Now that the big stable Wine 6.0 release is out for the Windows compatibility layer, work begins again on another year of pulling in major new features with Wine 6.1 out now.
For newer readers and Linux users here's a refresher - Wine is a compatibility layer built for operating systems like Linux, macOS and BSD. The idea is to allow other platforms to run games and applications only built and supported for Windows. It's also part of what makes up Steam Play Proton. Once a year or so, all the development is bundled into a stable release.
This is a fresh development release which includes these highlights:
- Arabic text shaping.
- More WinRT support in WIDL.
- VKD3D version 1.2 is used for Direct3D 12.
- Support for Rosetta's memory layout on M1 Macs.
- Support for Thumb-2 mode on ARM.
- Various bug fixes.
They also noted 37 bug fixes including problems solved for the likes of: Banished, The Witcher 3, Sniper Elite V2, Batman: Arkham Origins, The Sims 3, Battle.net, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and others.
See the release announcement here.
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Is there a way to play Battlefield 4 on Linux?
Apparently so: https://www.protondb.com/app/1238860. Although it looks like you have to run some commands to fix the server browser to display ping times.
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TheRiddick Jan 30, 2021
I was playing around with some GTA5 mods the other day and noticed some use DotNet4.8 script injection, and dotnet48 can't be installed on newer wine versions. The recommendation is to install wine-mono which got rid of errors but also the mods just didn't appear to work also.. shrug.
Wish I could launcher straight into GTA5 for testing, damn launchers are the bane of these games, its a launcher within a launcher within a launcher situation, bloody annoying! (for single player)
Wish I could launcher straight into GTA5 for testing, damn launchers are the bane of these games, its a launcher within a launcher within a launcher situation, bloody annoying! (for single player)
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... and dotnet48 can't be installed on newer wine versions...AFAIK .NET can be installed with Wine 6.x and winetricks from git
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TheRiddick Jan 31, 2021
AFAIK .NET can be installed with Wine 6.x and winetricks from git
It says on the WINE HQ website it can't. So I do not know. I have tried and it failed on wine5.19 and up I think.
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Avehicle7887 Jan 31, 2021
I was playing around with some GTA5 mods the other day and noticed some use DotNet4.8 script injection, and dotnet48 can't be installed on newer wine versions. The recommendation is to install wine-mono which got rid of errors but also the mods just didn't appear to work also.. shrug.
Wish I could launcher straight into GTA5 for testing, damn launchers are the bane of these games, its a launcher within a launcher within a launcher situation, bloody annoying! (for single player)
You can try installing dotnet4.8 with an older wine version and then upgrading Wine which will update the prefix without removing the files.
I had a similar issue with Batman Arkham Asylum and this method worked for me.
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I was playing around with some GTA5 mods the other day and noticed some use DotNet4.8 script injection, and dotnet48 can't be installed on newer wine versions. The recommendation is to install wine-mono which got rid of errors but also the mods just didn't appear to work also.. shrug.
Wish I could launcher straight into GTA5 for testing, damn launchers are the bane of these games, its a launcher within a launcher within a launcher situation, bloody annoying! (for single player)
You can try installing dotnet4.8 with an older wine version and then upgrading Wine which will update the prefix without removing the files.
I had a similar issue with Batman Arkham Asylum and this method worked for me.
However arkham asylum launcher works with mono in my case
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How do you install Mono, such that these launchers (like Elite:Dangerous) pick it up and run it, instead of .Net? I can't find any guides. Is it as simple as installing the entire Mono stack from your package manager?
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How do you install Mono, such that these launchers (like Elite:Dangerous) pick it up and run it, instead of .Net? I can't find any guides. Is it as simple as installing the entire Mono stack from your package manager?Wine usually installs Mono automatically.
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chris.echoz Feb 1, 2021
Is there a way to play Battlefield 4 on Linux?It runs very well
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How do you install Mono, such that these launchers (like Elite:Dangerous) pick it up and run it, instead of .Net? I can't find any guides. Is it as simple as installing the entire Mono stack from your package manager?Wine usually installs Mono automatically.
Well, sure, I have seen that in the two games I use Lutris for. I take it that's script-specific then on Lutris? And doesn't install automatically on Proton, despite Proton being a tailored wine version?
As I say, I'm interested for things like Elite:Dangerous. Right now, its launcher runs dot47 and fails if it doesn't find it. So how do I tell it to use Mono instead, now that Mono is apparently evolved to the point that you don't need dot47?
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And doesn't install automatically on Proton, despite Proton being a tailored wine version?It looks like Proton installs Mono: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/18#issuecomment-484887026
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