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Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements
Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games…
VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan
…VKD3D is what's used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve's downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton). VKD3D 2.0 brings new features and improvements to its HLSL…
Wait… what?! Valve releases drivers so you can install Windows 11 on a Steam Machine, whilst also improving Proton so you never have to leave Linux.
…In better news, Valve has also made having to use Windows 11 less necessary for a lot of games by continually updating its Proton compatibility layer, which allows you to run Windows…
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Amazon GameLift Streams Now Offers Service-managed Shader Caching - AWS
…Amazon GameLift Streams then replicates the cache to compatible stream groups and locations, and loads it automatically in future sessions. You can monitor shader cache status and storage size using the ListApplicationShaderCaches…
CachyOS just dethroned Arch Linux on ProtonDB, and Linux gamers are finally noticing
…Sign in to your XDA account In case you missed it, CachyOS recently toppled Arch Linux as the OS with the most reports sent to ProtonDB . On its own, it doesn't…
Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS, even if Windows owns the Steam charts
…Proton and Steam Deck turned Linux into a practical gaming option for millions—compatibility now matters. Valve's Steam Machine push could make Windows background infrastructure—Steam becomes the defining layer. On…
Valve's Steam Machine launches in 2026: Everything we know so far - Engadget
…For Windows games and everything else, it'll be able to use Steam's built-in Proton compatibility layer to translate games to Linux, just like the Steam Deck does. Proton is…
DXVK 3.0.2: better GPU hang debugging for AMD and NVIDIA
…When Direct3D games run via Vulkan on Linux, Proton works, and old Windows titles do not immediately crash in protest, DXVK is often somewhere in the engine room. With version 3.0…
SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows
…So, Valve decided to take the onus off the developers and instead create Proton, a compatibility layer. With Proton, Linux distros could run Windows games without the developers needing to lift a…