Nvidia’s DLSS has come to Linux gaming (however now not the Steam Deck clearly) -MyCyberBase

Years after its failed Steam Machines, Valve is slowly however indisputably making improvements to the state of Linux gaming. The corporate’s upcoming Steam Deck hand-held runs atop Linux, and its Proton compatibility layer we could it — and different computer systems — play Home windows video games as neatly. Now, Valve has formally added strengthen for Nvidia’s DLSS device finding out temporal upscaling strategy to Proton, doubtlessly bringing giant FPS boosts and no more flicker in video games that strengthen the generation.

As Phoronix reports (by means of Tom’s Hardware), Proton 6.3-8 is the primary solid unencumber to incorporate strengthen for DLSS, after the function up to now hit experimental builds in October, although apparently you’ll nonetheless want to set PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 and dxgi.nvapiHack = False to show it on. DLSS received’t come to the AMD-powered Steam Deck, in fact, because it calls for proprietary Nvidia device finding out silicon, however we just lately realized the Steam Deck will strengthen AMD’s arguably much less capable FSR.

The brand new model of Proton additionally claims to permit strengthen for a number of extra Home windows video games on Linux basically, together with the prestigious Deathloop, Age of Empires 4, and each Wonder’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Mass Impact Mythical Version (although it sounds as if the ones remaining two have barriers which might be nonetheless being labored out).

And, Valve says 6.3-8 is the discharge that incorporates “strengthen for an preliminary set of BattlEye video games,” regarding the BattlEye anti-cheat instrument that may or may not be holding back some of the most popular Steam games from having right kind operating multiplayer at the Steam Deck and Linux basically. (Ball’s in definitely in the developers’ court.)

You’ll in finding the overall changelog here at Valve’s GitHub. Nvidia at first introduced it could paintings with Valve to deliver DLSS to Linux back in June.