Wine 4.17 Adds DXTn Compressed Textures, Windows Script Runtime Library

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 4.17 Adds DXTn Compressed Textures, Windows Script Runtime Library

Wine 4.17 has been uncorked for weekend testing as the newest bi-weekly feature development release of this open-source project for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-4.17-Released

[treba]

Erm, what does the support for DXTn compressed textures mean? I'd assume games using them already work as long as the drivers do? Is this about compression support (not using already compressed ones)?

[Michael]

Erm, what does the support for DXTn compressed textures mean? I'd assume games using them already work as long as the drivers do? Is this about compression support (not using already compressed ones)?

The D3D9 to OpenGL code for using S3TC texture compression looks to have been missing some bits around handling offset destination rects.

[pinguinpc]

This wine version reimplement mpeg and avi splitter

And d9vk still works

[ssokolow]

Erm, what does the support for DXTn compressed textures mean? I'd assume games using them already work as long as the drivers do? Is this about compression support (not using already compressed ones)?

Probably that you can install the optional high-res S3TC-compressed textures from Unreal Tournament (1999) CD 2 and have them work.

See http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/.../870-s3tc-dxtc for explanation and side-by-side comparison images.

[deant]

was about time