The Windows compatibility layer Wine 11.17 has been released and with it some new features and plenty of bug fixes.
Quick intro info - Wine is one of the main bits of software that powers Valve's amazing Proton (along with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton)! This enables tens of thousands of games to run on SteamOS / Steam Deck / Steam Machine and hopefully real soon the Steam Frame too.
Key Highlights of wine 11.17
- Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 2.1.
- Initial support for display mode emulation.
- Better support for preferred UI languages.
- Various bug fixes.
44 bug fixes were noted for issues with the likes of: Ground Control, GTA: San Andreas, Marathon, GTA: Vice City, Horizon Chase Turbo, GunBound, Ankh - Anniversary Edition, Dragon Age Inquisition and many more.
🌐 External Sources: gitlab.winehq.org
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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This wine in my case solve a problem with shadow of damned remastered, this issue dont allow play this game because mouse work out of virtual desktop (very rare, character allow use mouse but out of virtual desktop window) but now stay fixed
another interesting result appear with turning point fall of liberty (back to run in my case)
other interesting result in my case stay related with dead rising 1, because this game dont begin in my case, dont pass loading screen (dmo issue i think) in new game but now entry correctly (tested around 5 times with new game)
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another interesting result appear with turning point fall of liberty (back to run in my case)
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other interesting result in my case stay related with dead rising 1, because this game dont begin in my case, dont pass loading screen (dmo issue i think) in new game but now entry correctly (tested around 5 times with new game)
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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 5 Sep 2026 at 5:16 pm UTC
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Quoting: TarosWhat is display mode emulation? ^^I had the same question! The clearest explanation I found was from Phoronix a couple of years ago (emphasis mine):
Alexandros Frantzis continues leading work on the Wine Wayland driver and on Friday sent out the latest patches for enabling display mode change emulation. This support in turn is important for running Windows games on Wine under Wayland full-screen but running at a lower resolution.(External Link: You need to be logged in to view this.)
So it sounds like Wine's getting builtin support for something that you currently need Gamescope for.
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DryPapHmrBro 7 Sep 2026
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation [External link]A hazmat suit may be needed for the comments there!
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