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Wine 4.3 is out with the XAudio2 reimplementation 'FAudio' included

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The Wine 4.3 development release is quite an interesting one, as it includes Ethan Lee's XAudio reimplementation named FAudio.

Quite a big one, since FAudio could help with a lot of audio issues in games and applications. From Lee's own FAudio GitHub page, it notes (for those who didn't already know) the aim is to have "fully accurate DirectX Audio runtime libraries" which includes "XAudio2, X3DAudio, XAPO, and XACT3".

Aside from FAudio, this release also includes:

  • Mono engine updated to the latest upstream.
  • More modern handling of iconic windows.
  • Improved handling of kernel objects.

There's also 45 bugs that were noted as fixed this round. Included in the fixes are bugs squashed with League of Legends, BattlEye, Heroes of Might and Magic VI, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood and others too.

See their release announcement here.

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mrdeathjr Mar 1, 2019
In this wine version include Faudio however in this moment stay talking with various distributions about faudio packaging

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-March/140676.html

And today Faudio put new release 19.03

https://github.com/FNA-XNA/FAudio/releases/tag/19.03

Kron4ek Builds stay avalaible (installation is similar dxvk)

https://github.com/Kron4ek/FAudio-Builds/releases



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With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9nI0NNDCZo


World Racing 2



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_n9blYyNbk

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrduzvOz5gE


Rayman Legends



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QwX7o1I6qo

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99-XL7qjM6M


Larry Box Office Bust



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIgAqP-63m8

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9YaWbfM7NM


Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lVplh9ZtQk

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-knQrlVvaA8


In other issues with this wine coolermaster hyper t4 used with core i3 8350K tri-core 5.0ghz will be upgraded to zalman cnps 10x performa+ (gain around 5 to 6 degrees less)











Maybe in future cooler can be upgraded too for masterfan pro 120 air balance 84CFM:




And tower is upgraded too

Before



Now




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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 1 March 2019 at 11:37 pm UTC
sr_ls_boy Mar 1, 2019
Quoting: GuestThis is huge. It will make a lot of games go from silver to gold or even to platinum on protondb.
You are correct. The wine bug tracker is about ready to explode! I'm compiling FAudio/Wine 4.3 right now.
KuJo Mar 2, 2019
Fix 41670 BattlEye launcher stuck at 'Starting BattlEye Service...' (PUBG, Planetside2, H1Z1: King of the Kill, Tibia 11)
and
Fix 45841 Battleye's BEDaisy.sys requires that PsThreadType and PsProcessType are defined

Has anyone tried to start PUBG with it yet? That has failed so far because of this bug:
-> https://www.protondb.com/app/578080


Last edited by KuJo on 2 March 2019 at 12:06 am UTC
KuJo Mar 2, 2019
Quoting: GuestThis is huge. It will make a lot of games go from silver to gold or even to platinum on protondb.
As soon as Valve adopted Wine 4.3 into Proton we can see how much it brings.
sr_ls_boy Mar 2, 2019
I tried it out without the staging patches and I don't hear audio for 'Far Cry 4', beyond the videos.
So, nothing has changed for me. I'm thinking that SDL2 might be misconfigured. I'm after debians build
logs for sdl2, namely the configure line. I use pulse when compiling wine but I'll try it without it.
[email protected] Mar 2, 2019
Is this implementation of Faudio in Wine 4.3 compiled with ffmpeg support?
Gazoche Mar 2, 2019
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Quoting: GuestThis is huge. It will make a lot of games go from silver to gold or even to platinum on protondb.
But isn't FAudio included in Proton already ?
mrdeathjr Mar 2, 2019
If you stay using steam on wine maybe can appear odd behaviour: consist steamwebhelper (wine create 2 process of steamwebhelper) up cpu usage and on /bin/cef/cef.win7/ on steam folder

Create debug file and grow very quickly (in my case in 2 min up to 2.2gb and more)

If appear before cited behaviour, kill steamwebhelper process with higher cpu usage (another process dont need kill it) and on /bin/cef/cef.win7/ see if have debug file and follow to delete it and delete chrome_elf and libcef.dll

Before cited steps with steam opened and logged

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 2 March 2019 at 3:51 am UTC
eridanired123 Mar 2, 2019
QuoteImproved handling of kernel objects.

I'm curious guys, what does that means?
jens Mar 2, 2019
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Quoting: GuestThis is huge. It will make a lot of games go from silver to gold or even to platinum on protondb.
Sorry to disappoint you, but FAudio was already bundled with Proton so nothing changes in this regard ;). See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog#316-5
Quoting: Grabby
Quoting: GuestThis is huge. It will make a lot of games go from silver to gold or even to platinum on protondb.
But isn't FAudio included in Proton already ?
Yes.


Last edited by jens on 2 March 2019 at 7:54 am UTC
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