Proton: Valve Takes Another Huge Step Forward With Wine 11 Integration!

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HANDHELD NEWS – Steam Deck users and Linux players have plenty of reasons to be pleased with Proton 11.

Valve’s latest Proton update has quietly removed one of the biggest long-standing problems with Linux gaming. Thanks to its integration of Wine 11 and a range of significant optimizations, Proton 11 brings Linux much closer to a Windows-level gaming experience. Linux has steadily improved over the past few years through constant development, and the performance gap between Linux and Windows gaming continues to shrink. Valve’s latest Proton 11.0 Beta 1 release, powered by the move to Wine 11, has eliminated several major issues and pushes Linux gaming closer than ever to that Windows-like standard.

Proton 11.0 Beta is the latest version of the Windows compatibility layer built for Linux, enabling games to run on Linux, SteamOS, and SteamOS-based handheld PCs such as the Steam Deck. While Proton updates arrive frequently, this version is especially important because it rebuilds the entire stack around Wine 11. The update also includes one particularly important addition: support for NTSync, which brings Windows NT synchronization behavior into the Linux kernel. That reduces CPU overhead and is expected to improve frame pacing and frame rate consistency in many games, especially modern DirectX titles that rely heavily on multithreaded workloads.

As with previous Proton releases, this update also expands game support. It improves compatibility further and broadens the list of titles that can now run properly on Linux. A number of games that previously required Proton Experimental now appear to work on the main branch as well. According to the release notes, newly supported titles include Gothic 1 Classic, Deadly Premonition, Metal Gear Survive, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, and classic entries from both the Resident Evil and Dino Crisis series.

The update also fixes launcher-related bugs and other issues, especially those affecting titles tied to Electronic Arts, Rockstar, and REDLauncher. It improves the stability of many modern games and resolves compatibility problems with several previously broken ones. Proton 11 also introduces DXVK 2.78 and updates VKD3D-Proton components, further improving compatibility for games ranging from DX9 all the way to DX12.

Source: WCCFTech, GitHub

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