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What a grape day, Wine 4.9 is officially out

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I know, that pun attempt hurt my head too. You try and keep this going for months! Today, the Wine team have put out the Wine 4.9 development release as expected with new features and assorted bug fixes.

Release highlights:

  • Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.
  • Support for building 16-bit modules in PE format.
  • A lot of code moved to the new KernelBase DLL.
  • Various game controller fixes.
  • Use higher performance system clocks if available.

As for bug fixes, this time around they noted 24 now marked as solved. As per usual, some may be bugs fixed in previous releases only now being found. These include World of Tanks, Osmos, Grand Prix Legends, Spellforce 3, Rogue Squadron 3D and more.

You can see the full release notes here.

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mrdeathjr May 24, 2019
This wine version have some work related .net and some input regressions

With d9vk still working

Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD



However works correctly until pass door in chapter 1-2 when need emblem key, after this fps fall to 10fps

Last test with Pentium G3220 @ 3.0ghz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iZTXoEzHHY

D9VK with Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LA0zofBjkA


And dxvk still working

Titan Quest Anniversary



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eGqehP3Hws

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4dcc6dGobs

DXVK With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB52BZukLJ0


^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 25 May 2019 at 1:36 pm UTC
Arehandoro May 24, 2019
So much Wine is going to ferment the site into the Planet of the Grapes.
iwantlinuxgames May 24, 2019
QuoteInitial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.

anyone who can explain what this means?
Koopacabras May 24, 2019
TheSHEEEP May 25, 2019
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You should file a bug report on the wine tracker, asking for less frequent releases or releasing puns along with new versions to alleviate the pun pressure on news outlets.
gradyvuckovic May 25, 2019
Quoting: iwantlinuxgames
QuoteInitial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.

anyone who can explain what this means?

Likewise would love to know what this implies.
aislan May 25, 2019
Office 2016, when is it officially supported ???
Purple Library Guy May 25, 2019
Quoting: gradyvuckovic
Quoting: iwantlinuxgames
QuoteInitial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.

anyone who can explain what this means?

Likewise would love to know what this implies.
I'm no expert, but I'm old so I remember the term. So, back in the day, if you had peripherals for your computer you'd have to have a driver for it; peripherals often came with CDs that had a driver for you to install. The internet was barely a thing and didn't have that kind of useful stuff on it--or a little later, it did, somewhere, but actually finding it would be a massive pain. I believe plug-and-play was Windows' marketing term for their first attempt to have pre-built drivers for various stuff already in the OS so you could plug in a thing and have it supposedly Just Work. Something like that. This was back in the Windows 95/98/like that era.
TheSHEEEP May 25, 2019
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Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: gradyvuckovic
Quoting: iwantlinuxgames
QuoteInitial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.

anyone who can explain what this means?

Likewise would love to know what this implies.
I'm no expert, but I'm old so I remember the term. So, back in the day, if you had peripherals for your computer you'd have to have a driver for it; peripherals often came with CDs that had a driver for you to install. The internet was barely a thing and didn't have that kind of useful stuff on it--or a little later, it did, somewhere, but actually finding it would be a massive pain. I believe plug-and-play was Windows' marketing term for their first attempt to have pre-built drivers for various stuff already in the OS so you could plug in a thing and have it supposedly Just Work. Something like that. This was back in the Windows 95/98/like that era.
If we assume that, I guess they might be talking about some very odd/specific peripherals that still to this day require a driver installation of some kind.
legluondunet May 25, 2019
Quoting: aislanOffice 2016, when is it officially supported ???

Oh please, support OSS instead, LibreOffice is a very nice MS Office replacement.
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