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The second Release Candidate is out for Wine 5.0

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2019

The Wine hackers have produced their second Release Candidate for the upcoming stable release of Wine 5.0.

Steam Play Proton gets turned up to 11 in the latest update

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2019

Steam Play Proton has been updated once again, dealing with a mouse issue from the last update and other improvements.

DXVK 1.5 released with D9VK merged in for D3D9 support, plus a statement on DXVK's future

By Liam Dawe, 16 Dec 2019

With the news earlier about D9VK being merged into DXVK, to make DXVK the all-in-one solution for D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan - we now have a fresh release of DXVK with it all together.

D9VK is no more as it merges with DXVK, making DXVK a D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan layer

By Liam Dawe, 16 Dec 2019

It's happened, the D9VK and DXVK projects have officially merged. This means DXVK is now the all-encompassing project to translate D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan for Wine.

D9VK, the Direct3D9 to Vulkan layer has a huge new 0.40 'Croakacola' release out

By Liam Dawe, 14 Dec 2019

For use with Wine and Steam Play Proton, D9VK is the awesome project based on DXVK which translates Direct3D9 to Vulkan for better performance. A big new release just went out.

Where there's a will there's a Wine 5.0rc1

By Liam Dawe, 14 Dec 2019

The Wine hackers have announced the first Release Candidate for the big 5.0, marking the beginning of the code freeze period where only bug fixes make it in and no new features after this.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-10 out, mouse handling improvements and Halo: The Master Chief Collection works

By Liam Dawe, 13 Dec 2019

A brand new update to Steam Play Proton has arrived ahead of the weekend with Proton 4.11-10, giving out of the box play for Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

It's already possible to play Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Linux with Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2019

I will admit I am truly surprised at how quickly people managed to find a way to run Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Linux with Steam Play.

D3D10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.4.6 released

By Liam Dawe, 3 Dec 2019

Another cleanup point-release is out for the Direct3D 10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK, with 1.4.6 bringing in some bug fixes.

The Wine 4.21 development release is now available

By Liam Dawe, 29 Nov 2019

They say Wine improves with age, well my puns certainly don't get any better so you can relax as this week I'm all out of juice for the release of Wine 4.21.

Lutris game manager 0.5.4 released with Python 3.8 support and lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2019

Managing games across multiple stores, emulators and compatibility layers doesn't need to be a hassle. Lutris takes the majority of that annoyance away and a big new release is now available.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-9 is out with a few fixes, plus a new release of Proton GE

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2019

Two Steam Play updates to share this morning! The official Proton was updated to Proton 4.11-9 and Proton GE 4.20-1 is also up.

DXVK 1.4.5 released bringing further performance improvements for D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2019

DXVK continues maturing with another exciting sounding release now available with DXVK 1.4.5, bringing in some performance improvements and plenty of bug fixes.

Don't blaze it too hard for the release of Wine 4.20

By Liam Dawe, 16 Nov 2019

Wine, that wonderful software that enables you to run Windows-only software on games on Linux has a new release out with Wine 4.20. Nice.

CodeWeavers are after a Graphics Developer for Steam Play Proton and Wine

By Liam Dawe, 13 Nov 2019

CodeWeavers, the company that helps to support development of Wine and are currently partnered up with Valve to help with Steam Play/Proton have a new Graphics Developer position open.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-8 is out with vkd3d for Direct3D 12 support

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2019

Another update to Steam Play Proton has been released this evening, which should bring with it plenty of improvements for playing Windows games on Linux.

Proton GE has another new release out with patches for GTA V and lots of updates

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2019

Proton GE, the unofficial and updated build of Proton for Steam Play has another big new release out. To help those who can't wait for Valve/CodeWeavers to update the official Proton or you need some extra fixes.

Our Wine release day puns are always in pour taste so none today for Wine 4.19

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2019

Wine, the glorious bit of software that enables people to use Windows applications and various Windows-only games on Linux has another new bottle opened up.