Wine-Staging 8.10 Adds D3D9 Improvement, Fix For A Bug Open Since 2009

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine-Staging 8.10 Adds D3D9 Improvement, Fix For A Bug Open Since 2009

Friday marked the release of Wine 8.10 as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot for this software allowing Windows games and apps to run on Linux and elsewhere. Out now is Wine-Staging 8.10 as the more experimental/testing form with an extra 500 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-8.10

[shmerl]

What's the current status of winesync (aka fast sync)? Will it be upstreamed this year?

[Melcar]

Wine Staging 8.10. Update just hit for Kubuntu. Can't seem to launch anything now. No errors in terminal or anything. Funny thing is that I can run applications if I launch them through the q4wine interface.

[pinguinpc]

Wine Staging 8.10. Update just hit for Kubuntu. Can't seem to launch anything now. No errors in terminal or anything. Funny thing is that I can run applications if I launch them through the q4wine interface.

In my case stay testing too and dont launch anything too, however in console show this:

00fc:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.

00fc:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"The explorer process failed to start."

12:03:41: Error: Can't create window of class wxWindowClassN

[timofonic]

What's the current status of winesync (aka fast sync)? Will it be upstreamed this year?

I would like to know what happened to that, there was lots of hype about it.

[shmerl]

I would like to know what happened to that, there was lots of hype about it.

Supposedly there was some need for more feedback before upstreaming it, but I don't know how far things progressed.

[timofonic]

Supposedly there was some need for more feedback before upstreaming it, but I don't know how far things progressed.

And we'll never know it, it seems...