Release of Wine 4.16 and Proton 4.11-4 for running Windows games

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

The most important changes:

• Improved stability of mouse capture functions in games;
• Improved cross-compilation support in WineGCC;
• Improved compatibility with Windows debuggers;
• Moved code related to memory management, debugging, ioctl, console, locks, and file change tracking from kernel32 to kernelbase;
• Closed bug reports related to games and applications 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.

On the same day, Valve опубликовала new project release Proton 4.11-4, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. Project achievements extend under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX 9 (based on D9VK), DirectX 10/11 (based on DXVK extension) and DirectX 12 (based on vkd3d) that work by translating DirectX calls to the Vulkan API provides improved support for game controllers and the ability to use full screen mode regardless of screen resolutions supported in games.

In the new version:

• The DXVK layer (an 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 running games that use Direct2D. Addressed performance issues in Quantum Break when using NVIDIA drivers and legacy AMD drivers. For Control games, the d3d11.allowMapFlagNoWait option is enabled to make better use of GPU resources;
• D9VK layer (Direct3D 9 implementation on top of Vulkan API) updated to experimental version 0.21-rc-p;
• FAudio components with implementation of DirectX sound libraries (API XAudio2, X3DAudio, XAPO and XACT3) updated to release 19.09;
• Improved behavior of PlayStation 4 game controllers and other controllers connected via Bluetooth.
• Improvements have been made to mouse capture and loss of window focus.
• Support for launching the Farming Simulator 19 game has been provided;
• Fixed graphical artifacts in A Hat in Time and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.

Source: opennet.ru