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Quench that weekend thirst with the release of Wine 5.14

By Liam Dawe, 1 Aug 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2020

The Wine team have produced another development release of the Windows compatibility layer with Wine 5.13 going up on July 17.

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Halo 3 and Halo Reach may need this audio fix on Linux with Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2020

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'

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jul 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jun 2020

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.