Tried to build wine + ntsync, but those patches can't be applied on top of wine 10.4. I guess we'll have to wait until it's rebased.

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I remember that for a long time on arch you needed the zen kernel for fsync? Is that not the case anymore?

I think that should be in upstream, but named as futex2.

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fsync was never upstreamed, and applying fsync patches over Wine was a mess. I used esync from staging instead. So it would be nice to finally replace it with upstream ntsync.

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Nice to see Valve sponsoring KDE development. Hopefully they plan it long term.

I would like to see KDE 6 on the Steam Deck.

What version does it use now? Plasma 5 is EOL for a while already.

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struct native_req_assets *native_req_assets_get(struct native_info *native_info);

Since DLSS is some proprietary Nvidia blob, the question goes other way around. Is there a possibility for DLSS to support nova+nvk? I wouldn't count on it.

Not familiar with how DLSS accesses the GPU though. If it's using some standard Vulkan path - it might work. If it's not, Nvidia will have to contribute whatever is missing. Or someone else who cares to reverse engineer it.

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Zink still lack va-api support

I think someone should create VA-API over Vulkan video for that.

Looks like there is some work on it:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/31517 [External Link]

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How do you guys feel about buying on GoG instead of Steam?

I always buy on GOG to encourage DRM-free gaming.

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If anyone want to know about opengl situation, gl proposed extension is this:

GL_MESA_placed_allocation

Interesting. I can't find any actual Mesa work for that though. Was it submitted to Khronos?

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Can someone update me on the status of the WineWoW64? Haven't heard about that in a while now...

Recent builds of Wine ship this feature together with old Wow64. You can force the new mode at runtime with

WINEARCH=wow64

But it's not the default yet.

Features wise, the only major issue are 32-bit OpenGL scenarios. OpenGL is still missing some extensions that are required to allow decent performance.

That affects for example old DX7 games which have to go through wined3d and therefore through OpenGL. So for those games, 32-bit proper is still needed.

I asked Wine developers if anyone is working on such OpenGL extension, but no one responded. I assume not many really care about those games to prioritize that.

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Nice, congrats on clipboard support especially! I was waiting for that one for a long time.

However 32bit dependencies hell are gone with new wow64, only need 64bit development dependencies for build biarch wine:

./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64

I've been building it without 32-bit deps like that for a while already, so it doesn't look like this changed recently?

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