Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support

[skeevy420]

Last time I checked Half-Life was available on Steam Play/Linux (1, 2 and Black Mesa). Why would you try to play the Windows version on Wine?

Comparisons, like visual and performance, between Native and Wine would be my first guess.

[klapaucius]

Bugs fixed in 6.6 (total 56):
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19626 Half-life engine's software rendering is ridiculously slow
27528 Half Life Software Rendering completely wrong
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Last time I checked Half-Life was available on Steam Play/Linux (1, 2 and Black Mesa). Why would you try to play the Windows version on Wine?

[Redfoxmoon]

Denuvo anti-cheat

correction, Denuvo malware :^)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support

Wine 6.6 is out as the open-source project's first release of April for running Windows games and applications primarily on Linux and macOS platforms. With Wine 6.6 comes more feature work that will ultimately be incorporated into the Wine 7.0 release due out in early 2022...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-6.6-Released