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Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new
21 Aug 2023 at 6:42 am UTC
21 Aug 2023 at 6:42 am UTC
Quoting: GroganFinally... I hate building Wine twice.Oh, so it is easy to build WoW64 Wine now? Before this process was so convoluted that I never bothered doing it when I needed to build it.
OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 released supporting Intel QSV on Linux
18 Aug 2023 at 5:32 pm UTC
18 Aug 2023 at 5:32 pm UTC
Still waiting for AV1 hardware encoding support in OBS.
Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition gets a GOG release and 75% off
18 Aug 2023 at 5:17 pm UTC
18 Aug 2023 at 5:17 pm UTC
Just got it. Never played it before, but I've heard it's good.
AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux
14 Aug 2023 at 4:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
14 Aug 2023 at 4:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
As a recent convert over to team AMD GPU with a Radeon 6800 XTCongrats! You decided not to get the latest RDNA 3 cards?
Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck
11 Aug 2023 at 7:28 pm UTC Likes: 1
11 Aug 2023 at 7:28 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: PlintslîchoIt's already available at GOG.com as well. It's only just called Quake II [External Link] .It's also given for free you already had the game there.
Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck
11 Aug 2023 at 3:05 am UTC Likes: 6
11 Aug 2023 at 3:05 am UTC Likes: 6
Looks like source code for it is out too!
https://github.com/id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll [External Link]
https://github.com/id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll [External Link]
Star Labs announced the compact Byte Mk II PC
14 Jul 2023 at 6:46 pm UTC Likes: 1
14 Jul 2023 at 6:46 pm UTC Likes: 1
Any good mini PCs with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS? All I see are some poorly supported Chinese companies like Beelink and Minisforum.
Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements
12 Jul 2023 at 5:23 pm UTC
12 Jul 2023 at 5:23 pm UTC
Quoting: whizseIt's not hooked up yet.I see, thanks for the pointer. No rush to test it then.
This is the missing bit needed for the waylanddrv driver to be loaded and used instead of winex11:
https://gitlab.collabora.com/alf/wine/-/commit/4db0008a36fd424cac274447d8b4517d8b8055aa [External Link]
It has yet to be merged in upstream Wine.
Applying that works. It's just that other interesting bits, like actually interacting with a Wayland window have yet to be merged!
Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements
12 Jul 2023 at 5:32 am UTC Likes: 1
12 Jul 2023 at 5:32 am UTC Likes: 1
Just tried in the Debian build, no dice either:
00fc:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
00fc:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly."
Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements
12 Jul 2023 at 5:27 am UTC
12 Jul 2023 at 5:27 am UTC
Hmm, seems it's enabled by default?
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/blob/master/configure#L4420 [External Link]
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/blob/master/configure#L4420 [External Link]
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