Proton 9.0: Valve’s Latest Release Allows Linux Users to Play Windows Games

Valve Company published stable release of the project Proton 9.0, based on the code base of the Wine project and aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. Project developments spread under BSD license.

Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only gaming applications in the Steam Linux client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX 9/10/11 (based on the DXVK package) and DirectX 12 (based on vkd3d-proton), working via translation of DirectX calls to the Vulkan API, provides improved support for game controllers and the ability to use full-screen mode regardless of the screen resolutions supported in games. To increase the performance of multi-threaded games, the “esync” (Eventfd Synchronization) and “futex/fsync” mechanisms are supported.

Among the changes in new version Proton:

• Synced with Wine 9.0 release. The accumulated specific patches have been moved from Proton to upstream and are now included in the main part of Wine.
• The DXVK layer, which translates calls to the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 2.3.
• VKD3D-Proton, a fork of vkd3d created by Valve to improve Direct3D 12 support in Proton, has been updated to version 2.11.1.
• The Dxvk-nvapi package with the implementation of the NVAPI library on top of DXVK has been updated to version 0.6.4.
• Added support for Steamworks SDK 1.59.
• Added game support:
  • Aisling and the Tavern of Elves
  • Bloody Walls
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge
  • Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun and Firestorm
  • Dinogen Online
  • George McGeehan Gamer Hero
  • Insanity's Blade
  • Lord of the Rings: Gollum
  • Photography Simulator Demo
  • Road to Vostok Demo
  • Snares of Ruin 2
  • Sonic Colors: Ultimate
  • The Finals
  • True Reporter. Mystery of Mistwood
  • WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT