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Wine-Staging 2.10 is now available and it brings in some interesting changes to further improve Wine for everyone. A big part of this release is Mac-focused, but there's a few other nice bits for us.

Reminder: Wine Staging is the testing area for features not quite ready to be included in the Wine development releases.

The main features of this release as noted by the Wine-Staging team are:
  • Preloader for macOS.
  • ntoskrnl and winedevice improvements.
  • Various smaller bug fixes and improvements.


On top of that, they also mentioned some fixes related to mouse issues in Unity games, improved Windows kernel drivers and also more work towards anti cheat issues.

It also pulls in all changes from Wine 2.10. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Kallestofeles 14 Jun 2017
And Witcher3 is working... playably... I know I'm spamming... I'm just still hyped...
View video on youtube.com

I shall no longer spam this video, honestly. :)
Leopard 14 Jun 2017
And Witcher3 is working... playably... I know I'm spamming... I'm just still hyped...
View video on youtube.com

I shall no longer spam this video, honestly. :)

What about no Tux no bucks?
razing32 14 Jun 2017
And Witcher3 is working... playably... I know I'm spamming... I'm just still hyped...
View video on youtube.com

I shall no longer spam this video, honestly. :)

Until the next release when Witcher works better :)
Liam Dawe 14 Jun 2017
Fantastic to see it working so well, although it does seem to stutter a lot, so hopefully performance can be worked out. Still, that's quite incredible progress for Wine.
Liam Dawe 14 Jun 2017
What about no Tux no bucks?
Not everyone agrees to that hard-rule. It's not a one size fits all rule.

There's also the people who purchased it on the previous promises of a Linux port and got stung by it, quite a lot of people I imagine.
Leopard 14 Jun 2017
What about no Tux no bucks?
Not everyone agrees to that hard-rule. It's not a one size fits all rule.

There's also the people who purchased it on the previous promises of a Linux port and got stung by it, quite a lot of people I imagine.

If the one is in Linux gaming more than one year , should've learned by now to not believing promises or kickstarters when it comes to Linux.

Anyway , i looked up to his profile and it seems he is dual booting so my mistake.

But i must say that : I'm not agreeing with that kind of happiness at all. If Wine gaming really becomes a thing , we would never see in house ports or official supports.
Developers will be like : " They're doing fine with Wine , why should i bother with official Linux support?"

And sadly ; Wine usage is becoming a piracy tool. Check out Wine forums. There are so much people which asking running ETS2 on Wine , Total War Attila in Wine , CiV VI in Wine. When you say; that game is available on Linux they're not responding at all.

Wine = Sacred place for pirated Windows games on Linux , without virus or malware threat.

Also it seems John Carmack was true about his Linux gaming thoughts.
Liam Dawe 14 Jun 2017
Wine has been around for a long time and so far it hasn't really stopped any games coming to Linux.

Wine is a fantastic tool.

There will always be games Linux doesn't get and people should not be forced into giving them up or never getting a chance to play them. I take a much more pragmatic approach than a lot of people on this issue.

Starcraft II for example, one of my favourite RTS games ever made. It will never come to Linux, but that doesn't mean I have to give it up.

I would rather people used Wine on Linux, than Windows.
qptain Nemo 14 Jun 2017
And Witcher3 is working... playably... I know I'm spamming... I'm just still hyped...
View video on youtube.com

I shall no longer spam this video, honestly. :)
Hell. Yeah.
razing32 14 Jun 2017
Wine has been around for a long time and so far it hasn't really stopped any games coming to Linux.

Wine is a fantastic tool.

There will always be games Linux doesn't get and people should not be forced into giving them up or never getting a chance to play them. I take a much more pragmatic approach than a lot of people on this issue.

Starcraft II for example, one of my favourite RTS games ever made. It will never come to Linux, but that doesn't mean I have to give it up.

I would rather people used Wine on Linux, than Windows.

You have to teach me to run some of Blizzard's stuff on wine.
Maybe a tutorial some day :)
Liam Dawe 14 Jun 2017
Wine has been around for a long time and so far it hasn't really stopped any games coming to Linux.

Wine is a fantastic tool.

