Wine 2.0 Released
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http://www.webupd8.org/2017/01/wine-20-stable-released-install-it-in.html
After more than a year of development, Wine 2.0 has been released with over 6600 changes, which include support for Microsoft Office 2013, GStreamer 1.0 support, various Direct3D 10 and 11 improvements and more.
Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) allows running Microsoft Windows application on Unix-like operating systems. It is written primarily using reverse engineering, to avoid copyright issues.
Wine 2.0 release highlights:
- support for Microsoft Office 2013;
- more Direct3D 10 and 11 were implemented, including several shader model 4 and 5 shader instructions, sRGB read/write support and more (but Direct 3D 11 is still not fully supported);
- GStreamer version 1.0 is supported for audio and video streams;
- 64-bit support on macOS;
- the macOS graphics driver supports a high-resolution ("Retina") rendering mode;
- window, bitmap and GDI DC render targets are implemented in Direct2D;
- in desktop mode, the taskbar displays running applications and allows switching between them;
- the clipboard support is reimplemented for better compatibility; copy & paste of HTML text is also improved. Drag & drop works more smoothly;
- font embedding in PDF files is supported;
- much more.
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@mlnews said in Wine 2.0 Released:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-on-linux-moves-forward-with-new-wine-2-0-release/
Time to see if any new games work or not!
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They need to mention video game performance in these lists.
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@StrongBad said in Wine 2.0 Released:
They need to mention video game performance in these lists.
I've been contemplating switching my laptop back to Linux again. Looks like I now have a reason to do so!
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I use it on my Mac. I have issues with installations, but I have a workaround that isn't all that great, but it gets the job done.
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Laptop is back on Linux, and all the games that I am playing right now work at least respectably well and without any major bugs so far.
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@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
Laptop is back on Linux, and all the games that I am playing right now work at least respectably well and without any major bugs so far.
Do you have AOE2?
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@scottalanmiller said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
Laptop is back on Linux, and all the games that I am playing right now work at least respectably well and without any major bugs so far.
Do you have AOE2?
It's in my Steam Library, haven't reinstalled it yet. Do I need to try?
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@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@scottalanmiller said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
Laptop is back on Linux, and all the games that I am playing right now work at least respectably well and without any major bugs so far.
Do you have AOE2?
It's in my Steam Library, haven't reinstalled it yet. Do I need to try?
Yes
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@scottalanmiller said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@scottalanmiller said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
Laptop is back on Linux, and all the games that I am playing right now work at least respectably well and without any major bugs so far.
Do you have AOE2?
It's in my Steam Library, haven't reinstalled it yet. Do I need to try?
Yes
It's amazing how much faster Steam for Windows runs on Linux, ha ha. It's installed. I'll hit the play button at home later. XRDP and X2Go don't particularly care for running graphically demanding apps remotely.
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AOE 2 Will actually launch (I broke down and tested it, lol).
Wine configuration guide here seems to be nice at getting it going.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/221380/discussions/2/828935361270250345
I'm using PlayOnLinux with Wine 2.0 installed for the Steam install. Will play around with it tonight to see if it works.
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@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
AOE 2 Will actually launch (I broke down and tested it, lol).
Does it play well?
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@StrongBad said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
AOE 2 Will actually launch (I broke down and tested it, lol).
Does it play well?
It plays respectably well over Remote Desktop at least for the Tutorial stuff.
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@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@StrongBad said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
AOE 2 Will actually launch (I broke down and tested it, lol).
Does it play well?
It plays respectably well over Remote Desktop at least for the Tutorial stuff. I assume it'd be playing right if I were sitting in front of it.
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Since @Dashrender privately chastised me for trying to
test somethinga game over RDP, I figured I'd publicly announce that it plays fine when sitting in front of the machine, lol. -
@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
Since @Dashrender privately chastised me for trying to test something over RDP, I figured I'd publicly announce that it plays fine when sitting in front of the machine, lol.
hehe
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@Dashrender said in Wine 2.0 Released:
@dafyre said in Wine 2.0 Released:
Since @Dashrender privately chastised me for trying to test something over RDP, I figured I'd publicly announce that it plays fine when sitting in front of the machine, lol.
hehe
A minor issue that I'm starting to notice in Windowed mode is that when you move the mouse to the bottom edge of the screen, it doesn't scroll down. Left, right, and top seem to work.
There's also no easy way to ALT+TAB out of it -- even in windowed mode.
