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Saturday, December 16, 2017

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.0 RC 2 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.0 RC 2 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.


Bugs fixed in 3.0-rc2 (total 17):

  22682  Multiple games need function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXGetShaderInputSemantics (Far Cry 2/3, Avatar, Faery: Legends of Avalon, Civilization 4, Deathspank, Of Orcs and Men)
  32202  ActiveX install attempts to run wrong inf section
  39586  Fallout 4 - Steam Version - Crash on Start-up
  40046  Multiple games require CheckFormatSupport() (Banished, Magic Duels, UE4 tech demos, BioShock 2, Chronicles of Mystara, STO, Lichdom)
  40680  Rocket league needs bcrypt.dll.BCryptGenerateSymmetricKey
  40692  Rocket League needs AES encryption/ decryption implemented in bcrypt.dll
  40901  Factorio crashes with a stack overflow
  41463  Undefined symbols: _DisableThreadLibraryCalls _RaiseException
  43643  Combobox not longer has dropdown
  43915  uTorrent 2.2.1 build 25302 crashes after deleting the last torrent and exiting
  43953  Regression in Spellforce 2: message boxes about fatal dx9 errors appear on map loading
  44010  Armel support
  44130  Possible access to unintended variable in "dlls/comctl32/imagelist.c" line 299
  44147  regression in ole2 datacache
  44148  DX Library: Multiple PlaySoundMem() calls don't work when using XAudio2
  44153  ShellExecute crash when opening explorer.exe
  44171  PTHREAD_STACK_MIN breaks build on GNU hurd

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Monday, August 21, 2017

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.15 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.15 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Support for AES encryption.
  • Improved Bezier support in Direct2D.
  • Chunked transfer improvements in WinInet.
  • Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.


Bugs fixed in 2.15 (total 9):

  37981  Illustrator CS6: ruler area gets corrupted when moving mouse
  40399  emClient (.NET app) exits silently because GdipGetLineTransform is just a stub
  41422  Bricscad:  dots and small objects left "traces" while moving
  43120  Joystick enabled applications crash when a device that advertises more than 8 axes is attached
  43466  Microsoft Outlook 2010 cannot connect to MS Exchange Server
  43475  XM6 TypeG crashes on startup.
  43480  Peavey Revalver IV (Amp modeling software) crashes due to missing Win7+ Touch Input API (stubs)
  43503  FUJITSU Software ATLAS: unimplemented function msvcr80.dll._ismbcl0 called in 32-bit code
  43527  Magic Online  (Magic The Gathering: Online) Crashes due to LOCALE_SNAN returning empty string

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Saturday, June 10, 2017

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.10 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.10 is now available for Linux and Mac.

What's new in this release:
  • Initial version of the Android graphics driver.
  • Dictionary support in WebServices.
  • A number of Direct2D fixes.
  • User interface improvements in RegEdit.
  • OLE clipboard cache fixes.
  • Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.


Bugs fixed in 2.10 (total 21):

  16948  tmpfile() fails when run from Unix path
  26388  Sound Recorder crashes on encoding PCM Sample
  31967  Unreal Engine 3 games don't render anything on OS X
  32563  Purebasic does not display icons in toolbar which is drawn distorted.
  32809  Multiple applications and games need wmvcore.dll.WMCreateWriterPriv (KwSing, iMesh 7.x)
  38093  The main character is missing/invisible in Hitchcock: The Final Cut demo
  38328  WPS 2013 (Kingsoft) crash at install
  38731  TopoEdit tool from Windows SDK 8.1 crashes on unimplemented function mf.dll.MFCreateTopology
  39064  Path of Exile: resolution other than 1024x768 causes a crash
  39367  EA Origin crashes after installing games, needs mf.dll.MFCreateMediaSession
  39998  Medieval: Total War needs conversion from B5G5R5X1 to B5G5R5A1
  41489  notepad++ escape key
  42345  Dark souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin - no video
  42421  Sniper Elite V2 has faulty color determination
  42754  Seed of Andromeda Pre-Alpha 0.2 crashes
  42807  Coda Finale: call to unimplemented function IPHLPAPI.DLL.GetIfTable2Ex
  42994  wine can't be compiled by gcc-2.95.4 (mscoree/assembly.c)
  43020  Guitar Pro 7 needs msvcp140.dll._To_wide
  43053  Overexposed scene in fr-025: the.popular.demo by farbrausch
  43097  WarBR: game (WarS v5.5 p4) crashes on start, needs WMP IOleObject::GetExtent method implementation
  43127  Multiple 64-bit applications crash with stack overflow errors when Wine is compiled with GCC 7.x (set_context_reg in ntdll/signal_x86_64.c assumes Xmm registers are aligned)

