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PayPalDid you miss our Wine release day puns? Well good news! I've pressed them into service and aged them to perfection so they have returned along with the Wine 5.8 release that's now available.
Hold up. What's this Wine then if not an incredibly tasty liquid that you need to drink responsibly? Wine is a compatibility layer that can enable Windows software (and plenty of games) to run on Linux.
There's a bunch of new features in Wine 5.8, here's the highlights:
- Support for Plug & Play device notifications.
- More support for building with Clang in MSVC mode.
- Still more progress on the WineD3D Vulkan backend.
- Initial implementation of a GIF encoder.
- Vulkan spec update.
As for bugs squashed, the Wine team noted 44 as solved. Some are from older releases that have been noticed recently and ticked off the list, while others were actually fixed in this release. These include issues solved for: Warcraft 3, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, Riot Vanguard, Legends of Runeterra, Anno 1701 an issue plaguing many games in the previous Wine 5.7 release was also solved and more.
See more on the official Wine website.
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Pattedetable 8 May 2020
Thank you for the puns, they put a smile on my face! :)
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I prefer cider, personally. But we don't really have that as software.
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I prefer cider, personally. But we don't really have that as software.
TransGaming's proprietary "Wine for Apples" was called Cider.
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Comandante Ñoñardo 8 May 2020
I wonder when We gonna see this on Proton.
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Avehicle7887 8 May 2020
Another exciting release. I'll re-run my usual mfplat tests tomorrow to see if anything's changed since the past 2 weeks.
On another note, Philip Rebohle (DXVK) has been working heavily on VKD3D (DX12 Support) at this repo: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d which in turn gets merged into https://github.com/d3d12/vkd3d
On another note, Philip Rebohle (DXVK) has been working heavily on VKD3D (DX12 Support) at this repo: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d which in turn gets merged into https://github.com/d3d12/vkd3d
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Another exciting release. I'll re-run my usual mfplat tests tomorrow to see if anything's changed since the past 2 weeks.
On another note, Philip Rebohle (DXVK) has been working heavily on VKD3D (DX12 Support) at this repo: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d which in turn gets merged into https://github.com/d3d12/vkd3d
In my case catherine remains equal black screen
^_^
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Something's up. Four bug reports involving Riot Vanguard anticheat were worked on and closed by Julliard himself, within one week.
Take a look at these still outstanding bugs for Valorant linking against Riot. Considering how fast the wine developers pushed out BCrypt for Doom, it doesn't look like it will take long.
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Take a look at these still outstanding bugs for Valorant linking against Riot. Considering how fast the wine developers pushed out BCrypt for Doom, it doesn't look like it will take long.
- 27248 (staging)
- 45666 (staging)
- 48981 (imports from BCrypt?)
- 48986 (stubbed out)
- 48988
- 48989 (patch sent)
- 48991
- 48997/li]
Last edited by sr_ls_boy on 9 May 2020 at 2:22 am UTC
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Is this release able to run Star Citizen? Unfortunately 5.7 had a regression with this game, bug 49007
No the revert didn't get merged :/
But we provide patched lutris runners for SC here: https://github.com/snatella/wine-runner-sc/releases :)
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I wonder when We gonna see this on Proton.
I guess it's wise to wait with a Proton rebase until e.g. support for Media Foundation is completed. There's currently a lot of work going on for this topic afaik.
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Avehicle7887 9 May 2020
Time for the Wine o'clock news:
mfplat: Shadow Warrior 2 - Still no videos
mfplat: Darksiders 3 - Still no intro video
mfplat/fixes: Outward - Still no intro, however the game now runs again (was broken as of Wine 5.7)
vkd3d/dx12: Deus Ex Mankind Divided - Game seems more stable (at least in my case) with latest vkd3d git. Performance is still superior with DXVK, but nice to see DX12 support improving.
A fine Wine release I might say.
mfplat: Shadow Warrior 2 - Still no videos
mfplat: Darksiders 3 - Still no intro video
mfplat/fixes: Outward - Still no intro, however the game now runs again (was broken as of Wine 5.7)
vkd3d/dx12: Deus Ex Mankind Divided - Game seems more stable (at least in my case) with latest vkd3d git. Performance is still superior with DXVK, but nice to see DX12 support improving.
A fine Wine release I might say.
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slaapliedje 10 May 2020
Ha, yeah I was going to same thing.I prefer cider, personally. But we don't really have that as software.
TransGaming's proprietary "Wine for Apples" was called Cider.
I do wish CiderPress would be fully lorted to Linux, so I wouldn't need a windows VM to copy files to my compact flash card I use on my Apple IIGS.
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Don't forget to check out the latest Proton-GE 5.8 with the Media Framework included: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/5.8-GE-1-MF
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Last edited by t3g on 12 May 2020 at 2:23 am UTC
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On another note, Philip Rebohle (DXVK) has been working heavily on VKD3D (DX12 Support) at this repo: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d which in turn gets merged into https://github.com/d3d12/vkd3dTo clarify, the second repo has nothing to do with us whatsoever. Please ignore that it exists.
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