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AMD RADV gets feature to help emulation and translation layers

By Liam Dawe,
1
Some fun news for AMD GPU owners with the open source RADV (Vulkan) Mesa driver, as it recently gained support for fragment shader interlock. This will be useful for emulation and translation layers.
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The open source NVIDIA NVK driver is coming along well

By Liam Dawe,
8
A project I have a very keen eye on is NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver developed by the community (not NVIDIA), and it seems like progress on it is going rather well.
GE-Proton

GE-Proton 8-4 is out now with game fixes and other upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
2
GE-Proton 8-4 is the latest release of the community-made compatibility layer for Steam Deck and desktop Linux gaming. Here's what's new and changed.
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Proton Experimental update fixes "many" games on Steam Deck and desktop Linux

By Liam Dawe,
3
Valve has put out a small update to Proton Experimental, which should fix many games due to a regression that was hiding away.
Proton

Valve upgrades Proton Experimental with a number of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
5
Today there's a new build of Proton Experimental available for Steam Deck and desktop Linux gamers, with it Valve has given us a bunch of bug fixes.
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VKD3D-Proton v2.9 out now with multiple performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
1
Just before the weekend hit VKD3D-Proton v2.9 was release, giving some big improvements to the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer used in Proton on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.
Lutris v0.5.13

Lutris v0.5.13 adds Proton support, itch and battle.net integration

By Liam Dawe,
5
The latest release of the all-in-one game manager Lutris is here, with v0.5.13 bringing with it some important features like new store integrations.
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NVIDIA open sources more of RTX Remix with v0.2

By Liam Dawe,
8
NVIDIA has released version 0.2 of RTX Remix today, which on top of lots of improvements also opens up their NVIDIA RTX Remix Bridge.
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DXVK 2.2 released supporting D3D11On12, plus improvements for game launchers

By Liam Dawe,
4
DXVK translates Direct3D 9 / 10 and 11 into Vulkan for Proton and Wine, used on Linux desktop and Steam Deck for gaming.
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Direct3D 8 to Vulkan translator D8VK 'production-ready' 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
6
D8VK translates Direct3D 8 to Vulkan, just like DXVK for Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 used with Wine and Proton on Linux and Steam Deck. Fantastic to see the progress on this.
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GE-Proton 8-2 is out now fixing Shatterline, various Daedalic games and more

By Liam Dawe,
0
GE-Proton 8-2 is the latest release of the community-made version of Proton, the translation layer from Valve for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
GE-Proton 8-1

GE-Proton 8-1 released, mainly pulling in Proton 8 upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
0
GE-Proton has a new release out with 8-1, which is mainly pulling in a whole bunch of improvements from Proton 8 and Proton Experimental.
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FNA gets Direct3D 11 support on Linux using DXVK and vkd3d

By Liam Dawe,
3
Some fun for game developers and game porters looking at Linux and Steam Deck here, as FNA has released a major upgrade that has early support for Direct3D 11 on Linux.
Proton Experimental

Proton Experimental for Steam Deck & Linux upgraded with Proton 8

By Liam Dawe,
9
As expected after the recent big release of Proton 8, Valve has now also upgraded Proton Experimental which is now based on Proton 8 plus a whole bunch more.
Lutris

Linux and Steam Deck game manager Lutris has a fresh Beta out

By Liam Dawe,
11
Lutris is an all-in-one game manager to brings your games from different places under one roof, and a second Beta is now available for v0.5.13.
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Valve rolls out Proton 8.0 to further improve Steam Deck and Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe,
16
After a bit of a wait since the Wine 8.0 release, Valve has now released Proton 8.0, the latest version of their Windows translation layer for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
MangoHud

MangoHud performance overlay version v0.6.9 is out now as a nice update

By Liam Dawe,
20
It's been a while since the last release but a nice update to the performance hud and benchmarking tool MangoHud is out now. This is the tool used for the performance stats on Steam Deck.
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GE-Proton 7-55 released with an essential fix for Easy Anti-Cheat issues

By Liam Dawe,
0
GE-Proton version 7-55 was released a few days ago, and it's an essential update for those of you preferring it to the official Valve Proton on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 announced, plus RTX Remix released

By Liam Dawe,
8
NVIDIA have revealed the GeForce RTX 4070 as the latest in their Ada Lovelace architecture lineup. Plus, there's an initial release of RTX Remix.
EVERSPACE 2

EVERSPACE 2 out now, devs focus on Proton for Linux - Steam Deck optimizations planned

By Liam Dawe,
101
ROCKFISH Games have now launched EVERSPACE 2 and it looks awesome! One of their original Kickstarter promises did not make it though, with Native Linux support being cancelled as they will support it with Proton instead.
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