Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver

Wine 8.21 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and the final one prior to the feature freeze coming up in two weeks...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.21-Released

[Kjell]

Really excited for the Wayland driver! Also really happy that there's a Vulkan backend for it, can it get any better?

WINE is the only part of my system which holds me to XWayland

[Sethox]

WINE is the only part of my system which holds me to XWayland

For me it's Wine AND Steam.

[RejectModernity]

One more vulkan patch and we're can try to play vulkan(vkd3d and dxvk too) games!

[Weasel]

Cringe. ARM64EC or whatever it is called is even more cringe than Wayland...

[pinguinpc]

This wine version add various commits related wma-wmv but in practice for example dead rising 1 sometimes pass entry videos sometimes dont

In other cases stay in black case darksiders - ultra street fighter and others

Also have more commits related mpeg-1, with wine must be resolve various issues remaining of infamous bug 9127

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9127

At writing time stay using staging 8.21, avalaible on winehq packages (in my case stay using mantic packages)