Wine 4.16 is out with 'more reliable mouse grabbing in games'

By Liam Dawe - 13 September 2019 at 9:06 pm UTC

The Wine team have opened up another bottle of the good stuff this evening, with the Wine 4.16 development release now available.

Here's the highlights of what's new:

More reliable mouse grabbing in games.

Better cross-compilation support in WineGCC.

Improved compatibility with Windows debuggers.

Various bug fixes.

For the bug fixes 16 were checked off this list on this round. Issues were fixed with the Epic Games Launcher, Paragon, Super Meat Boy, Hearthstone and more although some are older bugs fixed from previous development releases.

You can find the full release announcement here.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: New Release, Wine

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Shmerl Sep 13, 2019

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Does Dragon Age: Origins work for anyone? It runs without sound for me. Some details here.

I wonder if it's a bug in faudio.

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mrdeathjr Sep 13, 2019

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This wine version have some improvements related mouse behaviour but most important d9vk still works

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kido Sep 14, 2019

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Quoting: kidohttps://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/09/08/a-tragic-loss

Oh no... It feels wrong to "like" your post, but thank you for sharing that; tragic indeed.

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