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Steam Play Proton 5.0-6 is out to help DOOM Eternal, Rockstar Launcher and more on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After a short Beta period to help find issues, today Valve / CodeWeavers have release the latest version of Steam Play Proton.

Linux game manager 'Lutris' has a sweet new build up - better Wine support, new DXVK handling

By Liam Dawe,
Lutris is probably in my top 5 of free and open source Linux apps, as it's made gaming outside of Steam many times easier on Linux.

Valve and CodeWeavers now offering test builds of Proton before release with Proton 5.0-6 RC1 up

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like Valve and CodeWeavers are switching up how Proton is released, with a series of test builds now being provided before a new stable release in the hopes of seeing fewer issues.

Game manager 'Lutris' has a new release with initial Humble Bundle and VKD3D support

By Liam Dawe,
Lutris, the excellent free and open source game manager for Linux has a fresh release up with some brand new and big features that made it in.

DXVK the D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer 1.6 update out

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK, the almighty translation layer that takes D3D 9/10/11 and spits out Vulkan, that paired up with Wine allows many Windows-only games to perform will on Linux has a new update out.

Ray Tracing comes to the Vulkan API officially with new extensions - new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta out

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group has today announced that the cross-platform Vulkan graphics API now has official Ray Tracing support with their new provisional extensions.

Proton GE 5.4 released for Steam Play on Linux with Warframe gamepad fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Proton GE, the custom-built fork of Proton for Steam Play that adds in numerous extra tweaks and fixes has another release now available.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-4 is up fixing Origin, GTA V, Denuvo and more

By Liam Dawe,
Another new release of Steam Play's Proton software is up and while small in number of changes, it's quite a mighty update overall.

Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer 'DXVK' version 1.5.5 is out with lots of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Philip Rebohle today announced the release of DXVK 1.5.5, bringing with it plenty of bug fixes for this impressive Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer.

LunarG's Vulkan developer survey results out now - Vulkan also turns 4

By Liam Dawe,
LunarG, the software company that Valve sponsors who work on building out the ecosystem for the Vulkan API recently conducted a Vulkan developer survey with the results out now.

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over - here's the winners

By Liam Dawe,
The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over, there were thousands of votes across many categories and we have the winners in.

Proton 5.0 for Steam Play released - it's a huge update (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
CodeWeavers and Valve today released the big one many have been waiting for! Proton 5.0 for Steam Play is now live.

Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK has another small release up

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh release of the Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer, DXVK, was released today which continues their cycle of bug fixing.

MangoHud, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux.

NVIDIA driver 440.59 released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The first stable driver release of 2020, yesterday NVIDIA put out the 440.59 driver for Linux users.

Steam hits a new all-time high for users online, Linux share rises

By Liam Dawe,
Two quick bits of Steam news to cover this wonderful Monday morning. As expected, Steam does still appear to be growing.

Proton GE has a fresh new build out with lots of updates and special fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Proton GE, the unofficial build of Proton mainly for use with Steam Play (but you can use it outside Steam too - like with Lutris) has a big new release out with Proton 5.0 GE 1.

Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.5.3 is out fixing up a 'potentially' critical D3D9 regression

By Liam Dawe,
A small but needed release of the Direct 3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer has been put out today fixing up some issues.

Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK version 1.5.2 is up, lots of fixes for games

By Liam Dawe,
The DXVK team have released another new version of their Direct 3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer with 1.5.2 now available.

The sixth Release Candidate for Wine 5.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine team have released a sixth and perhaps final Release Candidate for the upcoming stable release of Wine 5.0.
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