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

By Liam Dawe,
11
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.
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Steam Play Proton 6.3-5 has a first Release Candidate out with lots of changes

By Liam Dawe,
11
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.
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Latest Steam Client Beta improves Proton startup times, fixes login issue

By Liam Dawe,
2
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.
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Left 4 Dead 2 updated with Vulkan support thanks to DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
18
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.
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Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.9 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
13
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.
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What we want to see from the possible SteamPal handheld from Valve

By Liam Dawe,
84
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.
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Proton 6.10 GE is out as a recommended upgrade for users of this community-built version

By Liam Dawe,
1
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.
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Proton Experimental prepares for NVIDIA DLSS, optional NVAPI and more game fixes

By Liam Dawe,
9
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.
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There's experimental patches to bring Vulkan Ray Tracing to older AMD hardware on Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
1
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.
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NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced

By Liam Dawe,
43
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.
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Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 30

By Liam Dawe,
3
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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Days Gone makes with the working on Linux with Proton Experimental

By Liam Dawe,
13
Proton Experimental does it again! Want to play the new Windows release of the previously PlayStation exclusive Days Gone right on your Linux box? Now you can.
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NVIDIA update their NVAPI open source interface helping "Windows emulation environments"

By Liam Dawe,
10
Back in July 2020, NVIDIA announced the open source release of various parts of the NVAPI interface to help "Windows emulation environments" and they've now produced a much newer version.
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Prepare for bigger Portal 2 modded levels with a new update removing limits

By Liam Dawe,
5
Valve have again updated the incredible first-person puzzler Portal 2, this time the update is quite small (comparatively to the Vulkan update) but still mighty.
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Proton GE gets some big updates but you may need to remove old Wine prefixes

By Liam Dawe,
19
Proton GE (GloriousEggroll) is a community-built version of the Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux through Steam Play.
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Portal Stories: Mel lands Vulkan support with DXVK in the latest stable update

By Liam Dawe,
7
After a short Beta period that saw a few issues, the team behind Portal Stories: Mel have now release the latest stable build which includes Vulkan support for Linux.
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Vulkan gets a new extension to aid API-translation layers like OpenGL on top of Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
0
The Vulkan API has been updated once again with the latest 1.2.177 spec update available, and curiously it pulls in a new extension to help API translation layers.
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Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 29

By Liam Dawe,
1
We're back, we're early this time! As usual, it's a very casual and frank chat between two friends (myself - Liam) and GOL contributor / Linux livestreamer Samsai about many different Linux-related topics.
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Vulkan 1.2.176 spec update with VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta

By Liam Dawe,
0
The Khronos Group continues tweaking and expanding Vulkan with the 1.2.176 specification update out, which includes a new extension and NVIDIA have already hooked up support.
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Portal Stories: Mel gets Vulkan support on Linux in a new Beta

By Liam Dawe,
3
Portal Stories: Mel, an extremely popular and highly rated mod for Portal 2 just had a new Beta pushed out which adds in Vulkan support for Linux.
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