Wine 4.9 Released With Ability To Install Plug & Play Drivers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 4.9 Released With Ability To Install Plug & Play Drivers

Wine 4.9 is available for testing as the newest bi-weekly development release marching towards Wine 5.0...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-4.9-Released

[tildearrow]

The previous Wine version fixes OpenMPT on HiDPI

Wait, wait, wait. Installing drivers on Wine? I never thought this was possible...

[torbido]

Installing plug and play drivers on Wine! What is that supposes to mean exactly?!

[pinguinpc]

This wine version have some work related .net and some input regressions

With d9vk still working

Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD

However works correctly until pass door in chapter 1-2 when need emblem key, after this fps fall to 10fps

Last test with Pentium G3220 @ 3.0ghz

D9VK with Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

System Specs Used in Test

Nvidia Drivers 418.52.07 (run package from nvidia drivers homepage)

Xubuntu 18.04 x64 - Kernel 4.17.12 generic (ubuntu mainline) -

CPUFreq: Performance

CPU: Core i3 8350K Tri-Core (Coffelake 14nm) 5.0Ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

MEMORY: 8GB DDR4 2400mhz (4x2) Mushkin (dual channel: 37.5 gb/s)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640 Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz 128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: ASUS Z370-P

[Guest]

Installing plug and play drivers on Wine! What is that supposes to mean exactly?!

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[oiaohm]

Installing plug and play drivers on Wine! What is that supposes to mean exactly?!

https://wiki.winehq.org/List_of_Commands

winedevice - (internal) manages devices

Yes wine has to run windows drivers with different games for anti-cheat/copy protection bits to work... The ones that were failing due to the driver being plug and play might now work. This is not hardware access.

[eydee]

Installing plug and play drivers on Wine! What is that supposes to mean exactly?!

Marketing talk. Plug and play means the OS is shipping with drivers or can acquire them through updates. In windows context it means drivers are on the windows disc or can be downloaded from windows update. It also means that handling of device resources is automatic.

Plug and play drivers don't exist, only plug and play devices. The term refers to user experience, plug your device in and "play", In which case "play" means that no additional tasks are required by the user, in contrast to the pre-PnP era, when plugging in a device was followed by setting IRQs and DMA and of course manually installing and configuring drivers.

[mifritscher]

@eydee: Nope. MS introduced the PNP stack in Windows 2000 with a new driver model. For this, the drivers need to be adapted. PNP in this sense means not only resource management, but also hot-pluging etc. Wine brings in infrastructure to support these kind of drivers now.