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The Wine development team has just put out Wine 3.5, continuing to advance their official Vulkan support.

Here's the highlights:

  • More Vulkan support, including the vulkan-1 loader.
  • Support for RSA and ECDSA cryptographic keys.
  • Improved manifest file parser.
  • Support for the Places toolbar in file dialogs.
  • Various bug fixes.

In previous builds of Wine, to get Vulkan working properly you had to do some manual work. Now that's not the case, as they've put in their own minimal Vulkan loader.

In regards to bug fixes, they noted 58 fixed up until this release. These include problems sorted in games like Empire Earth, Age of Mythology, Battlefield 3, Starcraft 2, The Witcher 3 and more.

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Egonaut Mar 31, 2018
Quoting: GuestSorry to sound dumb, but how do I enable this Vulkan-Loader?
You don't, it is enabled by default since Wine 3.5.

However, I found out that I've had to delete the Windows folder from my previous generated Wineprefix to have it work. Probably some previous created libraries don't work together with Wine 3.5 and delete the whole Windows folder is the easiest way.

If you have added any registry keys before (Wine-Vulkan), you should remove those as well. Those aren't needed with Wine 3.5 and might create conflicts.


Last edited by Egonaut on 31 March 2018 at 5:48 pm UTC
JudasIscariot Mar 31, 2018
Wine Staging 3.5 has just been released.

https://repos.wine-staging.com/alesliehughes/

Summary of the past few weeks
* Rebased to current wine 3.5 (950 patches are applied to wine vanilla)
* All existing bcrypt patches accepted upstream (Thank Hans for reviewing)
* Removed patches that have already being fixed upstream.
* Reviewed and upstreamed patches.

Fixes
* Corrected 1D Texture support.

New Patches
* Added support for Implicit MTA.
* Added more ntoskrnl stubs for BattlEye service
* Added support for fucntion BCryptDeriveKeyPBKDF2
* Added function _crtCaptureCurrentContext for Rise of the Tomb Raider
Mar2ck Mar 31, 2018
Quoting: GuestA tutorial for installing DXVK on Lutris would be great. I've tried it but im dumb.
The person who wrote the DXVK scripts for lutris has a tutorial showing how to install it in any wineprefix: View video on youtube.com
Arehandoro Apr 1, 2018
I can't seem to be able to install Galaxy/Origin with this version :/
pete910 Apr 1, 2018
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Does doom 2016 work with this? still on 2.21
DoctorJunglist Apr 1, 2018
Quoting: Mar2ck
Quoting: GuestA tutorial for installing DXVK on Lutris would be great. I've tried it but im dumb.
The person who wrote the DXVK scripts for lutris has a tutorial showing how to install it in any wineprefix: View video on youtube.com
Well, since this wine version, as it already comes with bundled Vulkan, there's no need to install the Vulkan SDK / run installvulkan.sh from dxvk-tools.

Now only the basic steps are needed:cd /your/dxvk/directory/bin
WINEPREFIX=/your/wineprefix bash setup_dxvk.sh


For most games 64bit dxvk is needed I think, though some require 32bit - eg Assasins Creed IV.

The lastest nightlies can be downloaded from here.
De1m0s Apr 1, 2018
Quoting: JudasIscariotWine Staging 3.5 has just been released.

https://repos.wine-staging.com/alesliehughes/

Summary of the past few weeks
* Rebased to current wine 3.5 (950 patches are applied to wine vanilla)
* All existing bcrypt patches accepted upstream (Thank Hans for reviewing)
* Removed patches that have already being fixed upstream.
* Reviewed and upstreamed patches.

Fixes
* Corrected 1D Texture support.

New Patches
* Added support for Implicit MTA.
* Added more ntoskrnl stubs for BattlEye service
* Added support for fucntion BCryptDeriveKeyPBKDF2
* Added function _crtCaptureCurrentContext for Rise of the Tomb Raider

Interesting; which one can i use for Linux Mint?
gojul Apr 1, 2018
The Witcher 3 GOTY works like a charm w/ this release (except a bit of lag from time to time but not that much) ! Thanks to them for all this hard work !
qptain Nemo Apr 1, 2018
Quoting: gojulThe Witcher 3 GOTY works like a charm w/ this release (except a bit of lag from time to time but not that much) ! Thanks to them for all this hard work !
Any water or monster rendering issues you can see?
Shmerl Apr 2, 2018
Quoting: gojulThe Witcher 3 GOTY works like a charm w/ this release

Do you get a good performance with wined3d now?
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