Wine 2.3 has officially released today and the developers are continuing their work to improve Wine performance and work on Shader Model 5.
For those of you that don't know what "Direct3D command stream" means, it's multithreading to improve performance of games ran in Wine with OpenGL.
Highlights:
- Obsolete wineinstall script removed.
- More Direct3D command stream work.
- A few more Shader Model 5 instructions.
- Better underline rendering in DirectWrite.
- Improved ODBC support on 64-bit.
They also fixed 41 bugs with running Starcraft 2, Final Fantasy XI Online, STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl, Final Fantasy V and plenty more.
I expect Wine-Staging will also have their own 2.3 release within a few days with their usual extras included. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
For those of you that don't know what "Direct3D command stream" means, it's multithreading to improve performance of games ran in Wine with OpenGL.
Highlights:
- Obsolete wineinstall script removed.
- More Direct3D command stream work.
- A few more Shader Model 5 instructions.
- Better underline rendering in DirectWrite.
- Improved ODBC support on 64-bit.
They also fixed 41 bugs with running Starcraft 2, Final Fantasy XI Online, STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl, Final Fantasy V and plenty more.
I expect Wine-Staging will also have their own 2.3 release within a few days with their usual extras included. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Arehandoro Mar 6, 2017
Quoting: ShmerlAnother outside screenshot:
Besides certain shaders still missing (which produces transparent parts, wrong hair color and so on), it looks already pretty good, and the whole thing is fluidly playable (at least on lowest settings for me).
This is definitely good news. Can't wait to 2.4/2.5 releases when we might be able to play it almost out of the box :D
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Quoting: qptain NemoFantastic. Are there any non-graphical issues or does everything function as it should?
So far I didn't notice any non graphical issues.
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Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: qptain NemoFantastic. Are there any non-graphical issues or does everything function as it should?
So far I didn't notice any non graphical issues.
Witcher 3 on Windows has support for the Xbox 360 controller. Have you been successful in getting that to work at all?
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Quoting: JudasIscariotWitcher 3 on Windows has support for the Xbox 360 controller. Have you been successful in getting that to work at all?
I don't have a controller to test at present unfortunately. Feel free to run some tests. Let me know if you need help with building Wine with all needed patches to run it.
FYI: To run TW3 you don't need the complicated WoW64 build, which requires using something like lxc container, and running 32-bit build twice. You can simply build 64-bit Wine with patches from staging and buffer pool hack.
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Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: JudasIscariotWitcher 3 on Windows has support for the Xbox 360 controller. Have you been successful in getting that to work at all?
I don't have a controller to test at present unfortunately. Feel free to run some tests. Let me know if you need help with building Wine with all needed patches to run it.
FYI: To run TW3 you don't need the complicated WoW64 build, which requires using something like lxc container, and running 32-bit build twice. You can simply build 64-bit Wine with patches from staging and buffer pool hack.
Well, I use Arch's PKGBUILD which builds WoW64 Wine for me anyways so I don't have to worry about all that :) I only asked about controller support because the usual workaround (i.e. install x360ce in a prefix, dump some files next to the game's executable) does not work with purely 64-bit games for a number of reasons, the main one having to do with certain dotnet versions just not working in 64-bit prefixes.
I was hoping that the game may see the controller somewhat but perhaps just needs a winetrick or two...
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Avehicle7887 Mar 7, 2017
Staging 2.3 has just been released in PPA Repos. Unfortunately performance in Guild Wars 2 is still 15-20fps less than 2.0 Staging. Meanwhile in Crysis Warhead there's 2-3 FPS more in Wine 2.3.
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FYI: Wine staging 2.3 now includes the buffer patch, which improves TW3 performance.
See https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/commit/f473f9cb80b34e52b2c3d7a867d4d3f4b99f14c7
https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/wined3d-buffer_create/0001-wined3d-Do-not-pin-large-buffers.patch
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See https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/commit/f473f9cb80b34e52b2c3d7a867d4d3f4b99f14c7
https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/wined3d-buffer_create/0001-wined3d-Do-not-pin-large-buffers.patch
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Quoting: Avehicle7887Staging 2.3 has just been released in PPA Repos. Unfortunately performance in Guild Wars 2 is still 15-20fps less than 2.0 Staging. Meanwhile in Crysis Warhead there's 2-3 FPS more in Wine 2.3.
It's also available in the official Arch repos as well :D
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The day Witcher 3 is playable on Wine will be milestone for me. Next steps will be GTA V and Fallout 4.
Having those titles playable will be great and it would be easier to convince people who like playing games to switch to Linux when Windows 7 looses it's support.
Of course there was a moment when Windows XP lost it's support and Linux missed it. One of the reasons was that Wine wasn't mature enough. With Wine in such a good shape it would be a good moment to take a little more from the market.
Microsoft tried to force people to upgrade to Windows 10 because they see the risk of loosing part of the market when support for Windows 7 ends. Unfortunately for them, they put so many questionable solutions to it's newer system, that some people didn't want to upgrade.
If they will have alternative (to Windows) system, that would allow them to play their favorite games and wouldn't spy them on every interaction with the system, they may consider it as a viable alternative.
Having those titles playable will be great and it would be easier to convince people who like playing games to switch to Linux when Windows 7 looses it's support.
Of course there was a moment when Windows XP lost it's support and Linux missed it. One of the reasons was that Wine wasn't mature enough. With Wine in such a good shape it would be a good moment to take a little more from the market.
Microsoft tried to force people to upgrade to Windows 10 because they see the risk of loosing part of the market when support for Windows 7 ends. Unfortunately for them, they put so many questionable solutions to it's newer system, that some people didn't want to upgrade.
If they will have alternative (to Windows) system, that would allow them to play their favorite games and wouldn't spy them on every interaction with the system, they may consider it as a viable alternative.
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