IT House News on August 29, Wine is a compatibility layer that allows you to run thousands of Windows applications and games on Linux systems. Wine 7.16 is now officially available, bringing a number of new features, fixes, and more that will impact Steam Deck, HoloISO, and Chimera OS gamers. There is also progress being made towards Wine 8.0, which is expected to be released later this year.
Here are the major updates for Wine 7.16:
support in X11 driver Wow64
Session storage in MSHTML Unicode in
MSXML Regular expression fixes IME in edit control
Improve various bugs in
Bug fixes in
Wine Introduced support for WoW64 in the X11 driver. WoW64 is the 64-bit compatibility layer of Microsoft for 32-bit applications. IT House has learned that if you are a Steam Deck game mode user, this change will not have an impact when these changes are merged upstream into Proton.
In terms of gaming, the new version of Wine has fixed the bug that caused the game "Saint'sRow" to crash due to the error "unimplemented function kernel32.dll.SetProcessDefaultCpuSets", but the community has found a solution. Fixed false positives related to anti-cheat detection in Ragnarok Online. A Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain bugs have been fixed and it is now possible to move beyond the first chapter intro. Finally, a fix for Star Citizen prevents the launcher from freezing due to heap space issues. Numerous fixes have also been received for other non-gaming Windows-y related content.
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