Games and Graphics: Mainframe Defenders, Proton, NVIDIA 390.132 Linux Driver and More
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Mainframe Defenders, retrofuturistic squad-based strategy now has a Linux demo
Mainframe Defenders from Old Byte Apps is an in-development retro take on a squad-based strategy roguelike. They just announced today that they've now added a Linux demo.
The story is your typical cyberspace affair, with a virus infiltrating infecting an AI controlled research complex. Your overall mission is to crush this virus and defend the mainframe through a series of missions with different objectives and enemies.
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Steam Play Proton 4.11-8 is out with vkd3d for Direct3D 12 support
Another update to Steam Play Proton has been released this evening, which should bring with it plenty of improvements for playing Windows games on Linux.
Looking to get started with Steam Play on Linux? Be sure to check our previous beginners guide.
Proton 4.11-8 now includes vkd3d, another library built on top of Vulkan to add in Direct3D 12 support. Other parts of Proton also saw version bumps like DXVK to 1.4.4, D9VK to 0.30, FAudio to 19.11 and Wine-mono to 4.9.4.
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NVIDIA 390.132 Linux Driver Released For Legacy Fermi Support
Not nearly as exciting as the recent NVIDIA 440 Linux driver series going stable but for those with older Fermi graphics cards and wanting to use the latest NVIDIA binary driver experience, their 390 series legacy driver series has been updated.
The NVIDIA 390.132 driver is out today as the latest legacy driver update targeting the GeForce GTX 400/500 "Fermi" graphics cards.
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Your weekend look at what's on sale and what you can try free
While the Halloween sales are over, plenty of stores still have some big and interesting game sales going on with lots of Linux games going cheap.
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