Wine 1.9.14 Brings Better Shader Model 5 Support in Direct3D, GDI Improvements

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, July 8, 2016, the development team behind the popular Wine open-source software used by many Linux users to run Windows apps and games, have announced a new milestone towards Wine 2.0.

Wine 1.9.14 is now available for download, approximately two weeks after the launch of Wine 1.9.13, bringing better Shader Model 5 support in Direct3D, GDI (Graphics Device Interface) performance improvements, additional work for the upcoming Direct3D command stream, various improvements to the write support in WebServices, as well as the usual bug fixes.

According to the changelog, Wine 1.9.14 fixes a total of 20 issues that have been reported by users since the previous development release, which means that there will be much better support for various applications and games that are designed to run only on Microsoft Windows operating systems. See below for more details about the games and apps that received improvements.
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