Lutris 0.5.1 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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First release after the initial 0.5 branch creation, this version brings a lot of stability to the GOG integration, the PGA cache and introduces a new feature to submit problems to the lutris team!

When running lutris --submit-issue, you'll be prompted with a message box asking you to describe your problem. This will generate a file you can send to the support team to help troubleshooting your issues.

Changelog:

• Download the default Lutris Wine version when not available
• Prevent duplicates when importing games from 3rd party services
• Fix some sorting issues in the view
• Add issue reporting feature with the --submit-issue flag. The issue can
  only be saved locally, API integration will be implemented at a later stage.
• Add support for CD-ROM images for non CD32/CDTV Amiga models
• Remove website search from sidebar and merge it with the main search entry
• Display a warning message if the installed Nvidia driver is too old
• Fix GOG games not being installable without being connected to GOG
• Improve performance of log handling
• Remove winecfg if Proton is used
• Use discrete graphics by default with compatible systems
• Increase game icon size from 32x32 to 128x128
• Various fixes

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Lutris 0.5.0.1 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

Bugfix release for 0.5.0

Fixes the side panel not showing when running a game, issues with GPU detection and distribution packaging fixes.

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Lutris 0.5.0 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Modernize the Gtk UI, thanks to the improvements made by @TingPing
• Add GOG support, allowing users to sign-in their account, import games and
  download game files automatically during install.
• Add finer game import options, allowing imports from different 3rd party
  such as Steam, GOG and locally installed games.
• Re-architecture the process monitor. This fixes issues with games exiting
  prematurely. Many thanks to @AaronOpfer for his patches!
• Multiple games can now be launched at the same time without losing control
  over the first game.
• Game information and actions are now displayed in a panel on the right side.
  Coverart fetching for the panel will be added in a future release, until then
  cover art files can be placed in ~/.local/share/lutris/coverart/[game-identifier].jpg
• Games from lutris.net can be searched and installed from the client itself.
• New install_cab_component installer command for Media Foundation based games.
• Add a download cache to re-use files between installations.
• Print graphics drivers and GPU on startup
• Re-design installer selection picker.
• Add a button to show installer scripts before installing.
• Add a FPS limiter option when libstrangle is available (https://gitlab.com/torkel104/libstrangle)
• Re-architecturing of several parts of the application (views, linux
  feature detection, main game class, ...)

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Lutris 0.4.23 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Prevent monitor from quitting games that open a 2nd process
• Run on-demand scripts from game directory
• Tell the user what executable is expected after a failed install
• Fix a circular import causing issues on some distributions
• Add missing dependency for openSUSE Tumbleweed

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Lutris 0.4.22 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Use lspci instead of xrandr to detect video cards
• Detect if Vulkan is supported by the system for DXVK games
• Add experimental playtime support
• Detect Proton and add it to Wine versions
• Fix runtime being downloaded when not needed
• Add experimental tray icon with last games played
• Add support for Feral Gamemode
• Prevent process monitor to quit games prematurely
• Code cleanup

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Lutris 0.4.21.1 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

 Fix detection of libvulkan

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Lutris 0.4.21 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Added an Esync toggle for wine builds with esync patches and a check for limits if the toggle was activated.
• Added a warning for wine games if wine is not installed on the system (to avoid issues with dependencies).
• Added a check for Vulkan loaders when using DXVK (forbids from launching the game if it can't detect them)
• Added check for the presence of executable after the installation finished.
• Added an option to sort installed games first
• Added a discouraging warning if Lutris was launched as root.
• Added a "--version" command line option.
• Added an error message if requested DXVK version does not exist.
• Improved behavior of Lutris' background process.
• Improved UI when changing game's identifier.
• Wine's own Virtual Desktop configuration is now respected.
• Merge command now has a 'copy' alias.
• Executable selection how has a text field.
• Blacklisted Proton and SteamWorks from showing up as games.
• Sidebar now shows number of installed games per runner and platform.
• Visual improvements to wine download dialog
• Fixed an issue when DXVK versions didn't get updated if dxvk directory wasn't present.
• Fixed an issue when the watcher would sync Steam games even if the feature was disabled.
• Fixed missing warning for existing prefix during installation process if the path contained "~".
• Prevent Steam games from being synced from the AppManifest watcher if Steam sync if off
• Games load properly when launching Lutris for the first time
• Minor improvements to wording in some menus.

