Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly development release is out now with Wine 7.9. It's a major part of what makes up Steam Play Proton and enables a ton of games to work on the Steam Deck. Once a year or so, a new stable release is made.
Release Highlights:
- Preliminary work towards PE conversion of macOS driver.
- A number of fixes for test failures on Windows.
- Various bug fixes.
With this release 35 bugs were listed as solved like issues for: Stellaris launcher, Cxbx Reloaded, Lego Rock Raiders and various other miscellaneous issues affecting all sorts.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
marcosfs93 May 21, 2022
Wine only get updates in proton after stable releases...
mr-victory May 22, 2022
Stellaris launcher
but Steam still using wine 7.0.And yesterday I was trying to figure out why Paradox launcher was perfectly fine on Wine Staging but blackscreened on Proton 7+.
What Paradox games require you to use the Windows version in the first place?Stellaris launcherbut Steam still using wine 7.0.And yesterday I was trying to figure out why Paradox launcher was perfectly fine on Wine Staging but blackscreened on Proton 7+.
Avehicle7887 May 22, 2022
Yes yes... but Steam still using wine 7.0.
While that's true, doesn't it have custom patches which are not available in more recent Wine releases?
mr-victory May 24, 2022
What Paradox games require you to use the Windows version in the first place?HoI 4. Linux Native was fine except some problems with optimus until I loaded this mod and game crashed when starting round after country selection. Mod works fine on Windows, MacOS and Linux+Proton but not native. It was working 3-4 months ago.
I have to stick to Proton now because the problems with optimus are just unresolvable if I use an older version of HoI 4 and launcher starts rendering once I resize it on Proton.
Last edited by mr-victory on 24 May 2022 at 1:51 pm UTC
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