The Wine Staging team has put out their 2.11 release and it comes with some interesting fixes. They've done some adjustments to help run GTA 5 and The Witcher 3.
As a reminder: Wine Staging is the testing area for future features and fixes to make it into the normal Wine development releases and then eventually a stable Wine build.
First up, some highlights of the release:
As for the game fixes: The Witcher 3 should now display intro videos and contain less graphical glitches to give a more complete experience. GTA 5 no longer needs "-GPUCount 1" as parameter or to change the PCI IDs to run the game on a NVIDIA graphic card. They've also fixed some input issues in GTA 5.
They also put in a fix for the remaining mouse issues in Unity engine games.
See their release notes here. Sounds like a pretty fun release. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
As a reminder: Wine Staging is the testing area for future features and fixes to make it into the normal Wine development releases and then eventually a stable Wine build.
First up, some highlights of the release:
- Preloader compatibility enhancements for older macOS versions.
- NVAPI improvements.
- Support for starting position-independent executables (PIE) from Wine.
- Keyboard/Mouse handling fixes.
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvements.
As for the game fixes: The Witcher 3 should now display intro videos and contain less graphical glitches to give a more complete experience. GTA 5 no longer needs "-GPUCount 1" as parameter or to change the PCI IDs to run the game on a NVIDIA graphic card. They've also fixed some input issues in GTA 5.
They also put in a fix for the remaining mouse issues in Unity engine games.
See their release notes here. Sounds like a pretty fun release. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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PlutonMaster Jun 28, 2017
Anyone got GTA 5 running with this?
I can only log in the Social club and the game won't start.
Hopefully this game starts with this Wine.
I can only log in the Social club and the game won't start.
Hopefully this game starts with this Wine.
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Well, I'm still not buying either until they:
- Drop to 75% discount or more.
- Release for Linux (yes, I know this is very low chance) and then I'd buy at full price.
Good that WINE offers so much potential for Windows-only games working on Linux. Keep up the hard work, WINE devs ;)
Last edited by g000h on 28 June 2017 at 11:52 am UTC
- Drop to 75% discount or more.
- Release for Linux (yes, I know this is very low chance) and then I'd buy at full price.
Good that WINE offers so much potential for Windows-only games working on Linux. Keep up the hard work, WINE devs ;)
Last edited by g000h on 28 June 2017 at 11:52 am UTC
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My wonder is if i can get Starcraft 1 or remastered working so i can play with friends.
Starcraft 1 now dies when i start battle net.
Starcraft 1 now dies when i start battle net.
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In staging patches appears some interesting patches by Nils Kuhnhenn, however dont approved by sebastian lackner
This is some information about this patches:
And this related csmt
^_^
This is some information about this patches:
Improves heap allocation performance by balancing free lists and improving common bottlenecks.
Fixes Guild Wars 2 FPS decrease when it is running for a longer period of time and can almost double the FPS in big fights (World Bosses, WvW, etc...) by reducing the overhead of the memory allocator from ~30% CPU time to ~2%.
Don't use the "ntdll-Heap_FreeLists" patch from wine-staging when using this one (they have conflicting changes).
Author: Nils Kuhnhenn
And this related csmt
Requires: CSMT patches.
Can reduce CPU usage when using the CSMT patchset by up to 50% or sometimes even more.
Whether this translates into an FPS increase or an improvement in responsiveness depends on your OS and hardware (and game).
Author: Nils Kuhnhenn
^_^
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Jesus Christ, Liam!!!!! You gave me a heart attack with that title. My all-time favorite games, GTA5 and Witcher3 in the same sentence with the word Wine!!!
I haven't read the article yet and I'm off to compile and test it. NOW!!!! :-)
I haven't read the article yet and I'm off to compile and test it. NOW!!!! :-)
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Arehandoro Jun 28, 2017
Sounds to me like the perfect time to install The Witcher 3 and give it a go. These are brilliant news! Hopefully no need to compile Wine or adding more extra patches, never manage to do it properly xD
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Witcher 3
View video on youtube.com
View video on youtube.com
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Witcher 3
View video on youtube.com
malek69, Witcher3 requires wow64, right? Is that the GOTY or vanilla Witcher3? Updated to latest version?
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malek69, Witcher3 requires wow64, right? Is that the GOTY or vanilla Witcher3? Updated to latest version?Use wine64(./configure --enable-win64) Use mods:The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project, Super Turbo lighting Mod, Unification patch for 1.31 and 1.31GOTY game versions and more. I have only one DlC "The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine"
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Witcher 3
The only weird thing I noticed was that the water doesn't look quite right. There is something "low res" going on there. Is that normal or one of the remaining issues for Wine?
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Yes, water is strange, this wine bug.Witcher 3
The only weird thing I noticed was that the water doesn't look quite right. There is something "low res" going on there. Is that normal or one of the remaining issues for Wine?
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Witcher 3
The only weird thing I noticed was that the water doesn't look quite right. There is something "low res" going on there. Is that normal or one of the remaining issues for Wine?
The thing I noticed is the stuttering in the video - Is gameplay smooth yet? Im happy to tune my graphic settings but expect the game not to have constant framedrops and stutters while playing.
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malek69, Witcher3 requires wow64, right?
No, it doesn't require WoW64 and works with simple 64-bit Wine as well.
Last edited by Shmerl on 28 June 2017 at 3:09 pm UTC
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Witcher 3
The only weird thing I noticed was that the water doesn't look quite right. There is something "low res" going on there. Is that normal or one of the remaining issues for Wine?
Feel free to report a bug.
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My wonder is if i can get Starcraft 1 or remastered working so i can play with friends.
Starcraft 1 now dies when i start battle net.
depends what the game is built on sc2 is based on dx9 so it very easy to get up and running on wine however if its DX11 it could be brutal
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Use wine64(./configure --enable-win64) Use mods:The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project, Super Turbo lighting Mod, Unification patch for 1.31 and 1.31GOTY game versions and more. I have only one DlC "The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine"
Curiosity: Hi Malek69, what's your material? Can you run it smoothly by decreasing graphics?
Can you explain all steps to install wine staging and the game with the less pain please?
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GTA V - black screen with audio; before 2.11 "Not enough memory" error;switch to 1600x900 you may get a playable framerate also make sure to turn off AA and hair works
Witcher 3 - some mirror visual glitches, performance isn't good for playing 1080p on middle with (i7 3770, Nvidia GTX 1070)
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Use wine64(./configure --enable-win64) Use mods:The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project, Super Turbo lighting Mod, Unification patch for 1.31 and 1.31GOTY game versions and more. I have only one DlC "The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine"
Curiosity: Hi Malek69, what's your material? Can you run it smoothly by decreasing graphics?
We have a thread for it specifically: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2753
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it is buggy but it works and im using a gtx 1080 and core i7-7700k
Did you experience any bugs not already listed in the WineHQ page?
Last edited by Shmerl on 28 June 2017 at 4:34 pm UTC
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My wonder is if i can get Starcraft 1 or remastered working so i can play with friends.
Starcraft 1 now dies when i start battle net.
depends what the game is built on sc2 is based on dx9 so it very easy to get up and running on wine however if its DX11 it could be brutal
Blizzard games are a pain to run , especially their client.
Starcraft 2 should work fine
I still have yet to try the solution provided by camoceltic :
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/wine-staging-210-released-with-more-anti-cheat-fixes.9837/page=4#r95618
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