It's Friday, and usually every two weeks it means a new Wine development release is bottled up and ready to go. Today we have Wine 5.6 which brings in more of the recent Media Foundation work.
This ongoing Media Foundation code work is what will help even more games and applications run their video/audio on Linux, when run through Wine. As currently, it's a bit of a blocker for certain titles. As for the rest, the highlights are below:
Improvements to Active Directory LDAP support.
A few more modules converted to PE.
Improvements to gdb proxy mode.
Various bug fixes.
In regards to the bit about Wine modules being converted to PE, looking back this is something Proton (Valve's build of Wine) started doing the same back with Proton 4.11-1 where they said it will "eventually help some DRM and anti-cheat systems"—so it's interesting to see more of this in upstream Wine. Hopefully these are more small steps towards it all.
For the bug fixes marked off as of Wine 5.6, they noted 38 in total. As a reminder though: some bugs are often found fixed in previous versions but still noted as of this release. Apps with fixes include: Warframe, Magic The Gathering Online, Panzer Corps 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Rockstar Games Launcher, Dead Space, Diablo 3, Roblox Studio and more.
Release notes for the Wine 5.6 development release can be found here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
PublicNuisance 10 Apr 2020
[Valve] said it will "eventually help some DRM and anti-cheat systems"—so it's interesting to see more of this in upstream Wine.
Yuck!!! x10000000 :><:
legluondunet 11 Apr 2020
Comandante Ñoñardo 11 Apr 2020
gradyvuckovic 
11 Apr 2020
Chronarius 11 Apr 2020
I'm looking forward to hopefully being able to play Late Shift when Manjaro gets this version of Wine.
Use PlayOnLinux and you are independet from your Distribution
rustybroomhandle 11 Apr 2020
I wonder if this version will be integrated in Proton 5.0-x RC
i guess it will be proton 5.6
Avehicle7887 11 Apr 2020
Shadow Warrior 2 - Since Wine 5.5 the game started displaying an error at launch and then goes to the main menu as normally.
Darksiders 3 - Starting a new video, only sound can be heard no video - file format is MP4.
Outward - Intro video doesn't play confirmed MFplat related from game's log error (WindowsVideoMedia error 0x80004001 while reading C:/OW/Outward_Data/sharedassets0.resource).
PlayOnLinux? Strange way of saying Lutris.
Well, PlayOnLinux is usable and user friendly ;)
Proton/Wine's purpose is to make Windows software run on Linux, warts and all. It's not there to solve civil issues. DRM is an issue that needs to be taken up with the developers/publishers, since they love it so much.
That's hardly an excuse for proliferating it. Wine should run DRM, and allow bypassing it at the same time. That's the right way to do it.
Last edited by Shmerl on 13 Apr 2020 at 4:29 am UTC
gradyvuckovic 14 Apr 2020
Say goodbye to being able to play games via Proton at all.
Look, I'm a simple person, I want to be able to play Windows games on Linux. DRM and Anticheat are separate issues for me. I want Proton to be able to play all games as they are. If a developer has decided to shove DRM into a game, that's unfortunate, but if I really want to play it I will.
If you choose to never install DRM and Anticheat because of your concerns over what that technology can do on your PC, then you can choose to never install those games that use that technology, on either Windows, Linux, or Linux via Proton.
Proton can not remove DRM/Anticheat from games for you, nor should you ask that Proton remain unable to play games that have DRM/Anticheat, because there are people who don't agree with you on that.
Last edited by gradyvuckovic on 14 Apr 2020 at 2:31 pm UTC
PublicNuisance 20 Apr 2020
I'm looking forward to hopefully being able to play Late Shift when Manjaro gets this version of Wine.
Use PlayOnLinux and you are independet from your Distribution
I used to love PlayOnLinux but they don't update the program much anymore. Lutris seems to update more more frequently. Also I just installed POL as a test and checked which Wine versions I could use and 5.5 was still the newest listed.
Last edited by PublicNuisance on 21 Apr 2020 at 6:56 am UTC
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