Wine 1.9.7 Released with More Support for Shader Model 5 Shaders, 42 Bug Fixes | Linux Today

Wine 1.9.7 Released with More Support for Shader Model 5 Shaders, 42 Bug Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Apr 1, 2016

Wine 1.9.7 brings additional support for Shader Model 5 shaders, which has been introduced in the previous snapshot, Wine 1.9.6, released on two weeks ago, on March 18, 2016, along with support for Windows-style static import libraries, and C++ exception handling for 64-bit (x86_64) hardware architectures.

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Marius Nestor

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