Available Wine 2.14 with greater support for video games

The Wine development team has announced the release of the new development version 2.14 which includes several improvements and some new features. Wine 2.14 has been published a few days ago, with which in this new development version several improvements focused mainly on performance with video games have been included.

Lately the Wine development team has been working hard on the 2.xx branch, constantly updating and improving performance by leaps and bounds. Bill with improvements to the Mono engine and various bug fixes, adds a C ++ calling convention fix in the IDL compiler, Z-order support for the Android graphics driver.

Between the most relevant changes in this new version, we highlight the following:

• Support for mouse cursor scaling is added in OS X.
• Fixes a crash on Steam for the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and Saints Row 3 games.
• Fixed a display bug in the Worms Armageddon game.
• Fixed a bug which prevented the Dead by Daylight game from running.
• Fixed various graphical distortion bugs when playing Starcraft 2.
• Fixed a bug which caused the mouse cursor in the game Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic to not be visible.
• This new development version has included several improvements.

How to install Wine 2.14 on Ubuntu?

The packages are currently under construction and will appear soon in their respective download locations. So if you want to start testing this new version for the moment, there is only the source code of it to compile.

You can download it from this link.

If you want to add the repository and wait a few days for it to be completely added, I leave you the method.

First we will have to enable the 32-bit architecture (if you have a 64 bit system)If you have a 32-bit one, this step is not necessary; To activate it, it is with the following command:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

We proceed to install Wine, first we will have to add the official repository in our system and update the repositories.

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
sudo apt-get update

Done this, we proceed to install essential packages for Wine can run smoothly.

sudo apt-get --download-only install winehq-devel
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade 

We can verify which version of Wine we have with:

Wine --version