Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, a project based on Wine aimed at enabling the running of Windows gaming applications on Linux through the Steam catalog. This marks the stable release of the 11.0 branch, with developments distributed under the BSD license.
Proton allows Windows gaming applications to run directly on the Steam Linux client. It incorporates implementations of DirectX 8/9/10/11 (via the DXVK package) and DirectX 12 (via vkd3d-proton), translating DirectX calls to the Vulkan API. Proton also offers enhanced game controller support, full-screen mode capabilities, and support for multi-threaded games through mechanisms like “esync” and “futex/fsync”.
Notable changes in the latest version of Proton include:
- Synchronization with Wine 11.0 release.
- Update of DXVK to version 2.7.1 and VKD3D-Proton to April 10 status.
- Updates to wine-mono 11.0.0, vkd3d 1.19, dxvk-nvapi 0.9.1, and Xalia 0.4.9.
- Integration of Steamworks SDK 1.64.
- Utilization of the FEX 2605 emulator for x86 games on ARM64EC systems.
- Addition of support for various games including Blaite, Breath of Fire IV, DCS World Steam Edition, and more.
- Resolution of issues in games like Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Cyberpunk 2077, No Man’s Sky, and many others.
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