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Valve posted Proton 8, the latest version of its Wine-based compatibility layer, which is one of the mainstays of Linux Gaming in general and Steam Deck in particular.
Valve posted Proton 8, the latest version of its Wine-based compatibility layer, which is one of the mainstays of Linux Gaming in general and Steam Deck in particular. The company behind Steam did not give up after the failure of Steam Machines and continued to improve Linux support, leading to the scenario we all know today.
Proton 8 doesn’t come with groundbreaking news, which is normal considering that it’s been in development for years and is very consolidated, so this time there is an expanded list of officially compatible titles and the correction of a significant number of bugs affecting the launcher , specific games and specific environments. The previous major version stood out by including support for Easy Anti-Cheat, but this time we find ourselves with an episode of “more of the same, but better”. In any case, consistency is important here, and Valve has more than delivered there.
As we have already said, one of the two main innovations is expanding the list of officially supported games that are now marked as playable. We say officially compatible because some of them may already work, and in the worst case you can always fall back to Proton Glorious Eggroll, the main fork of the compatibility layer. Without further ado, let’s get down to revealing the list:
When it comes to fixes, the Proton 8 has Fixed a bug that caused Football Manager 2023 to crash performance regression issue in Mortal Kombat X when trying to return from player profile, Ray tracing in Crysis Remastered, a regression that caused Minecraft Dungeons to freeze when disconnected from multiplayer and a crash caused by the 2K launcher updater. It also brought improved full screen support for The Last Blade 2, improved Force FeedBack compatibility in BeamNG and Forza Horizon 5improved multiplayer support in Company of Heroes III as well as improved pause/resume functionality when launching Tiny Tina’s Wonderland on Steam Deck.
Proton is not a development that starts from scratch, but is based on Wine, a well-known reimplementation of the Windows API published as free software and available for Linux, macOS and other Unix and Unix systems. The new major version of Proton is based on Wine 8 and has been supplemented with DXVK 2.1-4, VKD3D-Proton 2.8-84, DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.2 and wine-mono 7.4.1.
Configure Proton 8 in Steam settings for Linux.
Far from what many people believe, Wine and Proton are not emulators, but rather can be defined as compatibility layers that are responsible for translating system calls from Windows to Linux. (or to another system such as macOS, ChromeOS or FreeBSD). Similar is the situation of DXVK and VKD3D-Proton. The former translates Direct3D version 9, 10 and 11 instructions into Vulkan, while the latter handles the same with the twelfth version of the Microsoft API. Software that runs on top of Wine/Proton doesn’t run emulated, but runs natively, so the correct term would be more translation-based.
To check the compatibility of a game on Linux with Proton, it never hurts to look at its file on ProtonDB, a website where users rate their experience under the above conditions. In addition to the note, it is possible to find resources here that allow you to gain compatibility or improve the experience, which is usually done by specifying the launch parameters through the Game Properties in the Steam client for Linux or in the Steam Deck.
Setting up Proton 8 in the Steam Linux client is as simple as opening Settings, going to the “Steam Play” section, checking the “Enable Steam Play for all other titles” box, and selecting Proton 8.0-1 (or a version updated after while) in the dropdown list in the “Run other titles with” field. After completing these steps, you need to click OK and restart the application.
Source: Muy Computer
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