WinNative-Emu/WinNative v0.3.0-beta on GitHub

FEX-Emu / UnixLibs support

WinNative now supports FEX-Emu UnixLibs (native .so thunked libraries). A new toggle next to the FEXCore version lets you enable the native library backend per container, with name-based compatibility handling. This can noticeably improve performance for supported titles.

Proton & component updates

New/updated Proton 11.0-1 layers — an updated custom ARM64EC build plus an x86-64 (Steam) build — alongside the existing Proton 10.x, 11.0-5, and 11.1-GE options.
New Unix Protons: Proton layers compiled with UnixLibs for the FEXCore backend (9.0, 10, 10.0-4, 11-B5, and 11.0-1 ARM64EC-Steam), pairing with the new FEX-Emu UnixLibs support.
New Stable FEXCore-with-UnixLibs build.
The in-app component hub was refreshed so all of the above show up directly in the downloader.

Handheld & full gamepad control

You can now control the entire app with a controller — no touch input needed. Navigate the library, set up containers, and even open and drive the in-game XServer menu with a gamepad (hold the Xbox/guide button to bring it up).
New library shortcuts for handhelds: R3 to add a game, L3 to search, X to enter the hero view, and more.
Touchscreen controls now auto-hide when a physical controller is connected.

Steam

The custom Steam client keeps growing: Steam Friends, messaging, chat notifications, chat heads, and in-game chat are now available, along with achievements, launch options, and profile images.
Steam downloads have been fixed and hardened for reliability.
The Steam library now refreshes correctly after a game exits — sessions self-heal on app resume, so library changes appear immediately.

External displays & Viture glasses

Initial support for external monitors, TVs, casting, and Viture XR glasses. Run your game on the big screen while the device handles input.
Automatic output switching is gated behind a new toggle (off by default) so nothing changes unless you opt in.

Library overhaul & built-in file manager

The library UI has been restyled with a refreshed top bar, accent colors, and cleaner add-game flow.
A new in-app file manager can be opened right from the library top bar — browse drive roots, copy/move files with progress, all without leaving the app.
File pickers now accept .bat and .cmd files, and tapping a file highlights it instead of instantly confirming.

Frontend support

New frontend export: WinNative can write standalone .desktop entries plus icons into a folder of your choice so external frontends (Daijishō, ES-DE, etc.) can scan and launch your games. Export per-game from the game detail screen, or everything at once with the Export All chip.

Touch controls refinement

New Touch card replaces the old double-mouse card, with a touchscreen mode and a "map right stick like GameHub" option that lets the right stick drive the touch screen like a mouse (when a gamepad touch profile is active).
RTS-style gestures, expanded up to 4 fingers, with new gesture-specific profiles.
A right-stick sensitivity slider has been added to Controls.
Touch control profiles are now remembered per shortcut instead of globally.

Containers & components

Install components per container from a list — install Visual C++, DirectX, and more without ever booting the container.
New hero buttons: Boot to Desktop and Graphics Test are now available directly from the container view.
The setup wizard has been refined, and component downloads can now be queued.
A dinput8 Native/Builtin toggle has been added to container settings.

Performance & graphics

The FPS cap now aligns frame pacing to the display's vsync grid, so caps become exact vsync dividers. This removes microstutter at low caps on high-refresh panels.
New Wrapper-Leegao graphics driver option, plus an updated wrapper build.
New Wrapper-Gamenative graphics driver option — a third graphics wrapper that enables DX12 on Mali GPUs with r50+ kernel drivers, with its own BCn transcoder (CPU/GPU) and BCn quality (low/high) settings.
Three new Qualcomm GPU system drivers built by @Xnick417x: 800.72, 842.38, and 842.41.
BCn (texture compression) emulation now defaults to auto.
FX effects can now be set per shortcut, and the FX tab has been extended with more effects.
Fixed red/blue channel swap on devices where BGRA8 was expected but the buffer was RGBA8 (thanks @formiga).
Fixed the black-box flash on newly mapped windows.
D7VK can now be imported as a ddraw wrapper, and d3d8/d3d10 builtins are preserved from the DXVK pre-extract wipe.

Audio

PulseAudio has been overhauled by adopting the GameNative PulseAudio stack, fixing games that had broken or missing audio with PulseAudio (credit to the GameNative project).
Fixed audio crackling via larger output buffers.

Cloud saves

Cloud saves have been hardened against data loss: restores now roll back on failure, Steam saves resolve the correct container on launch, and Epic/GOG keep-local choices are honored.
A new Backup To Google option has been added.

New C.TMP element shows CPU temperature; battery temperature is now labeled B.TMP.
HUD backdrop transparency is now adjustable.

Background UI customization has been added to Settings.
Logs: the application log now works correctly, a download button has been added to the log UI, and the Logs drawer card has moved after Tasks.
Fixed container boot crash on Android 12 and below (API < 33).
Fixed Z: drive boot and shortcut creation, and drives are no longer force-recreated every boot.
Custom games no longer create an incorrect C: drive symlink, and symlinks are excluded from container storage size.
Stopped forcing VKD3D_SHADER_MODEL and per-launch xinput variables, and updated Box64 environment variables.
Fixed native extraction IO for more reliable ImageFS/component installs.
Fixed HTTP 403 errors on GOG chunk downloads (the chunk path was being appended after the signed query string); GOG downloads now work reliably.
Bundled ffmpeg 8 libraries for Wine's winedmo media path, improving in-game video/cutscene (FMV) playback.
Chat head overlay is now gated behind the background toggle, and redundant Wine log channels were removed.
Background-session reattach hardened: mouse and on-screen/gamepad controls are restored on reattach, and the input ring no longer overflows or randomly drops gamepad input (held inputs are released when the in-session menu opens, and the XServer menu reattaches correctly).
Resized the XServer menu drawer and refined several dialogs, strings, and icons.
Concurrency, crash, and protocol fixes from a source audit.
More missing translations have been filled in across languages.

The in-container downloader has been updated to Ajay Prefix Pro v1.8. Read more: https://github.com/ajay9634/Ajay-prefix

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed, this release wouldn't exist without you:

@Xnick417x — 64 commits (handheld/gamepad control, library overhaul + file manager, touch controls, per-container components, FPS cap pacing, FX, HUD, Wrapper-Gamenative, 3 new Qualcomm GPU drivers (800.72/842.38/842.41), 2 Proton layers, background-session reattach fixes, many fixes)
@maxjivi05 — 17 commits (FEX-Emu UnixLibs, all Proton layers incl. the new Unix Protons, Steam features / download fixes / library refresh, external display/Viture support, PulseAudio, cloud saves hardening)
@ajay9634 — 2 commits (Ajay Prefix Pro v1.8 downloader)
@muazkadan — 1 commit (GOG chunk-download 403 fix, #604)
@formiga — 1 commit (AHB GPUImage red/blue channel swizzle fix, #533)

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