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Wine 4.0 Released With Vulkan Support, Initial Direct3D 12 and Better HiDPI (phoronix.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the come-and-get-it dept.

Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: Wine 4.0 is now officially available as the new annual stable release to Wine for running Windows programs and games on Linux and other operating systems. Following seven weekly release candidates, Wine 4.0 was ready to ship today as judged by Wine founder Alexandre Julliard. Wine 4.0 is a big release bringing initial Vulkan graphics API support, Direct3D CSMT is enabled by default, early Direct3D 12 support via VKD3D, continued HiDPI work, various OpenGL improvements, multi-sample D3D texture support, 64-bit improvements, continued Android support, and much more. The release announcement and notes can be read via WineHQ.org. The source can be downloaded here.

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  1. Re:The real question by Kjella · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use VirtualBox to run Win7 under Linux Mint, and while some stuff works great, a lot of stuff doesn't. For example, I can use MS Word under VirtualBox and most things work fine, but do something like update the Table of Contents and *boom* Word crashes.

    Well, first off does it crash on a native Win7 box? If it doesn't I'd try doing a fresh install, in this scenario VirtualBox is running genuine Windows on virtualized hardware. If that didn't work properly it'd be front page news. Quite frankly that setup is almost always less hassle than WINE, the obvious downside is that you need a license for the Win7 box while WINE is a re-implementation so it's just your code running on top of WINE.

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  2. This is awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm really excited to see all the work in the Linux world generally on Wayland and GPU and related APIs. The latest versions of wine are actually amazing. One of the issues I've often had was that wine included with most distros is an ancient version many many years old. This gives an impression of the state of the project that is not in line with current reality.

    Current version of wine will actually run almost all of my non-game windows software including office which is awesome. I fully plan on ditching Windows for good once W7 is abandoned. Microsoft's behavior is simply unacceptable.