Steam Play updates its service with a new version of Proton

Steam Play has been updated. The Steam Play 4.2-8 version is out. The client of this Valve service to bring videogames to the GNU / Linux world follows his progress. The new development has focused on including the project DXVK 1.2.3, the new version that has been incorporated to translate the instructions of the DirectX videogames to Vulkan for use with Wine and to be able to run native Window video games in Linux.

The great idea of Valve and the Proton project is paying off and many Linux users can play their favorite games without relying on Windows. Now the native titles of the Microsoft system can be played thanks to Steam Play without any barrier. And although there is still work to be done, little by little it is progressing. If you want to know all the news included in this new release, read on ...

Steam Play includes some important changes such as:

1. Fixed some problems that integrate an embedded browser using Steam Client. For example, Football Manager 2019.
2. Correction of problems with Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and other video games that stop working and send an error message.
3. Wine-monkey has been updated to 4.9.0 which includes winforms support. That will help all titles that are based on Mono.
4. Several problems with corrected window and alt-tab managers.
5. Corrections for flyers and controls that lose the force feedback system.
6. In addition, with the new DXVK have been solved problems with the game engine Unreal Engine 4, problems loading the textures of World of Warships and other titles, less CPU overhead, optimizations for the GPU and memory, etc.

So you will have fewer problems and more performance, so you can continue having more fun ... Hopefully these steps are followed and many more improvements come. The gaming world in Linux deserves it.