Proton 5.0-8 Release Candidate Brings Game Fixes, Performance Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Proton 5.0-8 Release Candidate Brings Game Fixes, Performance Improvements

Valve and CodeWeavers have been preparing a new release of the Proton 5.0 series for powering Steam Play with running modern Windows games on Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Proton-5.0-8-Released

[pranav]

Is there any game free in Proton to try?

[MadWatch]

Is there any game free in Proton to try?

In Steam's preferences you can enable Proton for every games even if not officially supported.

[schmidtbag]

Is there any game free in Proton to try?

You can download and use proton without steam.

[ThanosApostolou]

Doesn't dxvk 1.7 need mesa 20.2 in order to function properly (which most distributions won't get until their next release)? That's what I understood from the release notes and that's why I've kept my wine prefixes at dxvk 1.6.1.

[Laughing1]

Doesn't dxvk 1.7 need mesa 20.2 in order to function properly (which most distributions won't get until their next release)? That's what I understood from the release notes and that's why I've kept my wine prefixes at dxvk 1.6.1.

It will work it just won't have the new feature(s).

[ix900]

Doesn't dxvk 1.7 need mesa 20.2 in order to function properly (which most distributions won't get until their next release)? That's what I understood from the release notes and that's why I've kept my wine prefixes at dxvk 1.6.1.

No. Those requirements are listed under New Vulkan extensions On supported drivers, the following extensions are now used.

DXVK should still work with older drivers and wine versions.

[ThanosApostolou]

Aaa ok I see thx guys. I misunderstood this completely. Time to update my wine prefixes to dxvk 1.7 then 😛

[andre30co]

Is there any game free in Proton to try?

dota 2 for example you can install the windows version

[loganj]

pranav or you can search demo or multi player categories. a lot of multi players games are free