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Wine Staging 2.18 is out and as usual it comes with a good bunch of fixes I'm sure many of you will appreciate.

Highlights:

  • Support for ECDSA certificate chains.
  • Vsync handling for d3d10/d3d11.
  • Various smaller bug fixes and improvements.

What they've done this time, is add support for "ECDSA certificate chain verification" which "fixes the login issue in Origin, the connectivity problems in Uplay, the non-working browser in Battle.net and many more applications". It's one of those wide-reaching bugs that's great to see squashed.

Also, the Wine Staging 2.18 release "improves the swap interval handling of Direct3D10/11 games and makes it possible to disable vsync".

On top of all that, they say they've fixed issues with Cuphead and Overwatch. For Overwatch, it seems it no longer needs some extra patches to work, it should just work on Wine Staging.

Stellar work as always from the Wine developers.

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dodrian Oct 4, 2017
I'm really really impressed by all the progress Wine has been making recently. Can someone let me know when it's possible to play Planet Coaster? And maybe Fallout 4...
mrdeathjr Oct 4, 2017
This tests will be make it with staging 2.18 official

Submerged (unreal engine 4) works ok in sound and have some issues in graphics but nothing stop to playing

View video on youtube.com

Motoracer 4 (unreal engine 4) works better and now road is visible (needs csmt for see main menu correctly) but in water road serious errors and sound still bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrNwBDfttwg

This tests will be make it with wine staging daily (give a idea about work), more part of this stay in staging + oficial patches added

Killer Instinct works but only in menus after this if entry in benchmark or arcade mode crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4bTuiWREKY

Prey works good in sound and video, is stable in test

View video on youtube.com

Hellblade Senua Sacrifice works but only until when go to island after this crash (have some errors related in some models), in some scene consume much gpu and break nvidia-smi power limit

Normally have my card with 52.50w as minimum power limit (minimum for my GTX 1050) but in before cited scene up to 60w

View video on youtube.com

Dead Rising 1 DX11 shows characters in main menu and intro but after this game crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lWWzjNQW-g

Pac Man Championship 2 DX11 runs good in video and sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ssviTMWK8

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 5 October 2017 at 9:22 pm UTC
Shmerl Oct 4, 2017
Water looks good in The Witcher 3:



For Mesa, you can use this freeze prevention patch.
ShoNuff!!! Oct 4, 2017
Hmm... Wine team bringing me closer to ditching dual boot. Concentrate on the top 10 played games that linux can't play and I am completely on board.
qptain Nemo Oct 4, 2017
The Hunter Classic now runs in Wine, for the first time as far as I'm aware. Has some visual issues but it runs! It was my favorite "just wander around and chill" game, I've been waiting forever for it to work, almost lost hope.
ElectricPrism Oct 4, 2017
This is as exciting as it was last year to see mesamatrix.net fill in as MESA has grown up.

Wonderful work @all, keep the torch burning and kick some ass -- incredible achievement so far.
Sir_Diealot Oct 4, 2017
Quoting: ShmerlWater looks good in The Witcher 3:



For Mesa, you can use this freeze prevention patch.

So the wine fix for the freeze bug is not in yet?
14 Oct 5, 2017
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That's some great news. While I've steered away from using Wine, once I nuke my Windows 7 installation in the year 2020, there may be a game or two that I can't live without.

Some games that I can live without but would be nice to have:
PUBG
HotS
Skyrim (already beat it, but kinda want to play through it again)
Elder Scrolls Online
Guild Wars 2
Battlefield 4
Starcraft II

Out of those games, I've only been playing PUBG lately. While I would miss playing that with my friends, It's not a road block for me ditching Windows once it loses all support.


Last edited by 14 on 5 October 2017 at 1:32 am UTC
Cr1ogen Oct 5, 2017
Quoting: ShmerlWater looks good in The Witcher 3:



For Mesa, you can use this freeze prevention patch.
Excellent!!


Last edited by Cr1ogen on 5 October 2017 at 4:08 am UTC
Cr1ogen Oct 5, 2017
Quoting: mrdeathjrThis test will be make it with wine staging daily (give a idea about work), more part of this stay in staging + oficial patches added

Killer Instinct works but only in menus after this if entry in benchmark or arcade mode crash

View video on youtube.com

Prey works good in sound and video, is stable in test

View video on youtube.com

Hellblade Senua Sacrifice works but only until when go to island after this crash (have some errors related in some models), in some scene consume much gpu and break nvidia-smi power limit

Normally have my card with 52.50w as minimum power limit (minimum for my GTX 1050) but in before cited scene up to 60w

View video on youtube.com

Dead Rising 1 DX11 shows characters in main menu and intro but after this game crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lWWzjNQW-g

Pac Man Championship 2 DX11 runs good in video and sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ssviTMWK8

^_^

Buen trabajo,muy buenas pruebas!! (Good work!!)
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