Wine Staging – Special wine version with bug fixes and more features

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Wine Staging (formerly wine-compholio) is a special wine version containing bug fixes and features, which are not yet available in regular wine versions. The idea of Wine Staging is to provide new features faster to end users and to give developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before they are sent upstream. We also intend to create a community of wine developers to share experience and to make it easier for beginners to start hacking on wine.

Wine Staging Features

CSMT (Commandstream multithreading) for better graphic performance
CUDA / PhysX / NVENC Support for NVIDIA graphic cards
DXVA2 GPU video decoding (experimental)
EAX 1 support
Fixes for various upstream regressions
Job Object support
Loading of .NET CLI images without entry point
Named Pipe message mode support (Linux kernel >= 3.4 only)
Performance improvements for IO-heavy programs and memory allocation functions
S3 texture compression (DXTn) support
Threadpool API support
Various improvements to d3dx9
Various speed improvements (shared memory, RT priority)
Windows ACL support
Wine PulseAudio driver

Install Wine Staging On ubuntu

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging

If you want to avoid typing the full path each time you can additionally install the wine-staging-compat package which provides compatibility symlinks:

sudo apt-get install wine-staging-compat

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