There will always be games Linux doesn't get and people should not be forced into giving them up or never getting a chance to play them. I take a much more pragmatic approach than a lot of people on this issue.

Starcraft II for example, one of my favourite RTS games ever made. It will never come to Linux, but that doesn't mean I have to give it up.

I would rather people used Wine on Linux, than Windows.

You have to teach me to run some of Blizzard's stuff on wine.
Maybe a tutorial some day :)
Hah not likely, I just tried Lutris, then Wine by itself, then Wine Staging...couldn't get the darn Blizzard app working at all. No Starcraft II for me today!
razing32 14 Jun 2017
Wine has been around for a long time and so far it hasn't really stopped any games coming to Linux.

Wine is a fantastic tool.

There will always be games Linux doesn't get and people should not be forced into giving them up or never getting a chance to play them. I take a much more pragmatic approach than a lot of people on this issue.

Starcraft II for example, one of my favourite RTS games ever made. It will never come to Linux, but that doesn't mean I have to give it up.

I would rather people used Wine on Linux, than Windows.

You have to teach me to run some of Blizzard's stuff on wine.
Maybe a tutorial some day :)
Hah not likely, I just tried Lutris, then Wine by itself, then Wine Staging...couldn't get the darn Blizzard app working at all. No Starcraft II for me today!

It runs for me but all buttons are missing.
Too bad there is no Battle net CLI app ;)
Shmerl 14 Jun 2017
If Wine gaming really becomes a thing , we would never see in house ports or official supports.

Don't we already have this situation? We either have a few developers who make proper native ports, or we have developers who use cross platform engines to begin with. The rest are using very unportable engines, and then use contractors to wrap them in Linux compatible APIs (Feral, VP and etc. do that). So Wine isn't any worse than the last variant, and in fact I'd argue it's better because it's FOSS. If you complain about Wine, you should also complain about companies not making native ports, but using wrappers from Feral and others.

And "official support" is usually very short lived when wrappers are concerned. History demonstrated that. And in contrast, Wine developers can still fix bugs which affect games which came out a long time ago.


Last edited by Shmerl on 14 Jun 2017 at 9:03 pm UTC
Shmerl 14 Jun 2017
And sadly ; Wine usage is becoming a piracy tool.

Stop this nonsense please. Otherwise, should we also claim that wheel has become a crime tool, so it needs to be avoided?
Shmerl 14 Jun 2017
And Witcher3 is working... playably... I know I'm spamming... I'm just still hyped...

You need to mention for people that it's not stock Wine and not stock staging either. Otherwise it's misleading and will only cause confusion for those who won't notice your video description. So be considerate.


Last edited by Shmerl on 14 Jun 2017 at 9:15 pm UTC
malek69 14 Jun 2017
I shall no longer spam this video, honestly. :)
I will find a dark spot for spammers.
View video on youtube.com
Oh I found, we have topic :P Witcher 3 wine


Last edited by malek69 on 14 Jun 2017 at 9:18 pm UTC
scaine 14 Jun 2017
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And Witcher3 is working... playably... I know I'm spamming... I'm just still hyped...

You need to mention for people that it's not stock Wine and not stock staging either. Otherwise it's misleading.

He states that you have to manually patch wine in the video.
Shmerl 14 Jun 2017
He states that you have to manually patch wine in the video.

I mean when posting stuff like "it works". Not everyone will watch the full video :)
TheRiddick 14 Jun 2017
What about no Tux no bucks?

While most the time if the developer is in a position to release a Linux version I will argue this point. Unfortunately there are many older games or DX11 games that are left in the dust that won't get a Linux release any time soon, or ever. So you can choose to NOT buy them, you are missing out on some amazing stuff however!

Also if their games work well via Wine that can convince developers to look at making it official, as we have seen happen in the past. Plus it brings more people over to Linux platform which we need, people just want to play their games, they don't care about the politics of it all! MMKAY


Last edited by TheRiddick on 14 Jun 2017 at 9:30 pm UTC
Liam Dawe 14 Jun 2017
people just want to play their games, they don't care about the politics of it all! MMKAY
^ important detail
StackMasher 14 Jun 2017
GTA V still no changes like usual
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