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Wine not! The Wine 4.0 RC4 release bottle has been opened and is ready to serve
28 Dec 2018 at 7:51 pm UTC Likes: 8

In this wine version....only fix bugs, no any new features

And no videos this time.....seriously

Configure file size must be strange 666.9kb ^_^

Happy new year 2019

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Valve have one more Steam Play update out before the end of 2018 with 3.16-6
23 Dec 2018 at 2:12 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: mrdeathjrIn this proton version

.........

Lego Harry Potter 1-4....

...has been working since WINE 1.4, and probably still suffers from the random crash-to-desktop at the end of story 1.
Also, some of you may need to put "unset LC_ALL && %command%" in the launch options or it will fail to save.

:S:
Curiously in my case save without issues and pass 1st stage without issues too

Proton have various improvements compared regular wine, various titles stay more stable than vanilla wine

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Valve have one more Steam Play update out before the end of 2018 with 3.16-6
21 Dec 2018 at 10:31 pm UTC Likes: 10

In this proton version

Lego Marvel Super Heroes



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RskQw8MpTrk [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFHFeEqh_vM [External Link]

Lego StarWars Complete Saga



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctOLTyXQbR4 [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJnY9HWQlr4 [External Link]

Lego The Movie



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=029cQpMg2ts [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMhI5eTO4g [External Link]

Lego Pirates of Caribbean



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXeo_9wyCRs [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u4v4S9I4bw [External Link]

Lego Batman



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdgT9ogMINs [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlOhlL88Q5E [External Link]

Lego Harry Potter 1-4



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5wJcWX6SsU [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GclVbvppIFk [External Link]

Sonic Generations



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hj_RjVWt8k [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkrIzEHceLA [External Link]

Disney Universe



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbe56iC5Mw [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU8_zLoj_yQ [External Link]

Finn and Jake Epic Quest



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8RnHTNzrvk [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Y9pPEzOEI [External Link]

Tangled



Last test with Pentium G3220 @ 3.0ghz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAqBFLqH7KM [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frMwtEWBpXk [External Link]

On Native Side

Neverwinter Nights



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5sid2FCeR4 [External Link]

And in others

MelonDS 0.71



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LevfEQpaM [External Link]

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Whine no more, the bottle for Wine 4.0 RC3 has been popped open
21 Dec 2018 at 8:34 pm UTC Likes: 2

In this wine version only fix bugs as usual in release candidate phase



However can try dgvoodoo with nolf 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Mg6u289sQ [External Link]

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Some thoughts on Linux gaming in 2018, an end of year review
19 Dec 2018 at 6:45 pm UTC

Thanks to ethan lee for FAudio

With lastest wine staging is interesting try FAudio for courtesy of Kron4ek reddit user



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaguTYa0S9E [External Link]

Respect video have tested some titles using wine64 case:

Begins with tales of berseria this game dont sound correctly if use default wine pulse but with faudio pulse dont give troubles in tests

Followed by darksiders 3, show bad sound with default xaudio wine implementation (darksiders warmaster also affected) and dont possible recording with correct audio by this

And finish with ultimate marvel vs capcom 3, another title with missed sounds with default xaudio wine implementation

Him put avalaible Faudio build and seems him compiled with ffmpeg support, more about in this topic

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gamin...ilds_for_wine/
This is some fragments cited by this user:

The easiest way is to use "wine_setup_native" script from the archive. Just set WINEPREFIX variable to your Wine prefix path and then execute that script, like this:

export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" ./wine_setup_native
And if it's already usable, why didn't Wine upstream it yet?

It's quite usable, but there are some unimplemeted features. I suppose, that's why it's not in upstream yet.
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VK9, the project that aims to support Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit another milestone
17 Dec 2018 at 8:39 pm UTC

Quoting: johndoe86x
Quoting: jens
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI wish Valve support this...

This project can give Proton the proper retro compatibility/performance for heavy weight DX9 games.
Are there any heavy weight DX9 games?
There are a ton of them.

It was the de facto API before DX11, but the biggest one that comes to mind is the original Skyrim.
Quoting: wvstolzingAs already mentioned, loads of Triple AiAiAi (hat tip to Jim Sterling) games run on dx9, even those that came out after dx10 became available.

Assassin's Creed 1 has a dx10 mode and a dx9 fallback; but the next 3 games in the series are all dx9. GTA IV + its expansion packs are also dx9.
Yeah wine / proton actual dx9 implementation is very heavy specially with various unreal engine 3 games, need for speed hot pursuit 2010, skyrim vanilla and many others

















































































































Normally this games dont use more than 2 cores at max (in some rare cases use more cores but are few compared with regular dx9 titles)

For before reason ryzen dont work good with this type of games, for this reason have core i3 8350K 5.0ghz / 215 single thread cinebench r15

Without forget i put more attention on older titles than newer because older titles lack of tests compared newer games

Another thing high single thread cpu in this games give better fps min

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NVIDIA released the 415.22.01 Vulkan driver
15 Dec 2018 at 6:04 pm UTC Likes: 2



According nvidia json file show this:

{ "fileformat_version" : "1.0.0", "ICD": { "library_path": "NV_VK_ICD_", "api_version" : "1.1.95" } }

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Just when you think you can stop drinking, Wine 4.0 has another release candidate available
15 Dec 2018 at 5:10 pm UTC

Quoting: torbidoThere is a new option in staging tab called "Use ARB Shaders". What is that for?
Interesting sometime ago devs talks about that setting could be show improvements on nvidia cards

However seems more interesting if them add faudio to staging

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DXVK 0.94 is out with fixes and performance tweaks
15 Dec 2018 at 4:25 pm UTC Likes: 3

Works ok with lastest nvidia vulkan driver 415.22.01 in tests



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Just when you think you can stop drinking, Wine 4.0 has another release candidate available
14 Dec 2018 at 6:40 pm UTC Likes: 2

In this wine version only fix bugs, dont any new feature here

Dynasty Warriors 7 Xtreme Legends



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wchLuLJQIdI [External Link]

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