Wine 8.0 has now been declared as stable. In it were five release candidates which “represents a year of development effort” and over 8,600 changes. The main achievement of this release, as brought out in the patch notes, “is the completion of the conversion to PE format.” The PE conversion itself took four years worth of work! But it’s important to have as this, as this is a “milestone on the road to supporting various features” such as copy protection and x86 application support on ARM.

A Reddit user may have discovered how to play the beloved racing title on NVIDIA without random crashing (perhaps could work for AMD as well?).

Note: since Valve is copy/pasting the patch notes from the desktop client, some of these patch notes may NOT be for the Steam Deck! I am unable to confirm since I am on stable. Steam Input Reworked the layout of the mode settings page to show more content Added upper grips as an option for mode shifts Filtered Mode Shift button options to only show available buttons based on the controller type- Fixed chord activator options for XBox and XBox Elite controller types Improved Layout Preview for Nintendo Switch Joycon Left/Right/Pair Fixed Capture button icon not being displayed for Joycon Pair Fixed the Switch Pro Layout Preview not showing the gyro Nintendo Switch SL/SR buttons now show up as Bumpers for single Joycons or Grip buttons for a JoyCon Pair Joycon individual/pair Gyro now displays and functions properly Deck Desktop

Counting the DMCA from Nintendo in three…two…one…

See your Deck’s internals while you’re playing!

New Proton Experimental update improves multi-touch support and fixes the ’native’ scrollbar always being visible with FFXIV Online launcher.

Here’s your weekly news cap for January 14-20th.

The patch notes mention for this particular release candidate that it should be “the last…before the final 8.0.” Not as big of an update as previous release candidates, but bug fixes we did get for a few titles, including Dark Souls Remastered, Mafia III, War Mongrels, The Medium, and Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. A total of nine bugs were fixed: #26822 Double click the icon in the title bar should close the window #32643 getsockopt() does not indicate WSAEFAULT when setting optlen too small #45542 WeGame hangs after login.

Aya Neo Next 2 challenges the PC handheld market with discrete graphics. Aya Neo OS expected later this year.

Four DX12 titles should no longer crash on launch!