Steam Play bumps Proton to version 4.11-8 - bring on D3D12

Proton, Valve's fork of Wine for playing Windows games on Linux, just received a pretty interesting addition today. Proton now includes vkd3d which, similar to DXVK and D9VK, translates Direct3D into Vulkan. Differing from the latter two projects though, vkd3d targets Microsoft's newest Direct3D 12 and is mainly worked on by the Wine developers as an integral part of the overall Wine Project. Games using D3D12 will only become more common in the coming year so it's great to see some proactive work on tackling it.

On top of this major addition, some work has been done to reduce the disk space required by Proton. Not a huge issue but definitely welcome for people with limited storage. And hey, storage should be used for games not compatibility tools.

Valve also includes several projects from other developers in Proton and most of them have been upgraded in the latest Proton

• DXVK is updated to v1.4.4.
• D9VK is updated to 0.30.
• FAudio is updated to 19.11.
• Wine-mono is updated to 4.9.4.

Check out the release notes for a full list of changes. And if you're looking for a game to really show what Proton can do, try Sekiro.