From 4a7591b193e0d76b59f4a6a93d88ecad940c3816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robbert van der Helm Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 14:31:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Put back the recommendation to stick with Wine 6.4 Wine Staging 6.11 seemed to work fine for a bit, but somehow even more software is broken than in 6.10. And the crashes are not even deterministic anymore. --- README.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d789596a..c6460b7e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ while also staying easy to debug and maintain. ## Tested with -Yabridge has been tested under the following hosts using Wine Staging 6.11: +Yabridge has been tested under the following hosts using Wine Staging +6.4[\*](#downgrading-wine): | Host | VST2 | VST3 | | ------------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | @@ -75,6 +76,12 @@ Linux Mint and Pop!\_OS should install Wine Staging from the [WineHQ repositories](https://wiki.winehq.org/Download) as the versions of Wine provided by those distro's repositories will likely be too old to be used with yabridge. +At the moment it's recommended to stick with Wine Staging 6.4 since newer +versions have regressions that tend to cause many popular plugins to crash +during shutdown, downloads in Native Access to fail, and Wine processes to not +shut down properly. See [below](#downgrading-wine) for instructions on +downgrading to Wine Staging 6.4. + For a general overview on how to use Wine to install Windows applications, check out Wine's [user guide](https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_Guide#Using_Wine).