Jeremy Newman : news about SteamPlay and Proton

Thu Aug 23 15:38:33 CDT 2018

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Author: Jeremy Newman <jnewman at codeweavers.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 15:37:52 2018 -0500

news about SteamPlay and Proton

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+<news>
+  <date>August 23, 2018</date>
+  <title>Valve Releases SteamPlay for Linux</title>
+  <body>
+    <p>Valve has released <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561">SteamPlay Beta</a> for Linux. It includes a modified distribution of Wine, to provide compatibility with Windows game titles. The included improvements to Wine have been designed and funded by Valve, in a joint development effort with <a href="https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2018/8/22/wine-and-steam-a-major-milestone">CodeWeavers</a>.</p>
+    <p>Here are some examples of what they been working on together since 2016:</p>
+    <ul>
+        <li><a href="https://source.winehq.org/git/vkd3d.git/">vkd3d</a>, the Direct3D 12 implementation based on Vulkan</li>
+        <li>The OpenVR and Steamworks native API bridges</li>
+        <li>Many wined3d performance and functionality fixes for Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 11</li>
+        <li>Overhauled fullscreen and gamepad support</li>
+        <li>The "<a href="https://github.com/zfigura/wine/blob/esync/">esync</a>" patchset, for multi-threaded performance improvements</li>
+    </ul>
+    <p>Proton, the tool that Steam Play uses to provide Windows compatibility, contains a custom version of Wine as well as additional libraries developed alongside it. It's fully open-source and available <a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton">on GitHub</a>.</p>
+  </body>
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