As you may know, Wine Staging is a special version of Wine that provides support for projects like Pipelight. The Pipelight developer forked wine into wine-staging and included some Pipelight-specific enhancements and some other features not present in the regular wine software.
Among others, it brings support for Nvidia graphics cards with support for CUDA, PhysX and NVENC plus CSMT to improve graphics performance and a few others.
The latest version available is Wine Staging 1.9.4, which has been recently released, bringing changes:
- Implement advapi32.RegCopyTree
- Improve WTSQueryUserToken stub
- Use assembler wrapper to call MONITORENUMPROC callback
- Add support for paths on a metafile HDC
- Fix enumeration of display driver properties using setupapi
- Fix calling convention of glDebugMessageCallback callback function
- Forward activate window requests to WM using _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
- Implement d3dx9_36.D3DXCreateTextureShader with stub interface
- Implement stub for d3dx9_36.D3DXFillCubeTextureTX
- Initial implementation for d3dx9_36.D3DXDisassembleShader
- Improve invalid parameter handling in NtAccessCheck
- Silence repeated FIXME message in Parser_QueryInterface
- MessageBox should be topmost when MB_SYSTEMMODAL style is set
Installation instructions:
Up to date Wine Staging packages are available via the developer’s PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu is easy. Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine-staging package:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging
If you want the 64 bit version of wine-staging also install the wine-staging-amd64 package:
$ sudo apt-get install wine-staging-amd64
Wine Staging can be used along wine because it installs in /opt/wine-staging, while the regular wine can be found in /opt/wine.
The installation instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.