Just over a year after the last main release, Wine 4.0 is officially here

In contrast to real life wine, this particular kind of wine is better consumed fresh rather than old, so I guess most of us are using dev builds anyway. But it's great to see that the stable version is out now, so they can once again go to work on new features and improvements! I am really curious to see what they can come up with in the 4.x series, after the giant leaps made in 3.x! :)

In contrast to real life wine, this particular kind of wine is better consumed fresh rather than old, so I guess most of us are using dev builds anyway. But it's great to see that the stable version is out now, so they can once again go to work on new features and improvements! I am really curious to see what they can come up with in the 4.x series, after the giant leaps made in 3.x! :)

Indeed, the 4.0 release is going to be a very interesting one to try and top but as we know it can be improved practically everywhere still. They do face an uphill battle against a moving target after all, especially when it comes to games which all have their own special issues.

Let's see how many bottles we have to drink until this tasty drink lands in a new Proton version. This time I hope I get to drink less!

This wine version conclude rc series and have many improvements if you come from wine 3.0

Nier Automata


Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R5XlLwacL8

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PKTa9JBx04

About video with wine 2.13 will be possible recording with nvenc using wine regular dx11 implementation but actually using dxvk + faudio performance improve around 20 to 30fps depending scene

But now is not possible recording with nvenc because gpu up to 100% and when occur this situation video file recording have bad video and sound

With SSR* cpu recording stay better, sound stay ok and fps indicator appear well (give a better idea about performance)

*With obs give worst results using gpu or cpu compared SSR

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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 22 Jan 2019 at 11:35 pm UTC

I am really curious to see what they can come up with in the 4.x series

I've got some hopes for Direct3D 12/VKD3D

Still waiting for promised Wayland support. May be Wine developers will work on it this cycle.


Last edited by Shmerl on 22 Jan 2019 at 11:25 pm UTC

wish they did some improvements on the DX9 department, still have games like ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3 stuttering

"Direct3D 12 support.
A lot more Direct3D 10 and 11 features implemented"

is the support for Direct3D 9 complete already?

I wonder if with this version on wine Bioshock 2 and Crysis can work in DX10.

I wonder if with this version on wine Bioshock 2 and Crysis can work in DX10.

In my case crysis 32bit DX10 works ok with proton, maybe can add in future test

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 23 Jan 2019 at 2:27 am UTC

I was going to make a pun, but I thought it would be in pour taste.

It's getting to a point where I read the Wine articles for these puns instead of the development updates.

wish they did some improvements on the DX9 department, still have games like ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3 stuttering

stuttering in a few games can be solved by having an better hardware (or closing backgrounds programs if they are ressource intensive)

So, when will we have proton 4.0?

wish they did some improvements on the DX9 department, still have games like ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3 stuttering

stuttering in a few games can be solved by having an better hardware (or closing backgrounds programs if they are ressource intensive)

No, that's not it.

There is a weird issue with some DirectX9 titles where either it runs smoothly or it runs really slow, even on high-end machines.

A good example is X-Blades. Under Wine 4.0-rc6 it stutters.

Under Proton it stutters.

Under wine-staging is stutters.

But under the snap steamforwindows, which uses wine-staging 3.10, it doesn't.

...and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines, this one consistently stutters

In my case various dx9 titles works ok, in various cases as other said with better hardware improve*

*For this reason have my cpu at 5.0ghz / 215 cinebench single thread

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And many other games including various unreal engine 3 games

However wine have troubles with dx9 and stutter could be stay present in various machines, without forget other issues cases proper vsync support, high single thread use and others

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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 23 Jan 2019 at 12:12 pm UTC

wish they did some improvements on the DX9 department, still have games like ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3 stuttering

stuttering in a few games can be solved by having an better hardware (or closing backgrounds programs if they are ressource intensive)

No, that's not it. There is a weird issue with some DirectX9 titles where either it runs smoothly or it runs really slow, even on high-end machines. A good example is X-Blades. Under Wine 4.0-rc6 it stutters. Under Proton it stutters. Under wine-staging is stutters. But under the snap steamforwindows, which uses wine-staging 3.10, it doesn't.
...and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines, this one consistently stutters

Use the crack exe and it wont stutter Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines

So now Wine can handle most of the "modern" games with Vulkan support?
What's the point to use DXVK?
In which case DXVK is better than Wine 4 and vice versa?
Maybe I didn't understand something.

I wonder if with this version on wine Bioshock 2 and Crysis can work in DX10.

In my case crysis 32bit DX10 works ok with proton, maybe can add in future test

^_^

Out of the box?

Hmm. Feels more stuttery with The Witcher 3 than... well, actually it was 4.0rc6, now I come to think of it. Strange. I might downgrade just to confirm it isn't anything else.

I wonder if with this version on wine Bioshock 2 and Crysis can work in DX10.

In my case crysis 32bit DX10 works ok with proton, maybe can add in future test

^_^

Out of the box?

Yeah with lastest proton beta curiously


^_^

I don't know how many people will care, especially since you can't buy this game anymore but the graphical artifacts in Test Drive Unlimited 2 are finally gone.