Wine-Staging 1.7.45 Gets Better vRAM Detection, Makes Use Of Ping

Building on last Friday's release of Wine 1.7.45, the newest Wine-Staging release is now available that tacks in extra, experimental functionality.

Prominent additions to Wine 1.7.45 is support for using the ping command-line utility as a fallback for handling ICMP pings from Windows apps and better GPU memory capacity reporting.

Wine can already use raw sockets to implement Windows' special API for sending/receiving ping requests, but that requires the processes/users to have CAP_NET_RAW support. As a fallback, Wine-Staging added support for making use of the ping tool should no other option be available.

The improved video RAM Detection is in now supporting NVIDIA's NVX_GPU_MEMORY_INFO for querying the total amount of available GPU memory and memory usage for handling by WineD3D.

Besides these two prominent changes for this latest Wine-Staging update built atop upstream Wine, there's also many other smaller patches that are currently being vetted within this staging area. More details via the announcement at Wine-Staging.com.