Wine 8.11 Brings Various Improvements For Windows Apps On Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 8.11 Brings Various Improvements For Windows Apps On Linux

A new bi-weekly release of Wine is now available for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.11-Released

[pinguinpc]

this wine version have various things can affect dxvk for example

winevulkan: Update to VK spec version 1.3.254.

https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.g...93d0db97e12e9c

before enable VK_EXT_depth_bias_control and now with last oibaf mesa drivers anv and radv have support

in my case with anv



this apply to dx9 titles



stay related to this

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/3501

this affect some DX9 titles like: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (shadows) - FarCry 2 (character) - FEAR (some transparency effects) - The Saboteur (texture flickering) maybe others

almost forget wine staging 8.10 in my case dont begin in virtual desktop but wine 8.11 in virtual desktop work ok

[Draget]

I wish there would be again those occasional report which shows the changes across the WineDB. I know this report had some manual labour put into. Maybe this could be automated. I liked those stats.

[timofonic]

this wine version have various things can affect dxvk for example before enable VK_EXT_depth_bias_control and now with last oibaf mesa drivers anv and radv have support in my case with anv this apply to dx9 titles stay related to this https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/3501 this affect some DX9 titles like: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (shadows) - FarCry 2 (character) - FEAR (some transparency effects) - The Saboteur (texture flickering) maybe others almost forget wine staging 8.10 in my case dont begin in virtual desktop but wine 8.11 in virtual desktop work ok

Hello. I love your Wine posta. Michael should make you a Phoronix editor.

I was going to ask about Wine Staging. No Wine Staging 8.11 or what? I miss the typical news about Wine vs Wine Staging patches too!

[poncho524]

But does iTunes work yet?

[oiaohm]

But does iTunes work yet?

https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/set-up-itunes-on-linux

Don't know because no one bothers testing itunes regularly or updating the winedb when it works or not. Could work since you are interested do you mind testing and reporting it.

[pinguinpc]

Update

In my case steam client dont working in this wine version and show this error

[0625/075106.289:ERRORplatform_font_skia.cc(343)] Could not find any font: Tahoma, sans. Falling back to the def
ault