Wine 2.9 is now officially available and it's a very interesting one. Fantastic work from the Wine developers.
Highlights:
The new tessellation shaders support makes games like The Witcher 3 much better in Wine. GOL user Shmerl posted some shots and info in our forum, like this one:
Note: You do need other patches for The Witcher 3 to work, Wine-Staging is likely your best bet right now. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Highlights:
- Support for tessellation shaders in Direct3D.
- Binary mode support in WebServices.
- Clipboard changes detected through Xfixes.
- User interface improvements in RegEdit.
- Various bug fixes.
The new tessellation shaders support makes games like The Witcher 3 much better in Wine. GOL user Shmerl posted some shots and info in our forum, like this one:
Note: You do need other patches for The Witcher 3 to work, Wine-Staging is likely your best bet right now. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Comandante Ñoñardo May 26, 2017
Just for curiousity. Can the DRMFREE version of Metro Redux run with this?
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Feel free to try. I didn't buy it yet. Even TW3 I was reluctant to buy, because of how CDPR failed to port it, but someone gave me a spare GOG key, so I could test it in Wine.
Thinking of it, I actually prefer that if the game isn't really native, that it should use open wrappers (like winelib), rather than closed ones (eON, Feral's, etc). In this sense, CDPR could partner with CodeWeavers, and sponsor their DX11 development efforts, then at least they wouldn't be breaking their promises.
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Thinking of it, I actually prefer that if the game isn't really native, that it should use open wrappers (like winelib), rather than closed ones (eON, Feral's, etc). In this sense, CDPR could partner with CodeWeavers, and sponsor their DX11 development efforts, then at least they wouldn't be breaking their promises.
Last edited by Shmerl on 26 May 2017 at 5:21 pm UTC
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoJust for curiousity. Can the DRMFREE version of Metro Redux run with this?
Such a shame that the Linux version isn't on GOG... (Like many others too)
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Quoting: ShmerlNot sure about others, but I've heard Skyrim runs very well already. At least the classic one (was there a remaster)? I'm not keeping track of Bethesda games. The last good TES game was Morrowind, and for that we have OpenMW. :)
Regarding general progress, DX11 is pretty big, so I guess it might take a while before it all will be implemented. But still, some games can work well even before that. TW3 is a good test case, because it's using really a lot of DX11 features and quite heavy ones.
skyrim runs flawlessly through lutris with controller support (under wine) note this is for the original steam version with the optional hd texture pack no the later def version.
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Quoting: CyrilQuoting: Comandante ÑoñardoJust for curiousity. Can the DRMFREE version of Metro Redux run with this?
Such a shame that the Linux version isn't on GOG... (Like many others too)
I've heard the Linux version is broken anyway (that's why GOG didn't accept it), so not a big deal I suppose.
Last edited by Shmerl on 26 May 2017 at 9:33 pm UTC
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This is the current progress of wine dx11 support
Pay no attention to the 9.5% percentile.
That hasn't moved at all in the longest
time.
d3dcompiler_43: 70.6%
d3dcompiler_46: 64%
d3dcompiler_47: 58.6%
d3d10: 86.2%
d3d10_1: 43.3%
d3dx10_39: 97.8%
d3dx10_43: 73.3%
d3d11: 9.5%
d3dx11_42: 18.2%
d3dx11_43: 29.5%Pay no attention to the 9.5% percentile.
That hasn't moved at all in the longest
time.
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Joeyboots80 May 27, 2017
Wine is making great progress. ^_^ Maybe this time next year we will be playing games like TW3 flawlessly on decent hardware.
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Anyone managed to run FSW (Flight Sim World)? That's DX11 but I get a crash with wine staging on Ubuntu.
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TheRiddick May 27, 2017
Do you need wine-2.9 or wine-2.8-staging for witcher3? I can not find wine2.9-staging.
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