Wine Staging has released their 2.8 build of Wine with their usual assorted enhancements. This release should fix Starcraft 1 support and also run Star Wars: The Old Republic better.
In addition to the features pulled in from the Wine 2.8 development release, Wine Staging 2.8 adds:
In regards to the two games mentioned, Star Wars: The Old Republic should now work better thanks to their implementation of a mechanism to "update the time fields inside the used shared data block periodically". This is done in a new thread and only when required.
They also say Starcraft I should now work in a default Windows 7 prefix thanks to some of the new features implemented.
Stellar work as always!
In addition to the features pulled in from the Wine 2.8 development release, Wine Staging 2.8 adds:
- Improved fake dll generation.
- Implement updating shared data time fields.
- Reset debug registers on thread creation.
- Added basic ACL viewer in file properties.
- Various smaller improvements and bug fixes.
In regards to the two games mentioned, Star Wars: The Old Republic should now work better thanks to their implementation of a mechanism to "update the time fields inside the used shared data block periodically". This is done in a new thread and only when required.
They also say Starcraft I should now work in a default Windows 7 prefix thanks to some of the new features implemented.
Stellar work as always!
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Nice to see the work as always. Im just waiting on Witcher 3 to become playable decently, i mean obviously would prefer it to be ported but at this point im not optimistic!
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Starcraft I works, played only one singleplayer mission but it's really flawless. Thanks, Wine devs!
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How it goes with GTA V? Does someone tried it?
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Quoting: UrgickHow it goes with GTA V? Does someone tried it?I have tried with Wine-Staging 2.7. Launcher starts, it logs me in the Social Club and then gives me error message and I can't start it.
I'm waiting here Wine-Staging 2.8 when it arrives in Manjaro repos.
I tried to install wine-gaming-nine 2.8 but it gave me error about incorrect package.
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Quoting: UrgickHow it goes with GTA V? Does someone tried it?It's been working since like wine-staging 2.2, but not a lot has improved since that release. Performance sucks, there's quite a few graphical bugs, and you need a controller to play because the keyboard freezes the game. Newer versions don't work due to DRM, you have to either crack the game or run offline to skip updates. I have version 2 if I remember correctly
I made a video on it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5jyk9a
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Quoting: ajgpNice to see the work as always. Im just waiting on Witcher 3 to become playable decently, i mean obviously would prefer it to be ported but at this point im not optimistic!
The way it could have been "ported", could clearly only have been a wrapper. In this sense, I'd prefer Wine to support it properly.
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did anyone tried starcraft2 (or any battle.net game) with it? A while back I've tried to launch it, but it seems Blizzard did something which prevent me from even getting into launcher.
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Quoting: StackMasherMy ISP blocks itQuoting: UrgickHow it goes with GTA V? Does someone tried it?It's been working since like wine-staging 2.2, but not a lot has improved since that release. Performance sucks, there's quite a few graphical bugs, and you need a controller to play because the keyboard freezes the game. Newer versions don't work due to DRM, you have to either crack the game or run offline to skip updates. I have version 2 if I remember correctly
I made a video on it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5jyk9a
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Quoting: UrgickMy ISP blocks it
VPN can help.
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Which StarCraft? The classic one? This is working long before: Had it running even with WINE 1.6. Or is it the new StarCraft with builtin Blizzard-DRM (called Battle.net-Launcher)?
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