Wine 3.2 officially released today and it comes with some interesting improvements, which I'm sure many will appreciate.
Here's the official noted highlights:
- Separate implementation of USER controls for ComCtl32 v6.
- Multisample texture support in Direct3D.
- Support for HID gamepads.
- More event support in MSHTML.
- Obsolete DOS code removed.
- Various bug fixes.
In regards to bug fixes, the Wine team noted 34 bugs as fixed. These include improvements to running Indiana Jones and The Emperor's Tomb, The Witness, Hearthstone, System Shock and more.
Some better support for gamepads I'm sure will be welcome by many, the better experience people get from running older games in Wine the easier a transition it will be for people coming to Linux. That's what I think anyway, Wine can be useful for those who don't want to lose access to older games.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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PlutonMaster Feb 17, 2018
Quoting: LeopardIs Wine Staging dead now?
Something is happening here https://dev.wine-staging.com/timeline/
Patience.
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I try to switch to wine-devel but it don't works on my system. It missed a vulkan DLL and gave me lot of errors. So I go back to wine-staging. But wine-staging stucks at 2.21, so I can't use this new improvements.
With wine-devel I don't even can run Doom 2016, which runs under staging for over a year without any problems. Am I the only one with problems like this? Xubuntu 17.10, Nvidia driver 387.34.
I would like to try GTA V, for example. But with 3.1 it doesn't even starts. I can't even get to the backscreen. Somehow I get the impression that we have reached the point again, where you have again to test and configure a lot more by yourself.
Maybe that's why nothing new appears in staging. The old staging version is still very stable. I'm now waiting for 4.0, which should be released next year. Maybe I can finally play GTA V with that.
Last edited by 1xok on 17 February 2018 at 2:00 pm UTC
With wine-devel I don't even can run Doom 2016, which runs under staging for over a year without any problems. Am I the only one with problems like this? Xubuntu 17.10, Nvidia driver 387.34.
I would like to try GTA V, for example. But with 3.1 it doesn't even starts. I can't even get to the backscreen. Somehow I get the impression that we have reached the point again, where you have again to test and configure a lot more by yourself.
Maybe that's why nothing new appears in staging. The old staging version is still very stable. I'm now waiting for 4.0, which should be released next year. Maybe I can finally play GTA V with that.
Last edited by 1xok on 17 February 2018 at 2:00 pm UTC
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Wine-Staging is done:
https://wine-staging.com/news/2018-02-17-future-wine-staging.html
So let's see what Alistair makes of his fork and how many patches land upstream in the near future
https://wine-staging.com/news/2018-02-17-future-wine-staging.html
So let's see what Alistair makes of his fork and how many patches land upstream in the near future
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Quoting: tpauWine-Staging is done:
https://wine-staging.com/news/2018-02-17-future-wine-staging.html
So let's see what Alistair makes of his fork and how many patches land upstream in the near future
Thanks for the info. But who is Alistair?
It's a pity that wine staging is no longer possible.
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Quoting: 1xokThanks for the info. But who is Alistair?One person that created this fork https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/
It is not bad if it is over as long as the patches are upstreamed.
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Quoting: tpauQuoting: 1xokThanks for the info. But who is Alistair?One person that created this fork https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/
It is not bad if it is over as long as the patches are upstreamed.
I think the main problem is, that there is no easy working repository for 3.x any more. I didn't test the stable branch so far, but I would expect the same problems I had with 3.1. All this is time consuming. In that time I prefer to play native Linux games and wait until there is a well maintained repository for gamers again. I, for my part, would pay for it as long as the results are published under the same license as Wine. Patreon?
Last edited by 1xok on 17 February 2018 at 4:36 pm UTC
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Kimyrielle Feb 17, 2018
Which gaming relevant patches are in Staging that didn't yet make it to the main branch?
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Quoting: KimyrielleWhich gaming relevant patches are in Staging that didn't yet make it to the main branch?
For me the GTA V black screen patch. Is nearly impossible to start the game with wine versions < 3.1 if you have Nvidia hardware. See:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=32038&iTestingId=100843
Last edited by 1xok on 17 February 2018 at 5:48 pm UTC
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Arehandoro Feb 17, 2018
Does anyone know why Wine 3.1 or 3.2 even has not made yet to Debian sid?
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Quoting: KimyrielleWhich gaming relevant patches are in Staging that didn't yet make it to the main branch?
ECDSA Cert Patchseries and the NTDLL Patches that allow the Blizzard App and Anti-Cheat System to work for WoW and Overwatch (probably the rest of the franchises too)
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