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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.

Proton 11.0 Beta Arrives With Wine 11.0 Rebase and a Wave of Newly Playable Games

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 Releases Beta Version 10.0-1 Enhancing Compatibility for Windows Games

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Brings D3D12 Shader Extensions to Linux Gaming

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 lands experimental Direct3D 12 NVIDIA shader extension support, promising improvements for Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2, and Unreal Engine 5 titles on Linux.

Steam on Linux Holds at 4.52 Percent After Record March Surge

Linux gaming on Steam settled at 4.52 percent in April 2026 after March's record 5.33 percent peak, with SteamOS Holo accounting for roughly 23 percent of Linux gamers.

Valve Ships Proton 11 Beta 2 With EA App and VKD3D-Proton Fixes

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 Brings x86_64 Emulation to IBM POWER Hardware, Adds Proton 11.0 Support

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.

Mesa RADV Merges Descriptor Heap Extension That Could Smooth Out Steam Play Performance

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 Surpasses 5% Market Share for the First Time

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.

Steam Survey Shows Linux Gaming Share Drops to 2.23% in February

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 Support for Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 and PlayStation 4 Emulation

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 and Igalia Push Linux Kernel Changes to Improve ARM Gaming Emulation

Valve is funding Linux kernel changes to fix ARM emulation limitations, paving the way for Windows games on the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame.

Steam on Linux Hits 3.2% Market Share as Platform Continues Upward Trend

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 to Auto-Load NTSYNC Module for Better Wine and Steam Gaming Performance

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.