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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:
  • 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! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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StackMasher May 18, 2017
Quoting: Urgick
Quoting: StackMasher
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
My ISP blocks it
Try this for the video: https://nl.hideproxy.me/go.php?u=mpFAT1TK%2FTxacxXERd20rbcuwfE7oDn6bQ%2BnSvcOki6uvFXO&b=5&f=norefer
If you're talking about the crack I can't help you with that, just keep searching around (hint: direct download sites e.g. zippyshare can host .torrent files too)
Cmdr_Iras May 18, 2017
Quoting: ShmerlThe way it could have been "ported", could clearly only have been a wrapper. In this sense, I'd prefer Wine to support it properly.

Well given how the witcher 2 was ported using EON I agree that a wrapper would have been the expected port style. But not the only choice CDPR could have gone the whole hog and natively ported.

But yes I see your point if it was just going to be a wrapper, then better to have all the required functions / features in WINE so that they can benefit other games and applications.
mrdeathjr May 18, 2017
Back to testing need for speed most wanted 2012 in wine 2.8 staging have better performance compared last wine staging version tested and runs stable

Both tests have csmt disabled

Old Test

View video on youtube.com

Wine 2.8 Staging

View video on youtube.com

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 18 May 2017 at 7:08 pm UTC
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