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Released late yesterday, the Wine team officially put out a new development release with Wine 4.5 now available.

Highlights from this release:

  • Support for Vulkan 1.1.
  • Better support for kernel objects in device drivers.
  • Still more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
  • Support for SVG elements in MSHTML.
  • Fixes for case conversion troubles in Turkish locale.

They also noted another round of bug fixes, with 30 in total marked as solved. As always, some might have been fixed in earlier released and only noticed now. Of those bugs it includes issues fixed with The Sims, League Of Legends, Settlers III and more.

Once they get Media Foundation APIs solid, that should be another big tick for a lot of games that currently have issues. It's certainly going to be interested to watch Wine evolve along with Steam Play, since Valve's contracted work with CodeWeavers has already helped.

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11 comments

mrdeathjr Mar 30, 2019
This wine version can recognize geforce RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 / 2080ti (thanks to Sveinar Søpler patch) and have more work related mfplat


F1 Race Stars

![](https://i.imgur.com/jWOQ4uK.png)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOTUpJwGp5M

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-41-sZZeo


Grid 2

![](https://i.imgur.com/sS90bEd.png)

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3d6-lwJcGQ


Aviones

![](https://i.imgur.com/Yhb8BEU.png)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-0tivqiV-A

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjVB0-2ptw



And this is some examples with some titles using staging


Yakuza 0

![](https://i.imgur.com/e3n0FDJ.png)

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLHwSdNXxQ


Lego The Movie 2

![](https://i.imgur.com/QnMpmMb.png)

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJbDkSnMHgo


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 30 March 2019 at 11:37 am UTC
walther von stolzing Mar 30, 2019
I wonder what the 'case conversion troubles in the Turkish locale' were. Probably has to do with the fact that lowercase 'i' in Turkish has its uppercase counterpart in 'İ' [capital I with a dot on top], while uppercase 'I' becomes 'ı' in lowercase [miniscule 'i' without the dot].
Avehicle7887 Mar 30, 2019
I've tested Darksiders - Warmastered Edition with this release, FMV's are still a no go even with this release (staging patches included).
Tuxgamer Mar 30, 2019
How did you get F1 Racing stars to run?
I don't have any luck and using 4.2 proton

This wine version can recognize geforce RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 / 2080ti (thanks to Sveinar Søpler patch) and have more work related mfplat


F1 Race Stars

![](https://i.imgur.com/jWOQ4uK.png)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOTUpJwGp5M

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-41-sZZeo


Grid 2

![](https://i.imgur.com/sS90bEd.png)

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3d6-lwJcGQ


Aviones

![](https://i.imgur.com/Yhb8BEU.png)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-0tivqiV-A

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjVB0-2ptw



And this is some examples with some titles using staging


Yakuza 0

![](https://i.imgur.com/e3n0FDJ.png)

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLHwSdNXxQ


Lego The Movie 2

![](https://i.imgur.com/QnMpmMb.png)

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJbDkSnMHgo
mrdeathjr Mar 30, 2019
How did you get F1 Racing stars to run?
I don't have any luck and using 4.2 proton

Yeah curiously in my case also dont run in proton but works in wine as your said

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 30 March 2019 at 10:48 pm UTC
massatt212 Mar 30, 2019
can some one try Injustice 2 (DXVK0.92 doesnt work with some newer tested on window) and Street fighter V
TheRiddick Mar 31, 2019
Once Star Citizen 3.5 drops I'll download it and give it a shot, see how she runs. I hear 3.5 has performance improvements worth talking about... we will see.

Can't wait for when SC gets Vulkan, that will just be amazeballs...
Shmerl Mar 31, 2019
Unfortunately, faudio is stuck for example with entering Debian, so it's not recommended upgrading Wine past 4.2, unless you have faudio ready.
BielFPs Mar 31, 2019
Still more Media Foundation APIs implemented.

Does someone knows if this could improve something with wine games?
Shmerl Mar 31, 2019
Can't wait for when SC gets Vulkan, that will just be amazeballs...

What's the story with Star Citizen in general? When is single player campaign coming out, and how much of the multiplayer universe is ready? Last time I've looked into it, it was just a tiny prototype.
t3g Apr 1, 2019
Still more Media Foundation APIs implemented.

Does someone knows if this could improve something with wine games?

Hopefully Resident Evil 2 and 7
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