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Faster Zombies to Steam Deck: The History of Valve and Linux Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jul 2021

Well, Valve and Linux Gaming together have come a very long way since the early blogs posts about getting Left 4 Dead 2 running fast on Linux to the new Steam Deck. But just how far have they come? Let's do a little reminiscing.

A chat with Joshua Strobl of the Solus Linux distribution

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jul 2021

With Solus seeming to go from strength to strength along with a recent big release, it was time to sit down and have a chat with one of the team about the Linux distribution.

Proton Experimental gets a small update and fixes Quake Champions crashes

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2021

Ready for some more testing? Valve has updated Proton Experimental once again with some new bits, including solving some crashes with Quake Champions.

NVIDIA 470.57.02 released as the next stable Linux driver (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2021

On top of today NVIDIA revealing RTX and DLSS from Arm, plus the DLSS SDK updated for native Linux games they've now released the first stable driver of the 470 series with 470.57.02. ARTICLE UPDATE: a fresh legacy driver was issued too.

Stadia gets more generous revenue models plus a porting toolkit for DirectX to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2021

At the recent Google for Games Developer Summit it seems that Google actually still has quite a clear focus on Stadia and they're trying to entice more developers to bring their games over.

Game manager Lutris 0.5.8.4 out as a small fix-up before the next major release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

The free and open source game manager Lutris has a fresh release up, although it's mostly a fix-up release as work is ongoing for the next major release due soon.

NVIDIA puts out a new release of their open source NVAPI interface

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

With the absolutely huge NVIDIA 470 driver release now out the door, NVIDIA has just put up a fresh release of their open source NVAPI interface.

A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through June 2021

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for June 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!

A busy weekend ahead perhaps? Steam Play Proton 6.3-5 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2021

Valve announced the latest version of the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer is out now with 6.3-5. Update - 26/06/21: Proton Experimental also saw an update.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games sees a small bug fix release ahead of the big 1.8

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2021

Heroic Games Launcher is an application built on top of the a command-line client called Legendary, and Heroic has a fresh bug fix release out to help ahead of a major release.

Steam Play Proton 6.3-5 has a first Release Candidate out with lots of changes

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2021

Time for a weekend of testing as the next version of Steam Play Proton is closing in with Proton 6.3-5 having a first Release Candidate now available.

Latest Steam Client Beta improves Proton startup times, fixes login issue

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2021

Been having trouble logging into Steam lately? You're not alone, it seems there was a problem with the auto-login which has now been solved.

Left 4 Dead 2 updated with Vulkan support thanks to DXVK

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2021

We've only just seen a new release of the Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK, and now it's powering Left 4 Dead 2 with a fresh free upgrade out now.

Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.9 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2021

After a while between major releases, the DXVK project has splashed onto the scene again with a juicy new release ripe for picking with DXVK 1.9 out now.

What we want to see from the possible SteamPal handheld from Valve

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2021

You've all seen the rumours by now, and apparent confirmation from Ars that Valve has been working on the SteamPal, a Linux powered handheld that could be released this year. Here's a short list of what we want from it.

Proton 6.10 GE is out as a recommended upgrade for users of this community-built version

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jun 2021

Proton GE, the community-built version of Proton has a fresh major upgrade with Proton-6.10-GE-1 out now. This is also a recommended upgrade by the developer.

Proton Experimental prepares for NVIDIA DLSS, optional NVAPI and more game fixes

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2021

Valve and CodeWeavers have released another fresh Proton Experimental build for testing upcoming features of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux gaming with Steam Play.

There's experimental patches to bring Vulkan Ray Tracing to older AMD hardware on Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2021

Want to see how Ray Tracing would run on Linux using the Mesa RADV driver on an older GPU? Well, thanks to developer Joshua Ashton that's starting to be possible.

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2021

NVIDIA did a big splash at Computex 2021 with the expected announcement of two new top-end GPUs and quite a big surprise for Linux gaming with the official inclusion of NVIDIA DLSS for Proton.

Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 30

By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2021

Guess what? We're back again! The dynamic duo returns for another casual and frank chat about Linux and Linux Gaming topics across many different areas in the industry.

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