The latest and greatest in fine Wine [Official Site] is out today with Wine 3.14 filled with features and the usual bug fixes including support for DXTn texture decompression.
Their feature highlights for this version:
- Support for DXTn texture decompression (S3TC).
- Deferral support for MSI install actions.
- Support for Japanese keyboard in DirectInput.
- More improvements in the standard Task Dialog.
- A few more icons in Shell32.
They also noted 36 bug fixes. The usual reminder applies here, not all bugs marked as solved were fixed by this release. Some are old bugs that were fixed some time ago and only now noticed. Notably, they fixed issues with the Battle.net launcher, Cube World, multiple games were crashing with CSMT enabled, Wargaming Game Center had a fix and more.
See the release announcement here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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What is the point of implementing s3tc in wine if it's present in virtually every driver, by the way?
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Quoting: musojon74I've just installed wine after purging my old copy, and following the instructions to put the right repo on and install wine stable. And I now am the proud owner of - Wine 3.02. Also had to fix the steam can't download bug too. Am I missing something? What's the recommended repo these days?
Staging or devel.
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TurtleShark Aug 20, 2018
Quoting: mrdeathjr(AWESOME INFO)
Just wanted to say thank you mrdeathjr. I actually always look in the comments for you every wine release to see whats working now! Thank you!
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qptain Nemo Aug 20, 2018
Quoting: TurtleSharkJust wanted to say thank you mrdeathjr. I actually always look in the comments for you every wine release to see whats working now! Thank you!Pardon the offtopic, but I immediately imagined your avatar saying something like "dear sir, i'd like to kindly request that you provide Linux support for your game".
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TurtleShark Aug 20, 2018
Quoting: qptain NemoQuoting: TurtleSharkJust wanted to say thank you mrdeathjr. I actually always look in the comments for you every wine release to see whats working now! Thank you!Pardon the offtopic, but I immediately imagined your avatar saying something like "dear sir, i'd like to kindly request that you provide Linux support for your game".
"Please good, kind, handsome sirs at CD Project Red, it would be the greatest delight in my life to have the Witcher 3 ported to Linux.
now."
How could they say no? New game DEV strategy?
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Quoting: MayeulCWhat is the point of implementing s3tc in wine if it's present in virtually every driver, by the way?
Some games ask Direct3D to decompress the texture, touch it up a bit, and then send it to the driver. Don't ask me why, but here's an example.
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legluondunet Aug 21, 2018
Incredible:
Some games (DarkSiders, Dark Souls prepare to die edition) had some issues with the gamepad, they didn't detect it or the controls were badly emulated (the famous spinning camera bug).
It seems this problem does not occur anymore if you use Wine 3.14 and https://github.com/kozec/dumbxinputemu dll.
What did the Wine team changed with the xinput emulation?
Some games (DarkSiders, Dark Souls prepare to die edition) had some issues with the gamepad, they didn't detect it or the controls were badly emulated (the famous spinning camera bug).
It seems this problem does not occur anymore if you use Wine 3.14 and https://github.com/kozec/dumbxinputemu dll.
What did the Wine team changed with the xinput emulation?
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