Written by Michael Larabel, January 12.
Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives to allow for better gaming performance. The NTSYNC code has long been a work-in-progress but this week the revised code made it into the relevant “-next” branch ahead of Linux 6.14.
The NTSYNC driver has been a long time coming for better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives within the Linux kernel and opening up a great deal more performance potential for Windows games running on Linux with the likes of Wine and Valve’s popular Steam Play (Proton) software. The initial NTSYNC driver was merged back in Linux 6.10 but marked as “broken” since not all of the functionality was wired up for actually making this driver useful to end-users/gamers.