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

The WineHQ Wine maintenance release 1.8.6 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine maintenance release 1.8.6 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Fix a regression introduced in 1.8.5 (#41627)
  • Various bug fixes.
  • A few more cards added to the GPU description table.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.


Bugs fixed in 1.8.6 (total 35):

  27671  ComboFix fails to install
  29661  wineboot unable to create win32 prefix if the directory already exists
  29916  ElsterFormular cannot make use of default PDF viewer (e. g. Okular)
  30368  AMD Radeon 6480g detected as ATI Radeon 3200
  30673  Smart Cutter 1.9.4 crashes when the button OPEN is pressed
  32694  NVIDIA GTX 690 not in the list of recognized cards.
  33636  wine cmd: invalid behaviour of '&' operator
  35025  Max Payne 2 Demo: checkboxes in options dialog have missing window styles
  35658  Anthem Room Correction 2 v1.0.1 reports 'Unknown COM error 0x80004001' (needs IAudioEndpointVolume::GetVolumeRange method implementation)
  36101  Wow Hangs at login screen when coming from battle.net launcher (only with gxapi Opengl)
  39447  Unimplemented function hid.dll.HidP_TranslateUsagesToI8042ScanCodes
  39734  ProtectDisc Driver 11: acedrv11.sys crashes
  40448  Final Fantasy XI: Missing character models, potential black screen and crashes
  40540  ReadIntervalTimeout is ignored if there is data in the buffer when ReadFile is called and no data arrives after that
  40746  Microsoft Expression Web 4 crashes when opening site, needs rpcrt4.dll.NdrAsyncServerCall
  40861  Kingsoft Office 2012 needs ntoskrnl.exe.IoAttachDevice
  40999  Epic Games Launcher needs ws2_32.InetNtopW
  41021  Zombie Army trilogy needs msvcr100.dll._fpieee_flt
  41050  Age of Mythology: Extended Edition needs api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll.__stdio_common_vswscanf
  41090  Multiple games (Starcraft 2, UE4 games) require vcruntime140.dll.__intrinsic_setjmp
  41142  gcc6: server build warnings
  41224  WineD3D8 crashes on Windows with GTAVC and i915-class video
  41284  dbghelp_dwarf: parse_cie_details unknown CIE version 4 (clang/mesa/valgrind)
  41308  iconfig.exe needs msvcr120.??0_Condition_variable@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ
  41343  Ellisys Visual USB needs unimplemented function newdev.dll.DiInstallDriverA
  41389  ComboFix fails to install: complains about missing HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\hivelist
  41405  Hornbill Supportworks Client 7.6.0: crashes with ExtFloodFill when open 'Incident Details' pane
  41428  The Forest: Terminal gets spammed with errors if Steam is running
  41570  Xenia emulator needs unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1.RtlLookupFunctionEntry called in 64-bit code
  41602  Videos do not play in Age of Empires
  41627  MS Word 2010 crash when exiting on Wine stable 1.8.5.
  41640  add rx 480 into directx.c
  41642  S3CC921 programmer app needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeSetTimerEx
  41651  WScript object name on wine is case sensitive which should not be the case (vbscript)
  41705  Build fails in dpnet: redefinition of typedef 'SOCKADDR'

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc2 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc2 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.



Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc2 (total 20):

  31222  Hitman: Blood Money crashes when changing screen resolution
  31309  TIE Fighter: Collector's Edition Crash - 'Escape Menu' Freezes Application.
  32632  Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 does not load with timeout error
  34829  wintrust:softpub crashes on Windows 8
  35495  sharing violation and prompt for copy /B file1+file2 file1
  38357  Cannot install download-audiograbber.exe
  39430  Ride : The motorcycle game does not start
  40256  user32:input fails on non-qwerty keyboards
  40344  shell32:assoc regression (privilege issue)
  40386  wininet:url regression caused by new cross-compiler
  40978  Wrong colors on i915 and similar GPUs in GTA Vice City
  41083  Red Faction: Guerrilla fails to start with DX11 renderer
  41133  R32/R16 typeless formats generate incomplete FBO errors when used as a render target (Gauntlet, WoW with D3D11 renderer)
  41141  gcc6: d3drm build warnings
  41252  Helldivers gives this error when trying to run on MacOS
  41630  Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum crashes on exit
  41715  winhttp:winhttp test regression (test_secure_connection)
  41717  webservices:writer test regression in test_datetime
  41949  Pasting into IDA Pro stops working on macOS
  41956  Regression in wininet crashes skype

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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

World Wine News issue 404

As with the last WWN, this time all the news are written by Stefan Dösinger! I just did the stats.
Enjoy!

Code Freeze

Alexandre has released Wine-2.0-rc1 and imposed martial law code freeze:

The release of 2.0-rc1 marks the beginning of code freeze towards 2.0.
Most of you probably know the drill already, but from now on, only
targeted bug fixes and other "safe" changes, like test fixes,
translation updates, etc. will be accepted.

I know that many people will soon be out for the holidays, but I hope we
can still make significant progress with the open bugs, particularly
with the bugs from the regression list. Now would also be a good time to
retest your favorite applications to make sure that there are no
regressions that we have missed.

As usual, I'll be making release candidates every week, until we run out
of bugs...

Thank you all for helping make Wine 2.0 as good as we can!

Direct3D 11 development

Wine‘s Direct3D 11 implementation is making progress! Over the past months Józef Kucia and Matteo Bruni have been slowly, but steadily piling on work in d3d11.dll and wined3d.dll to restructure and add the necessary features. A lot of work is still missing, so don‘t expect fancy titles to run yet. Simpler games have started working a year ago .

Last month Andrew Wesie sent a big patchset consisting of 23 changes to wine-patches that promised to make Blizzard‘s Overwatch run on Wine. Not all of these changes concerned d3d11 – some were changes to the way certain CPU registers are handled in ntdll‘s exception handler. Andrew indicated that those changes are necessary to make the game‘s anti-debug protection work. The d3d-related patches add a few missing d3d11 pieces: Instancing-related shader registers, buffer shader resource views, primitive restart and so on. He also warned that these patches are not enough to make the game run, and more work was needed.

Matteo and Henri Verbeet have provided reviews for the patches. The main concern were missing tests and some implementation details. Andrew has submitted tests and an implementation for two sided stencil, tests for the primitive restart index and the return instruction in shader functions . These patches passed review and are already included in Wine git. Józef has cleaned up Andrew‘s implementation of the return instruction, which is upstream now too.

Besides helping Andrew, Józef has been busy implementing Unordered Access Views (UAVs). They provide read-modify-write access to resources from shaders. Historically resources could either be read (Textures, Buffers) or written to (Render Targets), and it was not allowed to use the same resource for reading and writing at the same time. The OpenGL equivalent of this feature is called image load/store .

