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Proton-ZLUDA

Run CUDA / GPU-PhysX Windows games on AMD Radeon under Steam on Linux, via ZLUDA on ROCm. Drag-and-drop Proton compatibility tool + version converter.

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Details

External ID
1412783715
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
Proton-ZLUDA
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Oct. 10, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
14
Upvotes percentile
0.27
Tags
amd, cuda, linux-gaming, physx, proton, radeon, steam, zluda

Enrichment

Niche
gpu infrastructure and developer tools
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
proton tool to run cuda games on amd radeon via zluda
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Translating proprietary NVIDIA CUDA/GPU-PhysX API calls to run seamlessly on AMD ROCm inside Proton/Wine for Windows gaming demands world-class GPU driver and low-level compatibility layer systems expertise.

What it would actually take: The architecture requires creating a custom Proton compatibility build that integrates Wine, DXVK, and ZLUDA (a CUDA translation layer targeting AMD's ROCm/HIP). The hard part is translating Windows PE CUDA driver APIs (nvcuda.dll / PhysX) to AMD ROCm Linux equivalents on the fly without breaking anti-cheat, memory models, or GPU synchronization. This requires deep systems expertise in Wine internals, Windows/Linux driver ABIs, and GPU compute architectures.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #202 of 253 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.

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