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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Quoting: tpauQuoting: 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)
And many others allow run many games specially DX10-11 titles
Without forget origin, uplay patches and others
^_^
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qptain Nemo Feb 18, 2018
It seems very important then to prioritize upstreaming of those patches, so they're not just lost, even temporarily. Continued maintenance of wine-staging would be very nice, especially if it's maintained at the same level of quality as before, but it seems secondary.
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Quoting: LeopardIs Wine Staging dead now?
It basically is: https://www.wine-staging.com/news/2018-02-17-future-wine-staging.html
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Quoting: ArehandoroDoes anyone know why Wine 3.1 or 3.2 even has not made yet to Debian sid?
For Debian, use WineHQ repo. Maintainers update Wine packages very rarely for it in the Debian repo.
Last edited by Shmerl on 18 February 2018 at 6:10 am UTC
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Quoting: GuestFor Debian and other distributions use wine-staging. It does support Origin and Uplay when vanilla wine does not. winecfg does have a Staging tab with the csmt option.
Wine staging is gone, so better get used to regular Wine now if you want up to date features.
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Kimyrielle Feb 18, 2018
Sooo...what keeps them from merging the Staging patches into the main branch anyway? If they have been used for that long, should think they are proven to work, no?
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Quoting: KimyrielleSooo...what keeps them from merging the Staging patches into the main branch anyway? If they have been used for that long, should think they are proven to work, no?
Code quality. Many Wine staging patches are hacks that work for some titles and make things worse for others. I.e. there is a benefit of using them selectively when you need a narrow tailored Wine version, but as a whole they can't be accepted upstream.
I suppose Wine developers can work on the most important ones and bring them in shape for the Wine mainline.
Last edited by Shmerl on 18 February 2018 at 6:22 pm UTC
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Quoting: GuestYou are writing about vanilla wine.
Yes. Since now there are no active maintainers for Wine staging, vanilla Wine is the only viable option. That will possibly encourage developers to rework staging patches and upstream them.
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Arehandoro Feb 19, 2018
Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: ArehandoroDoes anyone know why Wine 3.1 or 3.2 even has not made yet to Debian sid?
For Debian, use WineHQ repo. Maintainers update Wine packages very rarely for it in the Debian repo.
I have WineHQ but my latest version is 3.0 anyway :/
Will have to check whether I fiddled with sources at some point and don't remember.
Thanks though!
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