Wine 7.0 adds support for the best GPUs from AMD and includes over 9,100 changes
With over 9,100 changes and improvements, Wine 7.0 should deliver its best experience yet when running Windows apps and games on Linux.
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What you need to know
Wine 7.0 recently rolled out, and the update includes over 9,100 changes. Wine is a compatibility layer that allows people to run a large library of Windows apps and games onLinux. It’s a popular way for gamers to enjoy thebest PC gameson non-Windows systems.
Wine 7.0 includes over 9,100 changes and improvements. Here are the highlights of what’s new:
You can read the complete changelog on theWineHQ website.
The update to Wine 7.0 adds support for some of the best GPUs to the Direct3D graphics card database. Among the newly supported graphics cards is theAMD Radeon RX 6800. Here’s the complete list of the GPUs that were recently added to the Direct3D graphics card database:
By implementing 64-bit Windows-on-Windows architecture, Wine 7.0 supports running 32-bit Windows applications inside a 64-bit Unix host process.
In addition to the improvements that will benefit Linux users, Wine 7.0 adds support for Apple Silicon, including running x86-64 binaries through Rosetta 2.
Wine
Wine is a compatability layer that allows you to run many Windows applications and games on Linux systems.
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