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For those on NVIDIA, the 396.54.05 driver seems to have some noteworthy performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2018

It seems NVIDIA have been working on some improvements to their Linux driver, as the 396.54.05 beta driver seems to have improved performance in various games.

DXVK 0.72 is out, bringing more configuration options and game fixes

By Liam Dawe, 14 Sep 2018

DXVK 0.72 just got released and this version brings along some handy extra configuration options as well as some specific game fixes.

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Wine

Valve have now pushed out all the recent beta changes in Steam Play's Proton to everyone

By Liam Dawe, 13 Sep 2018

For those of you sticking with the stable channel of Steam Play's Proton system, Valve have today rolled out all the recent beta changes for everyone.

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Game porter Ethan Lee gives his thoughts on Valve's Steam Play and Proton

By Liam Dawe, 12 Sep 2018

For today's article I spoke to Ethan Lee, developer of FNA and who has ported something around 40+ titles to Linux. Here's what he thinks about Valve's Steam Play.

An interview with the developer of DXVK, part of what makes Valve's Steam Play tick

By Liam Dawe, 11 Sep 2018

An interview with Philip Rebohle, the creator of DXVK that's used in Valve's Proton.

Valve have updated the Beta of Steam Play which fixes VR games, fullscreen improvements and more

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2018

Another Beta version of Proton is available for Valve's Steam Play for those who wish to give it a go with the latest fixes.

A multi-vendor extension for transform feedback in Vulkan is being worked on to help DXVK and others

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2018

Commenting on an issue on the Vulkan-Ecosystem GitHub page, an NVIDIA developer has mentioned how transform feedback support will come to Vulkan.

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DXVK 0.71 is out for Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 in Wine, minor reduction in CPU overhead and more

By Liam Dawe, 2 Sep 2018

DXVK, one of the projects that makes up Valve's Steam Play that enables Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 in Wine has a new version out.

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Wine

Valve are already pushing ahead with updates to Steam Play's Proton with a beta channel

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2018

Valve are now offering a chance to test a beta of the next version of Proton in their Steam Play system.

Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop

By Liam Dawe, 23 Aug 2018

It seems there was a bit of a woops with the Beta release of Valve's new Steam Play system Proton, which is now fixed.

Valve officially confirm a new version of 'Steam Play' which includes a modified version of Wine

By Liam Dawe, 21 Aug 2018

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As we speculated previously, Valve have now officially announced their new version of 'Steam Play' for Linux gaming using a modified distribution of Wine, called Proton.

DXVK 0.70 is out with support for Direct3D 10 over Vulkan in Wine

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2018

DXVK continues the amazing progress towards helping Linux gamers play their favourite Windows-only games on Linux.

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Wine

Valve may be adding support for using compatibility tools for playing games on different operating systems

By Liam Dawe, 14 Aug 2018

Reddit seems to be buzzing with information from SteamDB showing indications that Valve might be adding support for compatibility tools to enable you to play games on operating systems they weren't designed for, like Wine.

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DXVK expands with Direct3D 10 over Vulkan in Wine, also info on the new Direct3D 9-to-11 project

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2018

There's so many incredible things going on around Wine right now it's hard to keep track. DXVK is now expanding to support Direct3D 10 over Vulkan in Wine. There's also a new Direct3D 9-to-11 project to convert Direct3D 9 programs to Direct3D 11.

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Wine

DXVK 0.65 is out for Vulkan-based D3D11 in Wine, fixes for Monster Hunter World, Yakuza 0

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2018

DXVK continues to astound me in both the speed of development and just how much it can do. This Vulkan-based layer to provide D3D11 in Wine has matured with another new release.

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Wine

The next release of DXVK for Vulkan-based D3D11 with Wine will use per-game configuration files

By Liam Dawe, 9 Aug 2018

The developer of the very interesting DXVK project has mentioned that the next release is going to do away with environment variables in favour of per-game configuration files.

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Wine

DXVK, the Vulkan-based layer for Direct3D 11 with Wine has another fresh release

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2018

The amazing progress with DXVK continues! This Vulkan-based compatibility layer for Direct3D 11 with Wine just put out version 0.64 with fixes for Dragonball Xenoverse 2, Final Fantasy XV and more.

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Wine

Wine 3.13 is out as well as DXVK 0.63 for D3D11 with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jul 2018

First of all the latest Wine development release is out with Wine 3.13 and on top of that DXVK for Vulkan-based D3D11 in Wine also release version 0.63.