14 DAY TRIAL // A new Wine development release arrived, versioned 1.9.24, two weeks after the Wine 1.9.23 snapshot, to improve support for several Windows games, as well as add various improvements and bug fixes.
The biggest improvements implemented in the Wine 1.9.24 development release are support for unordered access views in Direct3D, a bunch of new enhancements to HID support, as well as lots of fixes in the regression tests. So, as you can see, it's a very light and quite insignificant update, but then there are the bug fixes.
A total of 28 issues reported by users since Wine 1.9.23 or a previous point release in the unstable 1.9 series of the open-source software project, which lets Linux and Mac users install and use applications and games designed only for Microsoft Windows operating systems, have been addressed in Wine 1.9.24.
Here are the Windows games and apps that received improvements
Among the Windows games that received improvements in Wine 1.9.24 and should perform a lot better now, we can mention Stronghold 2, Need for Speed: Underground 2, Avatarika, Fallout: New Vegas, N-Ball, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Zombie Army Trilogy, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux, and The Solus Project.
The StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Age of Empires, Gauntlet, Motocross Madness, League of Legends, and various other Ureal Engine 4 games should also work better now on your Linux PC with Wine 1.9.24, which also brings improvements for the Anthem Room Correction 2 v1.0.1, ProtectDisc Driver 11, and GOG Galaxy apps.
Below, we've attached the full changelog if you're curious to know what exactly has been changed in Wine 1.9.24, and in the meantime, you can download the source archive right now from our website if you fancy compiling it for your favorite GNU/Linux distribution.