Wine 10.20 released with upgraded vkd3d

By Liam Dawe - 1 Dec 2025 at 10:32 am UTC

The Windows compatibility layer Wine version 10.20 was released over the weekend, here's all the highlights from it.

Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.18.

More support for reparse points.

More refactoring of Common Controls after the v5/v6 split.

Progress dialog for document scanning.

Various bug fixes.

The release notes fixes for MEGA MAN X DiVE Offline, The Last Stand: Aftermath, Spine (Mod starter for Gothic), GenLauncher (Mod manager for GeneralsZH), MS Office 365 installer, Final Fantasy XI Online's PlayOnline Viewer, Geneforge 1 / 2, an issue with games crashing on launch in WoW64 with NVIDIA GPUs, StarCraft and more.

For the vkd3d 1.18 release the changelog for that notes lots of libvkd3d-shader work with improvements for HLSL, the Metal Shading Language (MSL) and the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL).

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, Open Source, Wine

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Shmerl 2 hours ago

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Note that it has a regression affecting Cyberpunk 2077: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9605

For now before the fix is merged, the workaround is to use this:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES=icuin,icuuc=n

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