Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Fixes EA App Lock-Ups and Marvel's Avengers Rendering Issues
Valve's latest Proton beta fixes EA App lock-ups, a frame rate regression in They Are Billions, and updates VKD3D-Proton with Marvel's Avengers fixes.
Valve's latest Proton beta fixes EA App lock-ups, a frame rate regression in They Are Billions, and updates VKD3D-Proton with Marvel's Avengers fixes.
Proton 11.0 Beta 1 rebases on Wine 11.0 with updated DXVK and VKD3D, making Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, and several classic Capcom titles playable on Linux for the first time.
Proton 11 beta 2 fixes EA App lockups via Xalia 0.4.9 and updates vkd3d-proton with Marvel's Avengers fixes.
Box64 0.4.2 adds an initial PPC64LE back-end for IBM POWER hardware alongside Steam Runtime 3 and Proton 11.0 support, expanding x86_64 emulation across four architectures.
RADV lands VK_EXT_descriptor_heap in Mesa 26.1, a Vulkan extension designed to improve descriptor management for DXVK and VKD3D-Proton translation layers used by Steam Play.
Steam on Linux hit an all-time high of 5.33% in the March 2026 Steam Survey, crossing 5% for the first time and more than doubling its macOS counterpart, with roughly a quarter of Linux players on SteamOS.
Linux gaming on Steam dropped to 2.23% in February after hitting 3.58% in December, likely due to a reporting anomaly tied to Chinese language user data.
Lutris 0.5.21 adds Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 support and new runners for PlayStation 4 and Xbox 360 emulation alongside UI improvements.
Valve is funding Linux kernel changes to fix ARM emulation limitations, paving the way for Windows games on the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame.
Linux gaming reaches 3.2% on Steam, up from 2% just a year ago, as Steam Deck and Proton drive adoption ahead of new Valve hardware.
Fedora 44 will automatically enable NTSYNC for Wine and Steam users, finally making the kernel's faster Windows compatibility layer work out of the box.