Your x86 Windows apps may now run on ARM64 thanks to Wine's AVX support

Credit: David J. Buck / How-To Geek Published Nov 13, 2026, 8:17 PM EST Tyler Cross is an author for How-To Geek who reports on a wide range of cybersecurity stories. Before this, he spent 5 years creating cybersecurity articles under the Kape brand, including both short- and long-form blog posts. He also has 2+ years of experience creating news articles, YouTube scripts, and product reviews for a wide range of VPNs, antivirus software, password managers, and more. Outside of work, I am an avid tabletop gamer and enjoy writing my own TTRPG systems and campaign modules. Sign in to your How-To Geek account Wine 11.22 is now available, updating the popular compatibility layer that lets you use Windows apps and games on Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like operating systems. The update adds AVX support to ARM64 Linux systems, making it easier to use Windows applications on Linux. AVX is a series of processing instructions that some apps need to function properly; Wine 11.22 adds support for AVX instructions when running x86 applications on ARM64 systems, removing a compatibility obstacle for software that needs those instructions. It also includes a new security feature that makes it harder for attackers to predict a program’s location in memory. "Wine 11.22 also introduces address space randomization, a security mechanism that makes memory layouts less predictable," Linuxiac reported. "Other improvements include updated locale data based on Unicode CLDR 49, more accurate glyph metrics for the Tahoma font, and a reimplementation of Document Type Definition validation in MSXML." The new feature closely resembles an existing Windows feature, Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), which follows the same principles and makes it harder for attackers to predict where to exploit. Wine 11.22 also fixes 34 bugs affecting video games and applications The Wine Developers updated its Vulkan renderer, fixing a large series of incompatibility issues that were causing these games to crash, fail to load, or have major visual bugs. It fixed several bugs with Windows games, including crashes during the Dragon Age: Origins introductory screen and loading pages. It also fixed broken character models and animations in Black Mirror II and III. The update also applies bug fixes to games like Guild Wars 2, Alan Wake, and Alan Wake's American Nightmare, all of which struggled to work properly. Wine 11.22 also fixes an issue that caused F.E.A.R. 3 to exit at startup because FindResourceEx no longer checked the explicitly requested language ID 0x8301. Finally, the update fixed a missing RGB565 Vulkan swapchain fallback that caused crashes in various games. These changes improve compatibility, but they don't guarantee that every affected application will work perfectly. Other fixes include an incorrect menu bar in Notepad++, a crash when opening WinSCP's About window, graphical glitches and flickering menus in Logos Bible Software, and startup crashes when using FreeCommander, a free Windows file manager, when WINE was configured to report a Windows version newer than Windows XP. It also fixed a bug in FastStone Image Viewer 5.9, where pressing the keyboard shortcut to crop an image while in full-screen mode failed to open the cropping window. "At the system level, the release includes fixes for thread-handling problems in Wine’s server infrastructure, missing Windows Management Instrumentation properties, and support for importing ECDSA keys in the Windows cryptography implementation," Linuxiac writes. The source code is available for download now on the GitLab.wine release page located here. Binary packages for supported Linux distributions will be provided through that project’s download page. If you're using Intel or AMD systems, you should check the individual app and game fixes to see which changes are relevant to you. Locale data updated to Unicode CLDR 49. AVX support in x86 emulation on ARM64. Address space randomization. Improved glyph metrics in Tahoma font. DTD validation reimplemented in MSXML. Various bug fixes. Source: Linuxiac via Gitlab.wine