Note:
I did not have enough time to do thorough regression testing for video playback after making recent changes, however several games that had video playback issues in 11-1 have since been fixed. Many of the VR related issues have also been fixed. I wanted to get this release out because it contains important fixes for allowing Marvel Rivals and Diablo IV to run correctly.
• Scope
Game Fixes
- Star Citizen: repaired WineOpenXR Vulkan integration and external VR support.
- VRChat: fixed remote HLS/YouTube playback, audio, seeking, reloading, and consecutive queued videos.
- Witch on the Holy Night: fixed embedded bytestream video playback.
- FAVORITE visual novels: fixed black-screen video with audio.
- Deadly Premonition: fixed hanging, timing, and allocator-backed video output.
- GTA San Andreas: fixed MPEG videos displaying black and corrected audio/video synchronization.
- Yakuza 5 Remastered: fixed startup video crashes and ignored no-op decoder format changes.
- Riddle Joker: fixed green padding bars in video output.
- Dragon’s Dogma 2: fixed green video padding bars.
- Cyberpunk 2077 / issues #567 and #588: reduced audio delays and fixed a null-handling failure.
- Killing Floor 3: added real decoder format propagation and Winsock address validation.
- MapleStory: fixed startup failures involving accessibility settings and CharPrevA/CharPrevExA null pointers.
- LimeLight Lemonade Jam: added the missing GetFileVersionInfoByHandle compatibility stub.
- Gears 2 Hollow installer: added ICU forwarding DLL support.
- Battle.net and Warframe: added --in-process-gpu handling for Wine Wayland launchers.
- Battle.net: fixed Wine Wayland white-screen behavior.
- Issue #551: preserved the real OpenGL GPU/device description reported by wined3d.
- Issue #610: added a secur32 fallback for the older GnuTLS shipped by SteamRT4.
- Issue #638: added layered-window extended-style handling.
- Issue #605: added long-running PulseAudio timestamp-wrap and starvation recovery.
- Imported upstream fix for Diablo IV
- Imported upstream fix for Marvel Rivals
Media Rework
- Rebased the FFmpeg/winedmo video stack onto newer Wine.
- Added remote HLS URL support.
- Improved media-session state transitions, seeking, replay, stream completion, and decoder format changes.
- Added codec-aligned padding initialization and legacy Quartz output handling.
- Improved audio clock recovery, starvation handling, and long-running stream timing.
- Removed duplicate or obsolete media patches after upstream changes.
Controller Support
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Added wired USB haptics for:
- DualShock 4
- DualSense
- DualSense Edge
, tested confirmed working in stellar blade and spider-man remastered
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Added controller mono-speaker/effect-audio output., tested confirmed working in spider-man remastered
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Added PulseAudio routing to the correct Sony controller speaker profile., tested confirmed working in spider-man remastered
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Fixed hotplugging and switching among DS4, DualSense, and DualSense Edge., tested confirmed working in spider-man remastered
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Added fresh endpoint registration, stale endpoint cleanup, stream retargeting, stable endpoint IDs, and
duplicate udev-device filtering. -
Fixed controller speaker routing after repeated disconnects, reconnects, and model changes., tested confirmed working in spider-man remastered
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Standardized the controller implementation on PulseAudio instead of direct ALSA endpoint exposure.
Graphics And Scaling
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Added complete OptiScaler download, injection, and Protonfixes integration.
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Added FSR4/FFX4 version selection and updated AMD scaler support.
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Updated AMD amdxc/FSR4 support through the newer EM-11 patchset.
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Added NVIDIA compatibility libraries:
- NVAPI
- CUDA
- NVENC
- NVML
- OptiX
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Added Vulkan layers and corrected their missing submodule definitions.
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Updated DXVK, DXVK-NVAPI, VKD3D-Proton, D7VK, Vulkan headers, and FEX.
Wine And Wayland
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Updated to newer bleeding-edge Wine revisions.
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Rebased the EM-11 Wine Wayland patchset.
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Improved layered windows, fractional scaling, pointer warping, keyboard mappings, IME handling, popup windows,
exclusive fullscreen, monitor placement, surface caching, and window restoration. -
Removed deprecated dw-proton patches already superseded by EM-11 or upstream Wine.
Build And Release
- Fixed AArch64 builds by packaging missing SteamRT4 libraries, including bzip2.
- Fixed README download scripts to select the correct x86_64 or AArch64 archive and checksum.
- Fixed the AArch64 archive-name regular expression.
- Imported newer upstream Proton build, Docker, and launcher-script changes.
- Restored prefix creation after an imported Proton-script regression.
- Fixed missing NVIDIA and Vulkan-layer submodule URLs.
- Prevented release automation from failing when a release already exists.
- Expanded the compatibility-report issue template.
- Cleaned duplicate scaler, hotfix, and obsolete patch references.