You Can Play DOOM (2016) and Hitman: Absolution on Linux with Wine Staging 2.0

Coming hot on the heels of the major Wine 2.0 release, Wine Staging 2.0 is now available for download with a bunch of improvements on its own end, allowing you to run some of the latest Windows games and applications.

Apart from all the new features and enhancements implemented in Wine 2.0, Wine Staging 2.0 adds support for several new windowscodecs image formats, better support for semi-transparent layered windows, improved emulation of deferred rendering contexts, and some other, smaller bug fixes and under-the-hood changes.

"The Wine Staging 2.0 release doesn't have any special meaning as we don't have a code freeze or a stable version, but we still spent some time to test various games/applications. We have summarized some of the more interesting test results related to Vulkan and DirectX 11 in a separate blog... (read more)

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