Valve adds support for more Windows games and Nvidia DLSS for Proton

As seen on Phoronix (via Tom’s Hardware), Valve has finally updated its Proton compatibility layer for Windows games to work on Linux-based operating systems.

This announcement comes after the company mentioned a delay for the launch of its Steam Deck portable game device.

With the latest update, 24 PC games that previously lacked support have been officially announced:

• Age of Empires 4
• Assassin’s Creed
• Breath of Death VI
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II [Single Player]
• DEATHLOOP
• FIA European Truck Racing Championship
• Fly’N
• Game Dev Tycoon
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered
• GreedFall
• Mafia II (Classic)
• Magicka
• Marvel’s Guardian of the Galaxy (AMD GPUs only)
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition (ME1 does not have working audio, see #4823)
• Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
• Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Video Game
• Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Video Game 2
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
• Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slicked Precipice of Darkness 3
• RiMS Racing
• The Riftbreaker
• Sol Survivor
• TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge
• TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge 2

Certain games will also get BattleEye support and additional fixes for games previously supported.

The latest Proton update also adds support for Nvidia DLSS in DX11/DX12 games. Fans have to enable this with PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 and dxgi.nvapiHack = False in the most recent version of Steamworks SDKs.

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) takes images rendered at low resolutions and upscales them to higher resolutions using artificial intelligence.

Unfortunately, Nvidia DLSS will not work with Steam Deck because the portable device is based on AMD hardware.

[Sources]: GitHub: Proton 6.3-8 – [Archive]. Phoronix: Proton 6.3-8 Released With More Windows Games Playable, Support For Some BattlEye Games – [Archive]. Tom’s Hardware: Steam Adds Linux Support for DLSS, 24 More Games – [Archive].