Released the new version of Proton 4.11-3 and Proton-i a project in favor of Wine is presented

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Juuso Alasuutari specialist in the development of audio processing systems for Linux (author jackdbus and LASH), unveiled the Proton-i package, where this project is intended to port the most current code from Valve's Proton project to the most recent version of Wine.

This means you don't have to wait for major new releases from Valve. Currently, a Proton variant based on Wine 4.13 has already been proposed, which is identical in functionality to Proton 4.11-2 (Proton's main project uses Wine 4.11).

About Proton-i

The main idea of ​​Proton-i is to provide the ability to use patches made in the latest versions of Wine (several hundred changes are released with each release), which can help launch games that previously had issues.

Some problems are supposed can be fixed in new versions of Wine and some can be solved with Proton patches. The combination of these fixes potentially makes it possible to achieve a higher quality of games than when using the new Wine and Proton separately.

It is important to remember that Proton is developed by Valve and this is based on the achievements of the Wine project and aims to ensure the launch of Linux-based game applications created for Windows and with the help of Steam.

Proton allows you to directly run game applications that are only available for Windows on the Steam Linux client.

Package includes DirectX 9 implementation (based on D9VK), DirectX 10/11 (based on DXVK) and 12 (based on vkd3d), working through the translation of DirectX calls to the Vulkan API.

How to install Proton-i?

For those who are interested in being able to install Proton-i, We can do it on our installation that we already have from Steam.

The first thing we have to do is download the latest Proton-i package available, which in these cases is Proton-i 4.13-3, this can be obtained from the link below.

In this case We can do it from the terminal by typing the following command:

wget https://github.com/imaami/Proton/releases/download/proton-i-4.13-3/Proton-i-4.13-3.tar.xz

Done this, now vWe go to our Steam directory, which is within the following path:

cd /home/$USER/.steam/steam

Here We are going to create the following directory with the name "compatibilitytools.d":

mkdir compatibilitytools.d

Now we will have to unzip the content of the file that we downloaded at the beginning and we are going to place the directory obtained from the file, inside the folder "compatibilitytools.d".

This can be done from your file manager (graphical method) or from the terminal by positioning yourself in the main directory where the downloaded file directory is:

cp Proton-i-4.13-3 /home/$USER/.steam/steam

Now we will have to open our Steam client. In case you have it running you will have to close it and reopen it.

Done this now you can select within the Steam versions to "Proton-i 4.13-3" such as the Steam Play compatibility tool.

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About the new version of Proton 4.11.-3

Valve recently released the new version of the Proton 4.11-3 project where is this new version comes with pretty good news for gameswell now support is provided for direct access to game consoles without the use of an emulation layer, which has significantly improved the quality of work with various game controllers.

On the other hand the D9VK layer (Direct3D 9 implementation over the Vulkan API) has been updated to version 0.20, which includes support for the d3d9.samplerAnisotropy, d3d9.maxAvailableMemory, d3d9.floatEmulation, GetRasterStatus, ProcessVertices, TexBem, TexM3x3Tex options and functions.

Also in the ad it is highlighted that crashes were fixed and when using fsync patches, as well as the addition of the "WINEFSYNC_SPINCOUNT" setting, which can be useful to improve the performance of some games.

Also we can find that support was added for the latest versions of Steamworks and OpenVR SDK, as well as improved support for very old VR games.

Fixed crashes when entering text in some games based on the Unreal Engine 4, such as Mordhau and Deep Rock Galactic.


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