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News: Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging (archlinux.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tomatoely@sh.itjust.works to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40293009

2025-06-16 - Peter Jung

We are transitioning the wine and wine-staging package to a pure wow64 build. This change removes the dependency on the multilib repository for wine and wine-staging.

The main reason for this is to align with upstream Wine development, which simplifies packaging and the dependency chain.

Potential Issues:

OpenGL Performance: A known limitation of the new WoW64 mode is reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly

Breaking Changes: Existing 32-bit prefixes needs to be recreated

If you are facing issues with 32 bit prefixes, please recreate these and reinstall the application.

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[–] tomatoely@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

AFAIK Proton uses its own wine build, so by the time they go WoW64 only, it should comply with anticheats (or atleast I hope valve takes that into consideration)

[–] mactan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

indeed, however , shockingly, not all games are in steam. and not everybody wants to use proton