For you Wine lovers who also support Codeweavers and Wine development, a new version 15.0.1 is now available.
The major change is that this release brings in the actual final Wine 1.8 release.
See the full changelog here.
Opinion stuff below
I have somewhat relaxed about my stance on Wine in recent years, and I think it's a really useful bit of software. There are plenty of games that will probably never, ever come to Linux and it's useful to not have to give up things you love.
I ended up buying a copy of CrossOver myself to help support it. I only use it for one game which is Starcraft 2, as there just isn't an experience like it on Linux, and I've played it since it very first came out. I'm a fan, and I don't want to give it up because of my own choice to move fully to Linux years ago. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The major change is that this release brings in the actual final Wine 1.8 release.
See the full changelog here.
Opinion stuff below
I have somewhat relaxed about my stance on Wine in recent years, and I think it's a really useful bit of software. There are plenty of games that will probably never, ever come to Linux and it's useful to not have to give up things you love.
I ended up buying a copy of CrossOver myself to help support it. I only use it for one game which is Starcraft 2, as there just isn't an experience like it on Linux, and I've played it since it very first came out. I'm a fan, and I don't want to give it up because of my own choice to move fully to Linux years ago. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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i still play Diablo 3 from time to time, but mainly Hearthstone is the only game on wine i play almost every day. I've been playing Hearthstone on Wine since the end of beta. maybe one day, we'll see some native games from Blizzard since they are a contributor of Vulkan.
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Arehandoro Jan 15, 2016
Quoting: ungutknutHeroes of might and magic III, Settlers IV, Flatout 2, Dirt 3, Skyrim... these are games I really wouldn't like to miss. So Wine is pretty important to me. And it works much better than I initially expected.
I have problems with few games myself too, i.e Alpha Protocol, but I managed to run first KoToR and The Last Remnant last month.
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wintermute Jan 15, 2016
Quoting: Mountain ManI haven't had much luck playing Steam games through Wine. I tried Lego Lord of the Rings and got some strange error that it couldn't access the graphics device.
From the WineHQ page for this game it seems like you need to install d3dx9_41, xact and xinput with winetricks. I had no trouble getting Lego Harry Potter to run in my standard Steam wineprefix (where I have those things set up already), I expect they're all on the same engine.
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