Wine 9.9 brings more ARM and Wow64 improvements

By Liam Dawe - 20 May 2024 at 9:55 am UTC

Wine 9.9 was released Friday as the latest development release for the Windows compatibility layer to run more apps and games on Linux.

Here's the highlights:

Support for new Wow64 mode in ODBC.
Improved CPU detection on ARM platforms.
Removal of a number of obsolete features in WineD3D.
Various bug fixes.

38 bugs were marked as solved too including issues for: Shadowgrounds Survivor, Crysis 2, Syberia (GOG), Dweebs and Dweebs 2, Assassin's Creed Unity, Cybernoid 2, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Total War: Shogun 2, Moorhuhn Director's Cut, Final Fantasy XI Online, FlatOut 1, Fallout 3, Spelunky and more.

Pictured - Assassin's Creed Unity

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, New Release, Open Source, Wine

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mrdeathjr 20 May 2024

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with this wine version appear new build dependency, libodbc

![link](https://i.imgur.com/nPGpYwa.png)

however in my case with xubuntu 24.04 dont show installed (libodbc and libodbc dev files stay installed)

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