Valve Proton
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(For the proton in particle physics, see Proton.)
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components.
Proton is a compatibility layer for running Microsoft Windows games on Linux-based operating systems. Proton is developed by Valve and is based on a fork of Wine. It includes a number of patches and libraries to improve performance and compatibility with Windows games.
Features
- A compatibility layer based on a fork of Wine for running Windows games on Linux
- 2 years and 6 months after its release in August 2018
- 7,000 Platinum games that work without any changes; 13,000 games reported working by the community
- About 100 games added every month
- When Vanilla Proton does not work, you can try the Proton GE (Glorious Eggroll) version
- A newer version of Wine
- FFMpeg applied to FAudio by default
- More patches applied to Wine, Vulkan, and VKD3D