Release of Wine 4.16 and the Windows gaming launcher package Proton 4.11-4

Available experimental release of the open implementation of Win32 API — Wine 4.16. Since the release of version 4.15 16 bug reports were closed and 203 changes were made.

The most significant changes:

• Improved stability of mouse capture functions in games;
• Enhanced cross-compilation support in WineGCC;
• Improved compatibility with Windows debuggers;
• Code related to memory management, debugging, ioctl, console, locks, and file change tracking has been moved from kernel32 to kernelbase;
• Bug reports related to the performance of games and applications such as Dragon Age: Art of Murder Cards of Destiny, Super Meat Boy, UE4, Processhacker 2.x, μTorrent, PUBG Lite Launcher, SeeSnake HQ, Rhinoceros 6, Hearthstone, PotPlayer 1.7, ExHIBIT, Zoom Edit&Share 5.0.0.0 have been closed.

On the same day, Valve released new release of the project Proton 4.11-4, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments is distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to run Windows-only game applications directly in the Linux Steam client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX 9 (based on D9VK), DirectX 10/11 (based on DXVK) and DirectX 12 (based on vkd3d), which operates through translating DirectX calls into the Vulkan API, provides enhanced support for game controllers, and allows full-screen mode usage regardless of supported screen resolutions in games.

In the new version:

• The DXVK layer (implementation of DXGI, Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11 on top of the Vulkan API) has been updated to version 1.3.4, which fixes a memory leak that occurs when launching games using Direct2D. Performance issues in the game Quantum Break, which appear when using NVIDIA drivers and older AMD drivers, have been addressed. For the Control game, the d3d11.allowMapFlagNoWait option has been enabled for better GPU resource utilization;
• The D9VK layer (implementation of Direct3D 9 on top of the Vulkan API) has been updated to an experimental version 0.21-rc-p;
• FAudio components with implementations of DirectX sound libraries (API XAudio2, X3DAudio, XAPO, and XACT3) have been updated to the release 19.09;
• Improved behavior of PlayStation 4 game controllers and other controllers connected via Bluetooth;
• Improvements have been made regarding mouse capture and window focus loss;
• Support for launching the game Farming Simulator 19 has been provided;
• Graphical artifacts in the games A Hat in Time and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 have been eliminated.

Source: opennet.ru