Today we have the first bug-fix update for DXVK since the big 1.0 last month. It's not a huge release but as always it's a good one.

It's the weekend again and that means another episode of the Linux Gaming News Punch, a bite-sized podcast giving those with little time a chance to keep up. Coming in at just under 8 minutes, here is Episode 3.

Just before the weekend appears, we have the brand new Proton 3.16-8 beta available for Valve's Steam Play. This release includes some mighty fine fixes and updates.

Since the first episode was so well received, here's the second episode of the Linux Gaming News Punch, a bite-sized look at some interesting Linux gaming news in both video and audio-only forms.

d9vk, from developer Joshua Ashton who works for both CodeWeavers and the game developer Puny Human, is a new personal project aimed at running Direct3D 9 over Vulkan.

The day has finally arrived for the DXVK project to put on its big boy pants, as it has hit the 1.0 release and it's full of interesting changes.

Two bits of NVIDIA news for you today, not only have they released a new stable driver, they've also put out their latest GPU with the GTX 1660.

NVIDIA have again pushed out a brand new Vulkan beta driver, with version 418.31.03 now available with game fixes and new extensions.

Valve have pushed out a Steam Play beta update with Proton 3.16-7 now available for testing. Lots of fixes!

That some titles perform better, from an FPS number perspective, when using DXVK is clear, which has lead to some people asking why this is the case. It's the why that I'd like to discuss here; why DXVK is a winner in some cases, why native wins in others, and some of the drawbacks of each approach.

Hot on the heels of Wine 4.0, the excellent DXVK project has another fresh release available this weekend.

It seems things aren't all rosy between CodeWeavers and DXVK, as developer Henri Verbeet has written into the Wine Development mailing list to give more details.

Lutris, the rather advanced game library manager is currently going through some major improvements with the 0.5.0 release that's in Beta. The latest new feature, is a rather nifty one.

You might remember, that back in September last year I talked a little about Lutris and Overwatch together and how it was working well. Here’s an update on how it's been going.

For those brave enough to attempt to get more Windows games to run through Steam Play, Protontricks is a handy solution and it's been forked.

Now that Steam has the ability officially to override a Linux game and run it through Steam Play instead, let's take a quick look at some differences in performance.

DXVK, the excellent project that Valve has been funding has a fresh brew out to continue the exciting progress made.

Here's a fun statistic for you today! Steam Play, Valve's fork of Wine which includes DXVK has recently hit 500 titles rated as "Platinum" when going by ProtonDB reports.

How-To: Enable Valve's Proton Compatibility Tool in SteamOS, since the option isn't actually included directly in SteamOS yet.

Today, Valve put out the last Steam Play update of 2018 with Proton 3.16-6 beta now available for fun times.