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The February 2021 round-up here's our top articles

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for February 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!

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation lib VKD3D-Proton 2.2 is out, prepares DirectX Raytracing

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2021

We just recently had the DXVK 1.8 release for Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan and now we also have the VKD3D-Proton 2.2 release landing as well.

Portal 2 from Valve gets a big update with Vulkan support from DXVK

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2021

Portal 2, the classic first-person puzzle game from Valve available on Steam, just had a huge upgrade come out of nowhere along with Vulkan API support powered by the DXVK project.

D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.8 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2021

Usually used for Wine and Steam Play Proton, the translation DXVK layer that moves Direct3D 9, Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11 to Vulkan has a new release available with DXVK 1.8.

Lutris game manager v0.5.8.3 out, requires contributors to agree to a CLA

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

For regular Linux gamers, Lutris is pretty much a household name by now. For those that aren't - Lutris is a game manager allowing you to sort through all your games from various stores.

Wine compatibility layer version 6.0 released

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

Wine, the compatibility layer designed to run Windows games and applications on other systems has a big 6.0 release now officially available with thousands of improvements.

Lutris game manager starts off 2021 with a sweet small update

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2021

Lutris, the free and open source all-in-one solution to keep your games from different sources together on Linux has a fresh release out to begin 2021.

Portal 2: Desolation standalone mod gets a first proper teaser, coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

Will the cake be a lie here too? Portal 2: Desolation is an upcoming very high-quality looking mod and they have revealed the first look.

Steam Play Proton 5.13-3 rolls out restoring controller hotplugging

By Liam Dawe, 8 Dec 2020

Valve and CodeWeavers have rolled out another smaller update to the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer.

Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.7.3 released

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2020

The open source DXVK project which translates D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan for use with Linux and the Wine compatibility layer has a new release up.

Vulkan Ray Tracing becomes official with Vulkan 1.2.162 (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2020

The day has arrived, along with the release of Vulkan 1.2.162 being tagged in the Vulkan-Docs repository on GitHub the Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now officially released.