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Wine 9.0 is now available (gitlab.winehq.org)

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[–] [email protected] 225 points 10 months ago (13 children)

All modules that call a Unix library contain WoW64 thunks to enable calling the 64-bit Unix library from 32-bit PE code. This means that it is possible to run 32-bit Windows applications on a purely 64-bit Unix installation. This is called the new WoW64 mode, as opposed to the old WoW64 mode where 32-bit applications run inside a 32-bit Unix process.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So in the future no need to install 32 bit packages of wine in a 64 system??? 👀

[–] [email protected] 103 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Correcto. Which means Steam will probably drop 32 bit libs soon. Which means Ubuntu will stop shipping 32 libs. The era is truly coming to an end

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's call it "soonish". The old proton versions still need 32 bit libs if they do not backport the feature.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Old Proton builds probably won't backport this (unless it's completely isolated, idk the code layout of Wine). But are old Proton builds still necessary? Occasionally there's regressions, but are there really any games that require like a 2 year old Proton build?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

There are, but it's complicated. Doom (2016) for instance - it doesn't handle the very large Vulkan swap chain that's possible on some modern graphics cards, crashes on start-up. Someone patched Proton around that time so that Doom would start; the patch was later reverted since it broke other games. Other games based off of that engine - couple of Wolfensteins, Doom Eternal - have the problem fixed in the binaries, and so run on up-to-date Proton, but depending on your hardware, only a few specific, old, versions of Proton, will do for Doom.

Regressions get fixed - that's okay. Buggy behaviour which depended on regressions that got fixed - that's a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

quite a few games need old proton IME

not many, but enough to make a difference.

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