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As an effect of developing Proton, '''Valve''' and CodeWeavers have upstreamed a lot of upgrades and fixes to Wine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larabel |first=Michael |date=2019-03-27 |title=A Lot Of Valve's Proton Work Is Landing Back In Upstream Wine |url=https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-Work-Back-In-Wine-4.2 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-26 |website=Phoronix}}</ref> | As an effect of developing Proton, '''Valve''' and CodeWeavers have upstreamed a lot of upgrades and fixes to Wine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larabel |first=Michael |date=2019-03-27 |title=A Lot Of Valve's Proton Work Is Landing Back In Upstream Wine |url=https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-Work-Back-In-Wine-4.2 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-26 |website=Phoronix}}</ref> | ||
===Contributing to the FEX emulation layer ()=== | ===Contributing to the FEX emulation layer (''2018 - Present'')=== | ||
On 12 November 2025, '''Valve''' announced the Steam Frame, an ARM based VR headset which will be running {{Wplink|SteamOS}}. In order to to be compatible with most Windows {{Wplink|x86}} games, '''Valve''' will be using the FEX emulation layer alongside Proton. In an anniversary blog post, the FEX lead dev stated: <blockquote>I want to thank the people from Valve for being here from the start and allowing me to kickstart this project. They trusted me with the responsibility of designing and frameworking the project in a way that it can work long-term; not only for their use cases but also keeping it an open project that anyone can adapt for their own use cases.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Houdek |first=Ryan |date=2025-11-28 |title=FEX seven year anniversary! |url=https://fex-emu.com/FEXiversary/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-26 |website=FEX-Emu}}</ref></blockquote>FEX works by emulating x86 specific instructions to ARM64. | On 12 November 2025, '''Valve''' announced the Steam Frame, an ARM based VR headset which will be running {{Wplink|SteamOS}}. In order to to be compatible with most Windows {{Wplink|x86}} games, '''Valve''' will be using the FEX emulation layer alongside Proton. In an anniversary blog post, the FEX lead dev stated: <blockquote>I want to thank the people from Valve for being here from the start and allowing me to kickstart this project. They trusted me with the responsibility of designing and frameworking the project in a way that it can work long-term; not only for their use cases but also keeping it an open project that anyone can adapt for their own use cases.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Houdek |first=Ryan |date=2025-11-28 |title=FEX seven year anniversary! |url=https://fex-emu.com/FEXiversary/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-26 |website=FEX-Emu}}</ref></blockquote>FEX works by emulating x86 specific instructions to ARM64. | ||