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Just over a year after the last main release, Wine 4.0 is officially here

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You might want to grab a glass for this one, no not that dusty old thing, one of the nice ones. The ones at the back of the cupboard for special occasions! Wine 4.0 is officially here.

Comparing Wine 3.0 to 4.0, naturally it's a pretty huge release. Although, most people have likely been using the development builds for some time.

The highlights of Wine 4.0 are:

  • Multi-Threaded Command Stream is enabled by default
  • Vulkan support.
  • Direct3D 12 support.
  • A lot more Direct3D 10 and 11 features implemented
  • S3TC-compressed 3D textures support
  • Game controllers support.
  • High-DPI support on Android.

There's a huge amount more, so for those interested I do suggest reading the detailed official announcement here. Cheers to the Wine team, here's to a fun development cycle towards Wine 5.0.

Now that it's out, I imagine Proton for Steam Play will begin moving over to Wine 4.0 to bring in plenty of fixes and improvements since Proton is currently based on Wine 3.16.

I was going to make a pun, but I thought it would be in pour taste.

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Segata Sanshiro Jan 23, 2019
QuoteI was going to make a pun, but I thought it would be in pour taste.

It's getting to a point where I read the Wine articles for these puns instead of the development updates.
elmapul Jan 23, 2019
Quoting: massatt212wish they did some improvements on the DX9 department, still have games like ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3 stuttering

stuttering in a few games can be solved by having an better hardware (or closing backgrounds programs if they are ressource intensive)
somebody1121 Jan 23, 2019
So, when will we have proton 4.0?
mrdeathjr Jan 23, 2019
Quoting: Patola
Quoting: elmapul
Quoting: massatt212wish they did some improvements on the DX9 department, still have games like ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3 stuttering
stuttering in a few games can be solved by having an better hardware (or closing backgrounds programs if they are ressource intensive)
No, that's not it.

There is a weird issue with some DirectX9 titles where either it runs smoothly or it runs really slow, even on high-end machines.

A good example is X-Blades. Under Wine 4.0-rc6 it stutters.

Under Proton it stutters.

Under wine-staging is stutters.

But under the snap steamforwindows, which uses wine-staging 3.10, it doesn't.

...and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines, this one consistently stutters

In my case various dx9 titles works ok, in various cases as other said with better hardware improve*

*For this reason have my cpu at 5.0ghz / 215 cinebench single thread

Case:























































































































And many other games including various unreal engine 3 games

However wine have troubles with dx9 and stutter could be stay present in various machines, without forget other issues cases proper vsync support, high single thread use and others

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 23 January 2019 at 12:12 pm UTC
massatt212 Jan 23, 2019
Quoting: Patola
Quoting: elmapul
Quoting: massatt212wish they did some improvements on the DX9 department, still have games like ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3 stuttering

stuttering in a few games can be solved by having an better hardware (or closing backgrounds programs if they are ressource intensive)
No, that's not it. There is a weird issue with some DirectX9 titles where either it runs smoothly or it runs really slow, even on high-end machines. A good example is X-Blades. Under Wine 4.0-rc6 it stutters. Under Proton it stutters. Under wine-staging is stutters. But under the snap steamforwindows, which uses wine-staging 3.10, it doesn't.
...and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines, this one consistently stutters


Use the crack exe and it wont stutter Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines
Cyril Jan 23, 2019
So now Wine can handle most of the "modern" games with Vulkan support?
What's the point to use DXVK?
In which case DXVK is better than Wine 4 and vice versa?
Maybe I didn't understand something.
Comandante Ñoñardo Jan 23, 2019
Quoting: mrdeathjr
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI wonder if with this version on wine Bioshock 2 and Crysis can work in DX10.

In my case crysis 32bit DX10 works ok with proton, maybe can add in future test

^_^

Out of the box?
Dunc Jan 24, 2019
Hmm. Feels more stuttery with The Witcher 3 than... well, actually it was 4.0rc6, now I come to think of it. Strange. I might downgrade just to confirm it isn't anything else.
mrdeathjr Jan 24, 2019
Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo
Quoting: mrdeathjr
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI wonder if with this version on wine Bioshock 2 and Crysis can work in DX10.

In my case crysis 32bit DX10 works ok with proton, maybe can add in future test

^_^

Out of the box?

Yeah with lastest proton beta curiously



^_^
qptain Nemo Jan 25, 2019
I don't know how many people will care, especially since you can't buy this game anymore but the graphical artifacts in Test Drive Unlimited 2 are finally gone.
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