Proton 8-27 shortly after, mostly focusing on fixing up issues in some games and pulling in new versions of various parts of Proton like Wine and DXVK.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Heroic Games Launcher is the best way to manage games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux and Steam Deck and Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 is out now. This new release brings with it a whole bunch of improvements across the entire app.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 released for easy compatibility tool installs on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

ProtonUp-Qt is an essential tool to help you install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda, Wine-GE and more for Steam, Heroic and Lutris for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

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