The goal of ProtonDB is to gather reports from other gamers as they test games with Proton on Linux and provide aggregate scores of how well games perform. ProtonDB, the unofficial community website, collects and displays crowdsourced data describing the compatibility of Windows games with Proton. Being a fork of Wine, Proton maintains the compatibility with Windows applications as its upstream counterpart, adding performance and stability.

Being a fork of Wine, Proton maintains the compatibility with Windows applications as its upstream counterpart, adding performance and stability.Steam Proton is designed for the integration into Steam Play, allowing to use of Windows games and software within Steam, but it can also be used as a standalone application.

Proton is designed for the integration into Steam Play, allowing to use of Windows games and software within Steam, but it can also be used as a standalone application. With Proton and Steam Play, Windows games now work on Linux! Proton is based on Wine ( Wine Is Not an Emulator, the compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems) and includes additional components like DXVK ( Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation for Linux), a library that translates Direct3D calls to Vulkan on-the-fly. Valve made a compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and some additional components, this brought the Linux gaming experience to a new level. An open-source compatibility layer developed for running modern Windows-exclusive Steam games on Linux, this is Proton.

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