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Proton brings around 7,000 Windows games to Linux

Summary

Boiling Steam analyses ProtonDB again and describes the growth in playable titles thanks to progress in Proton, Wine, DXVK and drivers. The analysis cited about 7,000 working Windows games. At the time Proton had been available for about two and a half years.

Ideas

  • Proton encapsulates runtime components per game within Steam.
  • DXVK translates Direct3D to the cross-platform Vulkan interface.
  • ProtonDB reports distinguish different degrees of practical usability.
  • Community tests cover more titles than an official whitelist.

Insights

  • Compatibility grows cumulatively through many small fixes in the shared stack.
  • Large overall numbers say little about a particular game.
  • Open bug reports link user observations with upstream improvements.

Facts

  • It appeared in March 2021.

Recommendations

  • Check current individual reports before buying or upgrading.
  • Report regressions separately to the component that causes them.

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HN · 2020

Proton reaches around 6,000 Windows games

Boiling Steam analyses ProtonDB and shows how Wine, DXVK, Mesa and Valve together greatly broaden what can be played on Linux. The analysis cited about 6,000 working games. The underlying data came from ProtonDB.

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