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Lutris 0.4.20 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Fix detection of winetricks path
• Improve visual feedback on wine download dialog
• Add skill and command-line arguments for Zdoom
• Add option to disable joypad auto-configuration
• Restore refresh rate on monitor reset

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Lutris 0.4.19 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Prioritize winetricks from the runtime
• Populate DXVK versions with github releases
• Add support for DirectX 10 with DXVK
• Fix detection of xgamma
• Add 24BPP option for Xephyr
• Restore Alsa option for Wine
• Prepend additional system paths to runtime

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Lutris 0.4.18.1 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

Make Lutris installable on distributions with Python 3.7

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Lutris 0.4.18 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Fix 'execute' command arguments
• Fix 'write_json' command when no file exists
• Avoid crash when wine prefix has broken symlinks
• Update DXVK latest version to 0.52
• Update winetricks

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Lutris 0.4.17 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Add DVXK version option
• Fixes in Wine registry handling
• Prioritize /usr/lib32 over Lutris runtime
• Re-enable Lutris runtime if using a Lutris Wine build
• Fix xrandr parsing when DisplayPort are available
• Get pids used by wineserver (experimental, likely to be removed)

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Lutris 0.4.16 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Fix crash preventing running or configuring wine games
• Fix Steam being shut down regardless of the associated option's setting
• Fix some external library folders not being detected
• Fix crash on InstallerWindow for GTK < 3.22
• Remove Ctrl+Q shortcut

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Lutris 0.4.15 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Add RPCS3 runner
• Prevent Lutris from killing Steam if it's downloading a game
• Add option to run DRM free Steam games without opening Steam
• Add custom-name directive for install scripts
• Set default Wine architecture to 64bit
• Add support for DXVK in Wine games
• Prioritize libraries in /usr/lib over the Lutris runtime
• Disable Lutris runtime on Wine games if Wine is installed globally
• Download recent wine version if the system installed one is too old
• Record installation date of games
• Add option for menu mode key in MESS
• Support hard disk images for FS-UAE
• Various UI fixes

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Lutris 0.4.14 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Add option to include and exclude processes from monitoring in installers
  and during gameplay.
• Add winekill installer task
• Fix lutris eating 100% CPU after game quits
• Fix the way wine games quit
• Fix Wine Steam being killed on game exit even if the option is disabled
• Add support for 64bit dinput8.dll for x360ce
• Add support for dumbxinputemu as a x360ce alternative
• Add option to enable xinput9_1_0.dll in x360ce
• Deprecate koku-xinput option
• Add system option to enable DRI_PRIME
• Add more platforms to Mednafen
• Better controller support for Mednafen

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Lutris 0.4.13 has been released

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Changelog :

• Add new libretro cores
• Stop process monitoring as soon as process stops
• Default 'reset_desktop' option to False
• Make calling executables more robust
• Fix xboxdrv not being monitored properly

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Lutris 0.4.12 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Increase process monitor delay
• Increase HTTP requests timeouts
• Disable stdout logger for unmonitored processes
• Display error when downloaded file doesn't resolve to a filename
• Add support for symlinks in tar archives
• Fix sqlite query error when syncing games
• Fix installation of local scripts
• Catch errors while reading Steam VDF files

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Lutris 0.4.11 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Add system option to disable process monitoring
• Finish ScummVM game importing
• Fix path resolution for local installer scripts
• Fix 'execute' installer command not being monitored
• Fix I/O watch hogging a CPU core after game quits
• Code cleanup

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Lutris 0.4.10 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Remove PCSX-R runner
• Migrate PCSX-R games to use PCSX Rearmed on RetroArch
• Fix game config being overidden if edited while the game is running
• Fix Y Axis mapping for the Dual Shock 3 in X360CE
• Add dinput8 option for X360CE for games requiring it (Dead Space 2,
  Darksiders, ...)
• Add dialog to optionally sync Steam and XDG desktop shortcuts at startup
• (Re)add ScummVM import
• Reenable Lutris runtime by default for Dolphin
• Update Winetricks (Fixes .NET 3.5 installation)
• Avoid a crash if Wine prefix is not created
• Update Wine and Steam icons
• Add support for lutris:rungame/... and lutris:install/... urls
• Always instanciate the client's window even when installing or launching
  a game
• Stop Lutris process monitor instantly when all child processes have quit,
  speeds up game installs and prevents zombie processes.
• Display real time console output in the game log dialog
• Display real time console output during game installations
• Add option to launch the Steam client instead of the game in Wine Steam

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Lutris 0.4.9 has been released

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The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

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Changelog :

• Add option to auto-configure x360ce in Wine games based on plugged in controllers
• Add support for batch files in Wine
• Fix FS-UAE path handling
• Fix regedit commands on newer Wine versions
• Fix local offline script installation

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