Wine 11.0 arrives with a year of development work, more than six thousand changes, and broad improvements across graphics, WoW64 compatibility, gaming, and system performance. From Vulkan and Direct3D tweaks to new Wayland desktop features and better device support, this release marks a confident leap forward for Windows application support on Linux.

Wine fans have a reason to smile today. Wine 11.0 is finally here, and it is a big deal for anyone running Windows software on Linux. After a full year of work, more than six thousand code changes, and hundreds of bug fixes, Wine is moving forward in a way that feels like a turning point. This release tightens up major subsystems, improves performance, expands hardware support, and carries a big win for compatibility. If you have been waiting for Wine to feel smoother and a little less fussy, 11.0 might be the moment you jump back in.

  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
    88·
    9 days ago

    Still one of my favourite WTF moments for Windows.
    Whats in the System32 folder? 64 bit dlls. Whats in SysWOW64? 32 bit dlls.

    Yes I know that WOW64 stands for WindowsOnWindows64 but its still hilariously misleading.

    • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I have had situations where I’ve explained this multiple times to people while helping them manually install the DXVK Async fork into their wine prefix and they still get it backwards.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    681·
    9 days ago

    Stahp, my games already perform better on linux with wine then they did on windows at this rate…

    Actually please keep going !!!

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 days ago

    Wine has saved my classic gaming expeirience. I was about to spend hundreds to get my old windows xp computer new hard drives and adapters for the IDE, etc.

    Then i screwed around with wine and installed my first game and it plays better than windows. Linux for life!

  • bw42@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 days ago

    Already downloaded and built it on Slackware.

    Was able to get Fallout 3 running on it without mods or community patches. Working fairly well, as long as its run windowed fullscreen I can tab out and back without it crashing.

    • Damage@feddit.it
      4·
      9 days ago

      Fallout 3

      I remember playing Fallout 3 through wine on my Macbook Pro ages ago, it worked ok but crashed often. Well, given the circumstances it was more than good enough.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        9 days ago

        It crashed a lot when I played it on windows too. I tried playing it a couple of times, but always gave up partway through because it kept crashing. There are some mods that are supposed to help with stability, I should try it again and see if they fix it.

        • criss_cross@lemmy.world
          4·
          9 days ago

          I remember on launch it was a fucking miracle if the PC version could get past the intro screen. The fact that it’s remotely stable now is a bloody miracle.

  • Freakazoid@lemmy.ml
    71·
    9 days ago

    Anyone knows if vsts work in this version?

    My wine is currently being helt at version 9.21 due to some bugs in newer versions.

    • Malix@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      8 days ago

      While I don’t specifically know about version 11 (EDIT: now I do!), but I’ve been running windows daw + vst’s on wine 9-10.?? for ages. Using Renoise + bunch of different vst’s (mix of vst2 and vst3), all of them seem to work just fine. I did have to install dxvk to the wineprefix to get the ui of some plugins to work, but they do work fine(ish) with it.

      Now, the thing I have NOT tested is ilok drm. So far I’ve managed to do with plugins which don’t use it.

      I see wine 11 is already in my distro’s testing repos. Aggressive waiting starts.

      edit: for clarification, preset dropdown menu’s from one specific plugin vendor (solemntones) vst’s needs to be click/dragged the right way, otherwise they seem to not work. Bit annoying, but otherwise my plugins work.

      edit: seems to work just as well on wine 11. But sample size = me & my vst/vsti’s.

    • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      really? my games just work. 3 years ago i still had to invest time into debugging/tweaking, just last month i installed 3 random games from my steam library and they all just worked out of the box.

        • Grass@sh.itjust.works
          7·
          9 days ago

          I thought at first you were a time traveller from 2009 or something but I totally forgot wine runs on mac

        • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          I admit I bought AMD graphics and use a distribution that is said to be good for gaming (cachyos) to save me some trouble. and I did not test on very recent titles (I dont own/play those)