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Wine 6.0 comes closer with a second Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe, 12 Dec 2020

The Wine compatibility layer is closing in on a big new release, with the second Release Candidate now available for testing on Wine 6.0.

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Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs

By Liam Dawe, 9 Dec 2020

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Two bits of major news to cover for the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer, with some exciting major changes coming in with updates.

Steam Play Proton 5.13-3 rolls out restoring controller hotplugging

By Liam Dawe, 8 Dec 2020

Valve and CodeWeavers have rolled out another smaller update to the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer.

The road to Wine 6.0 begins with a first Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2020

The Wine compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux and other systems has a new development release up, the first Release Candidate for Wine 6.0.

Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.7.3 released

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2020

The open source DXVK project which translates D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan for use with Linux and the Wine compatibility layer has a new release up.

Wine compatibility layer development release 5.22 is up, video fixes and 3DES support

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2020

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard announced that the Wine 5.22 development release is now officially available.

Collabora put up their patches for Linux Kernel work to help Windows games on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2020

Collabora, one of the companies working under contract for Valve to help improve Windows game emulation on Linux with the likes of Wine have now sent in some patches to the Linux Kernel mailing list for discussion.

Steam Play Proton 5.13-2 compatibility layer is out now with improved Direct3D 12 support

By Liam Dawe, 14 Nov 2020

The Proton compatibility layer used with Steam Play on Linux has a brand new release out with Proton 5.13-2.

Steam Play Proton 5.13 gets a Release Candidate, Valve working on new Vulkan extension

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2020

Two pieces of Valve news to cover this Tuesday morning including new updates to Steam Play Proton and an upcoming Vulkan extension to help deal with other APIs and porting.

Windows compat layer Wine 5.21 out, supports helpful Vulkan extensions for debugging

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2020

The hackers working away on the Wine compatibility layer for running Windows games and apps on Linux tagged a new development release with Wine 5.21.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2020

Supporting newer and more advanced Windows games like Control and Death Stranding, the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release.

If you play World of Warcraft on Linux with Wine, check out WowUp for addons

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2020

While it's true that World of Warcraft doesn't support Linux, it has been playable on Linux for years thanks to the Wine compatibility layer and it appears even sorting addons is now a breeze.

Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11

By Liam Dawe, 28 Oct 2020

Collabora have been doing presentations during the Open Source Summit, with one particular talk from Gabriel Krisman Bertazi on the "State of Linux Gaming" being quite interesting. Plus Collabora are hiring.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 5.20 development release is out now

By Liam Dawe, 24 Oct 2020

Breaking down barriers towards closer Windows compatibility, the Wine compatibility layer team have released the Wine 5.20 development release along with new features and fixes.

Steam Play Proton 5.13-1 Linux compatibility layer up and ready for testing

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2020

Valve has released Proton 5.13-1 for testing, this compatibility layer for Steam Play brings with it many advancements for getting more Windows games working on Linux.