Wine 10.8 released with user handles in shared memory for better performance

By Liam Dawe - 17 May 2025 at 11:19 am UTC

The Wine 10.8 development release is out now for the Windows compatibility layer bringing with it various bug fixes, along with user handles in shared memory for better performance. And, in case you missed it somehow, Proton 10 that uses Wine 10 is currently in Beta. There was also a new release of GE-Proton using Wine 10 too.

The highlights of the Wine 10.8 release include:

User handles in shared memory for better performance.
Improvements to TIFF image support.
More work on the new PDB backend.
Various bug fixes.

Some bug fixes were noted for Final Fantasy XI Online, Defiance, Vegas Pro 14, Adobe Lightroom Classic 10.4 and other miscellaneous fixes.

Source: Wine GitLab

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, Open Source, Wine

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4 comments

mrdeathjr 11 hours ago

In my case still work using ernst ppa driver, now with vulkan 1.4.315

https://i.imgur.com/Gc6zwWK.png

https://i.imgur.com/Ntnn8f4.png

https://i.imgur.com/v6AENwr.png

in this game (obviously mostly know which game is) curiously dx12 give more benefits in my case, more smoothly frames (around 30fps) with upscalers stay around 50fps

Last edited by mrdeathjr on 17 May 2025 at 11:55 am UTC

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silverhikari 4 hours ago

what game is that?

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tuubi 4 hours ago

Supporter Plus

what game is that?

I think it's Clair Obscur.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903340/Clair_Obscur_Expedition_33/

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mrdeathjr 3 hours ago

if anyone dont know and tuubi as correct, game is clair obscur expedition 33

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