Wine 3.0 Will Be Entering Its Code Freeze Next Week

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 3.0 Will Be Entering Its Code Freeze Next Week

Wine creator Alexandre Julliard has laid out plans for the Wine 3.0 code freeze to begin next week...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-3.0-Freeze-Next-Week

[FishPls]

How's the DX11 support standing? Weren't there plans to get it ready for 3.0?

[Rexerex]

But why they bump version major number? Are they going to drop something?

[Brane215]

And before code freeze they froze their site... Winehq.org is all but inaccessible. Simple post to forum times-out etc...

[Chewi]

How's the DX11 support standing? Weren't there plans to get it ready for 3.0?

The only game I've tried is Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It works but you get annoying glitches during dialogue screens. These only go away by setting StrictDrawOrdering=enabled but then the framerate suffers a lot. I went back to using Gallium Nine. The differences are fairly subtle anyway.

[andrei_me]

But why they bump version major number? Are they going to drop something?

It's a time based version number instead of semantic versioning.

So the use the major number for yearly releases and minor for the bi-weekly releases

[c117152]

Would be nice if they took the time to go through some of the more popular off-tree patches and merge them as run-time flags. Some of those are years old and proved essential in many cases.

[shmerl]

How's the DX11 support standing? Weren't there plans to get it ready for 3.0?

Witcher 3 is in good shape, with a few oustdanding bugs being worked on.

[gukin]

How's the DX11 support standing? Weren't there plans to get it ready for 3.0?

Prey 2017 was in very good shape, Crysis 2 is pretty much flawless but there are still quite a few problems with "Rise of the Tomb Raider". Nevertheless the progress made to gaming, OpenGL (Mesa), and Vulkan have been impressive in 2017.

[boltronics]

Still no luck with Far Cry Primal. All graphics are corrupted such that you can't make anything out. Last tried a few weeks back. Really hoping they can sort it out soon so there's a better chance Far Cry 5 is working when it's out early next year.