The big release is here! The Windows compatibility layer Wine version 10.0 is officially out now bringing lots of big new features. Wine is a major part of what powers Valve's Proton, enabling thousands of Windows games to run on Linux.
Some highlights of what's new includes (compared with Wine 9):
- ARM64EC support
- Wayland support that's enabled by default.
- An FFmpeg-based multimedia back-end as an alternative to the GStreamer backend. Still experimental though, but should hopefully begin to improve Media Foundation support (good for gaming).
- Much improved High-DPI support.
- Network sessions are supported in DirectPlay.
- An initial Bluetooth driver.
- Support for the Dvorak keyboard layout.
And lots more! Full changelog on the Wine GitLab.
Eventually we will see Valve update Proton as well to move it onto Wine 10 and see Proton 10 later this year.
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Linux_Rocks 6 hours ago
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Video playback in games definitely started to get better with recent Wine work. Example - Blood West intro sequences actually work now.
Last edited by Shmerl on 22 Jan 2025 at 9:22 pm UTC
Last edited by Shmerl on 22 Jan 2025 at 9:22 pm UTC
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Would that mean Proton 10 could also move to native Wayland? And would that bring a performance bonus?
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pleasereadthemanual 5 hours ago
The FFMPEG backend is promising.
Would that mean Proton 10 could also move to native Wayland? And would that bring a performance bonus?I'd be interested in whether it brings a performance bonus, but I'd use it anyway so I don't need to see blurry games because I need fractional scaling.
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Would that mean Proton 10 could also move to native Wayland? And would that bring a performance bonus?For clarity, wayland support is enabled in the builds, but it is not the default session and not considered ready for most users yet. What this means is that if Wine can't detect a X server (for example by unsetting the env variable DISPLAY) then it will launch in a wayland session, but otherwise you're still getting XWayland whenever you launch a program in WINE.
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After a year of development this wine have many improvements and other stay in wip but progress are impressive like new wow64* (no more 32bit hell development dependencies if you try building)
https://i.imgur.com/lDK8PLW.png
https://i.imgur.com/Ii8t3RB.png
https://i.imgur.com/0TSImBT.png
*now is possible make wine with both archs using only 64bit development depencies
And finish 2024 remi bernon add ffmpeg, this mode are very usefull for give more compatibility in various titles (cinematics)
Now maybe appear in february next development cycle with wine 10.1
Last edited by mrdeathjr on 22 Jan 2025 at 11:42 pm UTC
https://i.imgur.com/lDK8PLW.png
https://i.imgur.com/Ii8t3RB.png
https://i.imgur.com/0TSImBT.png
*now is possible make wine with both archs using only 64bit development depencies
And finish 2024 remi bernon add ffmpeg, this mode are very usefull for give more compatibility in various titles (cinematics)
Now maybe appear in february next development cycle with wine 10.1
Last edited by mrdeathjr on 22 Jan 2025 at 11:42 pm UTC
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I wonder how wine is now with the resident evil 1 remake on steam
That's one that I remember having issues with video playback years ago
That's one that I remember having issues with video playback years ago
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