It never worked for me properly (doesn't save anything), which I suspect is an infamous lack of LFS bug that hits XFS filesystems because the game is 32-bit. I was a bit lazy reporting it to developers, though I should do it really.

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Quoting: strycoreI've noticed some improvements in The Witcher 3, specifically the part where the Botchling appears. It was previously invisible but is now rendered.

That's the case with upstream Wine master already.

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Most of them never come out DRM-free though, so yeah there seem to be many, but far from enough to actually play them :)

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Quoting: TraversyWait, isn't CSMT still exclusive to Wine staging?

Certain hackish implementation of CSMT is. Wine master contains CSMT that's upstreamed, but it has less features so far.

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Quoting: tpauWe need more than simply rebasing the existing patches though. Lots of fixmes need fresh patches too ;)

That's the point. We don't know how the fork will be handled. I'd prefer actual Wine developers to rework and upstream the patches when possible.

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Quoting: AsuI so want the wine project dead.

So you are against Feral games too I suppose?

Chances of native games increase with wider adoption of cross platform engines.

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So far this year 4.9% percent of people buying @maia have been Linux users

Not bad, and the game looks interesting. I'll probably buy itch.io version.

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Quoting: GuestYou are writing about vanilla wine.

Yes. Since now there are no active maintainers for Wine staging, vanilla Wine is the only viable option. That will possibly encourage developers to rework staging patches and upstream them.

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Quoting: KimyrielleSooo...what keeps them from merging the Staging patches into the main branch anyway? If they have been used for that long, should think they are proven to work, no?

Code quality. Many Wine staging patches are hacks that work for some titles and make things worse for others. I.e. there is a benefit of using them selectively when you need a narrow tailored Wine version, but as a whole they can't be accepted upstream.

I suppose Wine developers can work on the most important ones and bring them in shape for the Wine mainline.

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Quoting: GuestFor Debian and other distributions use wine-staging. It does support Origin and Uplay when vanilla wine does not. winecfg does have a Staging tab with the csmt option.

Wine staging is gone, so better get used to regular Wine now if you want up to date features.

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