… Even so, it's the first time the integration has lived inside Valve's official Proton beta stack rather than as a side experiment. Steam games can even run on a modded Nintendo Switch thanks to the latest Proton and FEX updates. …
… And if you're a power user who wants the latest and greatest, Proton-GE is a community-maintained fork that rebases to more recent Wine versions faster than Valve's official releases. It also includes additional patches and features that haven't made it into Proton proper yet. …
… Winlator stacks Wine on top of x86/x86 64 translation layers like Box86 and Box64, with forks increasingly experimenting with components like Proton builds, FEXCore, Mesa Turnip, DXVK, and VKD3D. …
… That was until Proton came around. …
… I haven't tested those exact numbers on that exact hardware, but I've tested, more or less, the same chip running through two translation layers. In those tests, I was able to get 50 FPS in Cyberpunk, so the claim doesn't really strike me as unrealistic. …
… Before Proton, Linux gaming was dependent on Wine or community-built tools like Lutris to translate Windows games. Proton was the magic ingredient that gradually made around 90% of Steam games compatible with Linux. …
… It downgrades the Steam client to a build from before mid-April, since newer ones crash with illegal instruction errors on the hardware, and it patches DXVK-Sarek and VKD3D into Proton because the Tegra X1 only goes up to Vulkan 1.2. …
… He closely follows the Windows Insider program and tests new Insider builds to discover upcoming experimental features and upgrades. His past work includes long-term collaborations with reputed publications like Tom's Hardware , and Windows Latest . …
… Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path. …
… This matters because of how Proton works. When you run a Windows game on Linux through Proton, the game's DRM still executes. …