Wine 5.15 is out with XACT work and Direct Input improvements
Another two weeks and another development release of Wine has been let out to breathe, here's the highlights of Wine 5.15 that will eventually become Wine 6.0.
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Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.7.1 is out, lots of game fixes
After a few months since 1.7 went out, DXVK 1.7.1 is now live to further improve Direct3D to Vulkan translation.
You can now support Wine Staging directly on Patreon
Wine Staging, the highly experimental area where all the latest (and often not "greatest") code comes in for Wine testing now has a Patreon so you can support it directly.
Quench that weekend thirst with the release of Wine 5.14
The Wine team today announced the released of Wine 5.14, the next development release on the long road to Wine 6.0.
It's now easier than ever to play STAR WARS: The Old Republic on Linux
With EA continuing to dump their older games onto Steam, the popular MMO STAR WARS: The Old Republic is now available thanks to Steam Play Proton it's easier than ever to play it on Linux.
Linux distro Fedora 33 may get DXVK as the default for Wine
If you make use of the Wine compatibility layer on Fedora, it seems the upcoming Fedora 33 release may end up defaulting to DXVK for better performance.
Linux game manager Lutris gets a small update for Direct3D 12 using VKD3D-Proton
The free and open source game manager Lutris had a small update focusing on having better Direct3D 12 support on Linux thanks to it now using VKD3D-Proton.
Worms Armageddon gets a 21 year update, should work better with Wine and Proton
The classic Team17 game Worms Armageddon, originally released in 1999 and to this day remains very popular recently turned 21 and a big anniversary update is out - it's even nice news for Linux gamers.
Wine 5.13 development release is up, here's the highlights
The Wine team have produced another development release of the Windows compatibility layer with Wine 5.13 going up on July 17.
Halo 3 and Halo Reach may need this audio fix on Linux with Steam Play Proton
With the Halo: The Master Chief Collection expanding thanks to the PC release of Halo 3, it came with some upgrades that for some has broken audio - here's a solution.
DirectX 12 exclusive DEATH STRANDING runs on Linux with Proton 5.0-10
Not long after the official PC release, the DirectX 12 exclusive DEATH STRANDING is now playable on Linux with the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer.
NVIDIA open sourced part of NVAPI SDK to aid 'Windows emulation environments'
NVIDIA sneakily put out a little open source release recently, with a part of the NVAPI SDK now under the MIT license.
More progress on Easy Anti-Cheat in Wine / Proton coming
With the current in-progress community development effort to get Easy Anti-Cheat working in the Wine / Proton compatibility layers, they continually hit new milestones.
VKD3D-Proton is the new official Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer for Proton
While the Proton compatibility layer already has DXVK for translating DirectX 9/10/11 into Vulkan, VKD3D-Proton has become the official version for translating Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan.
Proton GE compatibility layer has a big new release up
Proton GE, the community-built fork of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux has a big new release out.
Wine 5.12 is out - better RawInput and WebSocket API support
The Wine compatibility layer continues progressing, with the latest development release Wine 5.12 out now.
Wine (so Proton eventually) takes another step towards Easy Anti-Cheat working
Recently we highlighted the ongoing unofficial work to get Easy Anti-Cheat working in Wine (so Steam Play Proton then too) and it appears another major step has been achieved.
An update on Easy Anti-Cheat support for Wine and Proton
Currently, the Wine and Proton compatibility layers for Linux don't work with Easy Anti-Cheat and we have something of an update on the status for you.
Wine 5.11 is out with more NTDLL work, NetIO kernel driver started
The Wine team have today announced another of their biweekly Wine development releases with Wine 5.11 out now.
Linux Kernel patch sent in for comments to help gaming
Collabora have sent in a fresh patch for discussion to the Linux Kernel list to help Linux gaming, acting as a follow-up to their previous attempt.
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