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The Wine 11.16 development release is officially out now bringing further enhancements to running Windows games / apps on Linux. With this release there's been more of a focus on ARM64 support improvements!

More info - Wine is one of the main bits of software that powers Valve's incredible Proton (along with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton)! Enabling tens of thousands of games to run on SteamOS / Steam Deck / Steam Machine and hopefully soon the Steam Frame.

highlights of wine 11.16
  • Mono engine updated to version 11.3.0, including ARM64 support.

  • Hardware video decoding using VA-API.

  • Improved exception handling on ARM64EC.

  • Various bug fixes.

There's 35 noted bug fixes for various types of expected behaviour to match closer to Windows, along with a few fixes to improve games like Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, Star Citizen, Ignition, the Steam app and plenty more.

🌐 External Sources: gitlab.winehq.org
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mrdeathjr 22 Aug 2026
This wine version in my case fix very annoying bug present in some games, maybe this bug can stay related with this:

X11 fullscreen borderless

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this problem show a white space in upper part of screen where appear app window border, normally this space dont appear

and test with lego the movie (this game show this problem) and problem are fixed

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thanks to gog forums now is possible pass dance part

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this bug is really annoying because characters still waiting dont matter what happen

but now need have XAudio2_7 as native but in my case add this:

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Avehicle7887 22 Aug 2026
Quoting: mrdeathjrThis wine version in my case fix very annoying bug present in some games, maybe this bug can stay related with this:

X11 fullscreen borderless

this problem show a white space in upper part of screen where appear app window border, normally this space dont appear

and test with lego the movie (this game show this problem) and problem are fixed

thanks to gog forums now is possible pass dance part

this bug is really annoying because characters still waiting dont matter what happen

but now need have XAudio2_7 as native but in my case add this:

😀
You're probably tired of me asking this but, does this solve the ELDERBORN fmv issues? And maybe Darksiders too if you have that installed on hand.

Thanks for all your testing.
mrdeathjr 22 Aug 2026
Quoting: Avehicle7887You're probably tired of me asking this but, does this solve the ELDERBORN fmv issues? And maybe Darksiders too if you have that installed on hand.

Thanks for all your testing.
Hi dont matter, in my case for elderborn (this game have a funny phrase in begin: sky is falling XD only can think about chiken little) still dont show cinematics and darksiders dont show nothing using original cinematics format aka wmv

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