Wine 3.11 and Wine Staging 3.11 both got released recently

By Liam Dawe - 25 June 2018 at 9:49 am UTC

Wine 3.11 (insert joke about Wine for Workgroups 3.11) is the latest development release of the compatibility layer allowing you to play Windows games on Linux.

Here's the highlights from the latest release:

More debugger support for Wow64 processes.
Support for sha256/sha384 hashes in ECDSA signatures.
Better reporting of hyper-threaded CPUs.
Improvements to the standard Task Dialog.

In terms of bugs they noted as being fixed there's only 12 this time around. Do remember though, that the number could be a lot higher. A lot of these are based on user reports of issues being solved.

We've also just seen the release of Wine Staging 3.11, although I don't really know what they're doing lately since they don't post changelogs since the change in developers. You can see some of what's changed thanks to being able to compare on GitHub, although that's really quite technical stuff and not exactly easy to comprehend. I miss the proper changelogs, they were nice for a dum-dum like me to keep up to date on it.

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TheRiddick Jun 25, 2018

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The bug fix done to Mod Organizer 2.1.2+ usvfs system isn't a 100% fix, all it does is allow it to load but not mount anything sadly. Maybe next time.

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Ehvis Jun 25, 2018

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Quoting: TheRiddickThe bug fix done to Mod Organizer 2.1.2+ usvfs system isn't a 100% fix, all it does is allow it to load but not mount anything sadly. Maybe next time.

Let me guess, Mod Organiser is a .NET application?

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TheRiddick Jun 25, 2018

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I don't think MO2 is, but possibly the usvfs system is. I might install dotnet462slim but I doubt it will make any different (hasn't in the past).

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mrdeathjr Jun 25, 2018

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In this wine version roderick colenbrander cpu patch has been approved (maybe farcry 3 can improve on ryzen cpus)

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Quoting: mrdeathjrIn this wine version roderick colenbrander cpu patch has been approved (maybe farcry 3 can improve on ryzen cpus)

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Hi , you look like a hardcore Wine user. Can you help me with Skyrim LE?

I'm on 3.11 Staging and running Skyrim SE but i have problems with it.

Shadows and textures are glitchy. There are some advices about disabling nvapi but look like it is not relevant. Only nvapi64 is on there and disabling it is not helping.

Input lag. I have mouse/keyboard lag with that game.

Underwater is not rendering at all.

Some keys do not work , like I for accessing inventory.

How did you end up running correctly without problems?

Nvidia 396.24.2 driver

Last edited by Leopard on 25 June 2018 at 6:12 pm UTC

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nox Jun 25, 2018

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Quoting: LeopardHi , you look like a hardcore Wine user. Can you help me with Skyrim SE?

I'm on 3.11 Staging and running Skyrim SE but i have problems with it.

Shadows and textures are glitchy. There are some advices about disabling nvapi but look like it is not relevant. Only nvapi64 is on there and disabling it is not helping.

Input lag. I have mouse/keyboard lag with that game.

Underwater is not rendering at all.

Some keys do not work , like I for accessing inventory.

How did you end up running correctly without problems?

Nvidia 396.24.2 driver

Isn't Skyrim SE DX11? In which case you should give DXVK a go :)

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yar4e Jun 25, 2018

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Finally! After 7 years of existence bug with flickering sky in Mafia 2 was fixed in 3.11! Now the game runs near perfect!

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Leopard Jun 25, 2018

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Quoting: nox
Quoting: LeopardHi , you look like a hardcore Wine user. Can you help me with Skyrim SE?

I'm on 3.11 Staging and running Skyrim SE but i have problems with it.

Shadows and textures are glitchy. There are some advices about disabling nvapi but look like it is not relevant. Only nvapi64 is on there and disabling it is not helping.

Input lag. I have mouse/keyboard lag with that game.

Underwater is not rendering at all.

Some keys do not work , like I for accessing inventory.

How did you end up running correctly without problems?

Nvidia 396.24.2 driver

Isn't Skyrim SE DX11? In which case you should give DXVK a go :)

Woops , sorry. I meant LE but somehow wrote SE :D

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silentprocyon Jun 25, 2018

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QuoteWe've also just seen the release of Wine Staging 3.11, although I don't really know what they're doing lately since they don't post changelogs since the change in developers. You can see some of what's changed thanks to being able to compare on GitHub, although that's really quite technical stuff and not exactly easy to comprehend. I miss the proper changelogs, they were nice for a dum-dum like me to keep up to date on it.

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Liam Dawe Jun 25, 2018

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Quoting: silentprocyon
QuoteWe've also just seen the release of Wine Staging 3.11, although I don't really know what they're doing lately since they don't post changelogs since the change in developers. You can see some of what's changed thanks to being able to compare on GitHub, although that's really quite technical stuff and not exactly easy to comprehend. I miss the proper changelogs, they were nice for a dum-dum like me to keep up to date on it.

The staging devs have been putting a short changelog with each release on the Wine mailing list...
* 3.3 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-March/123733.html
* 3.4 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-March/124381.html
* 3.5 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-March/125186.html
* 3.6 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-April/125702.html
* 3.7 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-April/126357.html
* 3.8 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-May/126817.html
* 3.9 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-May/127426.html
* 3.10 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-June/128255.html
* 3.11 --- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-June/128739.html

To keep an eye on a staging release, just adjust this URL accordingly to whatever month it is...
https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-June/thread.html

Good to know, strange that's not on the github too.

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Comandante Ñoñardo Jun 26, 2018

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Is Captain Spirit playable via WINe?

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adamhm Jun 26, 2018

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Quoting: yar4eFinally! After 7 years of existence bug with flickering sky in Mafia 2 was fixed in 3.11! Now the game runs near perfect!

The flickering sky issue with Mafia 2 is still present with 3.11/3.11-staging. The shadows issue was actually fixed with Wine 3.7 but was only officially closed with this release.

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yar4e Jun 27, 2018

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Quoting: adamhm
Quoting: yar4eFinally! After 7 years of existence bug with flickering sky in Mafia 2 was fixed in 3.11! Now the game runs near perfect!

The flickering sky issue with Mafia 2 is still present with 3.11/3.11-staging. The shadows issue was actually fixed with Wine 3.7 but was only officially closed with this release.

Ha! Then sorry for disinformation. Don't have time to check it by myself yet. Then need to open new issue about flickering sky if there isn't already and wait another 7 years :)

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