📰 Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark

Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.10-Released

#wine

📰 DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default

Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-3.0-Release

#proton #steam #wine

📰 Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements

Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine 11.12 brings fractional scaling support to its Wayland driver and various other enhancements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.12-Released

#wayland #wine

📰 Bottles is how you should actually run Windows apps on Linux

Running Windows programs on Linux can be complicated, but pairing Bottles with Wine makes things much easier and more reliable.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/bottles-how-should-run-windows-apps-linux/

#linux #wine

📰 FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware

The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more optimizations and improvements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2607-Emulator

#arm #linux #proton #steam #wine

📰 DXVK 3.0.1 Brings Improvements for Fallout 3, Black Mesa, and Empire Earth 2

DXVK 3.0.1 open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D8, D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for various games and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-3-0-1-brings-improvements-for-fallout-3-black-mesa-and-empire-earth-2

#linux #opensource #wine

📰 RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 engine 'OpenRCT2' adds auto detection of RCT2 and RCT1 Wine installs on Linux

OpenRCT is an incredible open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, and now it's even easier to get it running on Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/rollercoaster-tycoon-2-engine-openrct2-adds-auto-detection-of-rct2-and-rct1-wine-installs-on-linux/

#linux #opensource #wine

📰 Proton 11.0-1 Released To Advance Valve's Steam Play For The Best Linux Experience Yet

Proton 11.0-1 was just released as stable as the newest major version of this downstream of Wine that powers Valve's Steam Play to provide for a great Windows gaming experience across conventional Linux systems plus the popular Steam Deck and brand new Steam Machine...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-1

#linux #proton #steam #wine

📰 Wine 11.15 Released With Wayland Fixes, Fix For A 20 Year Old MSXML3 Bug

Making its debut this Saturday rather than the usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment, Wine 11.15 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.15-Released

#linux #opensource #wayland #wine

📰 Bottles game manager v66 brings UMU from Open Wine Components to help run games

Bottles v66 has some major changes for this game manager to make the experience a lot nicer, with UMU from Open Wine Components to help run games.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bottles-game-manager-v66-brings-umu-from-open-wine-components-to-help-run-games/

#wine

📰 VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine

VKD3D 2.1 was released today by CodeWeavers' Henri Verbeet as the upstream Wine project for getting Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-2.1-Released

#wine

📰 DXVK 3.1.1 Improves Support for Call of Duty: Ghosts, Rayman 3, and Skyrim SE

DXVK 3.1.1 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with new features and various improvements for several games.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-3-1-1-improves-support-for-call-of-duty-ghosts-rayman-3-and-skyrim-se

#linux #wine

📰 GE-Proton 11-7 brings more Wine Wayland upgrades, launcher fixes, game fixes and more

GE-Proton 11-7 has arrived and there's quite a lot of gaming improvements here for SteamOS / Linux fans.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ge-proton-11-7-brings-more-wine-wayland-upgrades-launcher-fixes-game-fixes-and-more/

#linux #proton #wayland #wine

📰 Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play

Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultra Series 3 processors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-FRED-Fix-For-Wine-Games

#intel #kernel #linux #steam #wine

📰 Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation

Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.18-Released

#linux #opensource #wine

📰 Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64

Building off yesterday's Wine 11.18 bi-weekly development release is now Wine-Staging 11.18. This experimental flavor of Wine is presently carrying 273 extra patches over that upstream Git state, including some new patches for helping enhance the WoW64 support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.18

#git #wine

📰 Intel GPU support with Proton should get better with DXVK-IGDEXT

Intel have an interesting new project with DXVK-IGDEXT, allowing Proton / Wine to make better use of Intel GPU features.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/intel-gpu-support-with-proton-should-get-better-with-dxvk-igdext/

#intel #proton #wine

📰 ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games

The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Updated-Wine-DirectX

#opensource #wine

📰 D7VK Reaches Maturity For Older Direct3D APIs Atop Vulkan

D7VK as a Vulkan-based implementation of the Microsoft Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs for Linux/Wine (Steam Play) usage is out with version 2.3 and the developer now believing its marking the point that the project is rather mature...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-2.3-Released

#linux #steam #wine

📰 DXVK-Sarek 1.14.0 released for gaming on older GPUs

DXVK-Sarek version 1.14.0 has arrived, keeping Wine / Proton gaming alive for those of you with older GPUs that don't have modern Vulkan support.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/dxvk-sarek-1-14-0-released-for-gaming-on-older-gpus/

#proton #wine