The latest biweekly development release for the Windows translation tool Wine is out, Wine 8.9 as usual brings new features and fixes that will eventually make their way into Steam Play Proton.
Here's the highlights of what's new in Wine 8.9:
- Mono engine updated to version 8.0.0.
- Completion of PE conversion in the PostScript driver.
- Doppler shift support in DirectSound.
- GdiPlus performance improvements.
They also noted in the main changes that more Wayland work was done including these:
- winewayland.drv: Allocate process_wayland statically.
- winewayland.drv: Read and dispatch Wayland events.
- winewayland.drv: Handle dynamic Wayland output events.
- winewayland.drv: Make access to Wayland output information thread-safe.
- winewayland.drv: Update display devices from the desktop window thread.
- winewayland.drv: Update desktop window size on display changes.
For bug fixes some issues were solved for Battlecruiser 3000AD (a bug from 2005!), Need For Speed Underground, two fixes for Battle Net and other miscellaneous bug fixes.
Want help managing Wine on Linux? You can try Bottles, Lutris and the Heroic Launcher.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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This wine have more work related winegstreamer, mfplat, qcap but until test i have until now dont see any changes but if appear something put here
Last edited by mrdeathjr on 29 May 2023 at 2:17 pm UTC
Last edited by mrdeathjr on 29 May 2023 at 2:17 pm UTC
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pleasereadthemanual May 29, 2023
Quoting: liamdWant help managing Wine on Linux? You can try Bottles, Lutris and the Heroic Launcher.What do you think of CrossOver for managing WINE? It got a recent facelift. I think macOS users benefit from it a lot more, because they have far fewer options. The proprietary part of it is the UI, but all changes to WINE and other libraries are released freely, I believe. And naturally, CodeWeavers contribute significantly to WINE, so some money to them for CrossOver is going back to WINE, benefiting the whole community.
I wouldn't normally recommend proprietary software outside of games, but I feel there are exceptional circumstances here.
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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualWhat do you think of CrossOver for managing WINE?
I've used it in the recent past and it worked quite well for my CD-based collection. I mostly launch games through Steam these days. At this point I mostly I use my CrossOver membership to help support development.
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Avehicle7887 May 29, 2023
Quoting: mrdeathjrThis wine have more work related winegstreamer, mfplat, qcap but until test i have until now dont see any changes but if appear something put here
Unity engine games (Elderborn and Greak) no changes, still same issue.
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