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Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic


Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux.

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux. In turn this should fix some crashes due to DirectMusic happening with select games. Beyond the DirectMusic work there is updating of the latest VKD3D Git code and an update to the NtGdiExtTextOutW patch as part of this bi-weekly staging release.

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