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As of 29-Dec-2015 current repo for Wine/Gallium-Nine is still available for wine-1.7.55. A couple weeks ago I took decision to merge to new feature added byt iXit Team - the Staging Tab - to latest wine-staging sources. Moreoever there are currently two known patches that I added for Steam

my New Winecfg for Wine 1.7.55 and over: Checkbox for Gallium-Nine added to "Original Staging" Tab

Wine-Staging Version	Download	Comments
1.9.0	Wine-Staging-1.9.0_Gallium-Nine_Steam-Hacks.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.9.0 Applied patches for Gallium Nine. I updated the patches to merge original "Staging Tab" from wine-staging Team and iXit Team Applied patches for Steam Applied patch so my webcam Logitech HD Pro C920 can work with Facerig
1.8.0	Wine-Staging-1.8.0_Gallium-Nine_Steam-Hacks.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.8.0 Applied patches for Gallium Nine. I updated the patches to merge original "Staging Tab" from wine-staging Team and iXit Team Applied patches for Steam Applied patch so my webcam Logitech HD Pro C920 can work with Facerig
1.8-rc4	Wine-Staging-1.8rc4_Gallium-Nine_Steam-Hacks.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.8-rc4 Applied patches for Gallium Nine. I updated the patches to merge original "Staging Tab" from wine-staging Team and iXit Team Applied patches for Steam Applied patch so my webcam Logitech HD Pro C920 can work with Facerig
1.8-rc3	Wine-Staging-1.8-rc3_Gallium-Nine_Steam-Hacks.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.8-rc3 Applied patches for Gallium Nine. I updated the patches to merge original "Staging Tab" from wine-staging Team and iXit Team Applied patches for Steam Applied patch so my webcam Logitech HD Pro C920 can work with Facerig
1.8-rc2	Wine-Staging-1.8-rc2_Gallium-Nine_Steam-Hacks.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.8-rc2 Applied patches for Gallium Nine. I updated the patches to merge original "Staging Tab" from wine-staging Team and iXit Team Applied patches for Steam
1.7.55	Wine-Staging-1.7.55_Gallium-Nine_Steam-Hacks.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.7.55 Applied patches for Gallium Nine. I updated the patches to merge original "Staging Tab" from wine-staging Team and iXit Team Applied patches for Steam
1.7.52	Wine-Staging-1.7.52_GalliumNine.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.7.52 Applied patches for Gallium Nine.
1.7.51	Wine-Staging-1.7.51_GalliumNine.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.7.51 Applied patches for Gallium Nine.
1.7.48	Wine-Staging-1.7.48_GalliumNine.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.7.48 Applied patches for Gallium Nine.
1.7.47	Wine-Staging-1.7.47_GalliumNine.tar.bz2	Applied patches for wine-staging 1.7.47 Applied patches for Gallium Nine.

Those cards should give nice performance with Gallium Nine.

Card	Comment
HD 7970	Tested with more than 45 games/projects
R9 280X	It is a HD 7970 OC. Performance should be almost the same
R9 290	Pretty good card. Should get good performance on game like Final Fantasy XIV
R9 290X	Pretty good card. Should get good performance on game like Final Fantasy XIV

Notice: when I wrote "nice performances" keep it mind that performances depends on (It is really important to write it ? So Obvious!!!)

• The game. Whatever your card is performance (sometime) should be almost the same (high or low).
• New/Removed implementations in Mesa/RadeonSI/Gallium-Nine. You can have good performances for old versions and bad performances with new versions. With DarkSider II in the past I was not able to use Gallium Nine. Now we get 60 FPS for this game.

For January 2016 I plan to reuse my R9 290X just for the fun for a couple of games. Just to see if this card will do its job with Gallium-Nine/RadeonSI. My pretty old HD 7970 card was used for more than one year and one month.

UPDATE 30-Dec-2015: Sources are now available here

As I did for Wine trough 1.7.55 - 1.8 yesterday I was able to merge

• Wine 1.9.0
• Wine-Staging 1.9.0
• Gallium-Nine -- latest patches extracted from iXit github repo (HTTP: https://github.com/iXit/wine | GIT https://github.com/iXit/wine.git)

On 28-Dec-2015 for Gallium-Nine there are 43 patches. Since I wanted to merge "Staging Tab" from Wine-Staging and "Staging Tab" from iXit

• 32 patches can be applied directly
• The other have to be applied directly or reversed or updated manually

There are 2 or 3 patches that I didn't apply. Those patches deal with cleaning up the code. It didn't work for me. So I let it as it is. (= without cleaning up the code)

I will add patches for Steam (steamwebhelper.exe). See Section "Steam Client Build Issues" on the page for Steam on WineHQ Web Site

This game is F2P (FreeToPlay). It is almost like GTA (even if I didn't play GTA )

1. Patch for wine

You have to patch Wine so this game can work.

• You can download my own sources for Wine-Staging 1.8.0 patched with Gallium-Nine
• After that you have to apply this patch https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=51697

  cd /path/to/Wine/Sources
  wget "https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=51697" -O - |patch -p1

2. Video (Youtube)

3. Prerequisites

winetricks -q dotnet20 ie8

For the peace of mind try this

winetricks -q dotnet20 ie8 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 vcrun2012

4. Tips to know

The launcher freezes trying to re-install "Client1.19....zip"

• Kill the game

  wineserver -k

• Relaunch Steam and the game. Sometime you may have to do this 2 or 3 times. To be honest I don't really know why

The game takes a lot of times to start

• It should take from 20 to 50 seconds to start as shown in video above