An open issue with anything newer than Direct3D9 is that wined3d still depends on legacy OpenGL 2 features and many drivers do not expose some features necessary for d3d10/11 in legacy contexts. With the MaxVersionGL key set wined3d will request a core context, but certain blitting corner cases are still broken. Mesa and the Nvidia binary driver mostly work. On MacOS you are most likely out of luck.

And finally here is a screenshot provided by Andrew showing Overwatch running on his Linux desktop:

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Saturday, December 10, 2016

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc1 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc1 is now available for Linux and Mac

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 2.0. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 2.0 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:
  • Bug fix update of the Mono engine.
  • Support for IDN name resolution.
  • Many more Shader Model 5 operations.
  • Still more fixes in the regression tests.
  • Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.


Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc1 (total 25):

  13319  In dlls/user32/edit.c EDIT_EM_ReplaceSel Clobbers Important Var When Buffer Overflows
  17196  Text Editor Cursor can be scrolled outside editor
  24699  Explorer++ 1.2: crash when closing a tab
  29878  Rayman 3 Demo: beeping sound
  30385  Multiple applications need support for shell32.SHGetKnownFolderPath KF_FLAG_DEFAULT_PATH option (Windows Live Essentials 2011 web installer, MediaMonkey 4.1.x in Vista+ mode)
  32171  Netflix doesn't work in 64-bit WINEPREFIX
  32795  Easy Video Cutter 2.3 crashes on video loading
  33021  TurboTax 2012 wants ntdll.dll.EtwEventRegister (win7 mode)
  37138  Excel 2007 under wine crashes opening this file
  39886  Fallout 4 - GFSDK_GodraysLib.x64.dll failed to initialize
  39887  Fallout 4 - Fallout4Launcher.exe crashes
  40247  Wine returns the loopback IP as first item in GetIpAddrTable causing some licensed programs to fail due to invalid MAC address
  40359  Galactic Civilization III fails to start
  40804  Touhou 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 have severe fps drop.
  41055  "Texture ... does not have a drawable" on i915 with D3D8
  41059  Necropolis requires OMSetDepthStencilState Two-sided stencil testing when using DirectX 11
  41402  DDBST unusable due to "fixme:systray:wine_notify_icon unhandled tray message: 4"
  41454  Outlast 2 Demo requires R32G32_UINT and R32_UINT formats
  41493  Sniper Elite V2 stuck at "Completing Installation 1%"
  41508  Menu infinitely loops, the application hangs.
  41696  Multiple apps (Trials Fusion Demo, Outlast 2 Demo) require DXGI_FORMAT_R32G8X24_TYPELESS support
  41870  RPG Tkool (RPG Maker) 2k/2k3: winegstreamer doesn't play already played MP3 files
  41898  ToCA Race Driver 3 needs ntoskrnl.exe.RtlCopyMemory
  41924  Shadow Warrior 2 crashes on startup
  41950  ALDI Bestellsoftware 5.2.1.2111: crashes when trying to change the font

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Saturday, November 26, 2016

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.24 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.24 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Support for unordered access views in Direct3D.
  • Many fixes in the regression tests.
  • Some more improvements in HID support.
  • Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.


 Bugs fixed in 1.9.24 (total 28):

  33636  wine cmd: invalid behaviour of '&' operator
  35343  dialog windows are too large
  35658  Anthem Room Correction 2 v1.0.1 reports 'Unknown COM error 0x80004001' (needs IAudioEndpointVolume::GetVolumeRange method implementation)
  36115  cabinet/fdi tests show some valgrind warnings
  38768  Stronghold 2 hangs when started.
  39724  Need For Speed Underground 2 crashes after several minutes of playing
  39734  ProtectDisc Driver 11: acedrv11.sys crashes
  40366  Avatarika installer fails
  40595  gdiplus:metafile test regression (test_frameunit)
  40596  gdiplus:metafile test regression (test_nullframerect)
  40695  Crash in Fallout New Vegas
  40791  N-Ball editor shows only a blackscreen
  40996  Deus Ex:Human Revolution fails to start when using DX11 renderer
  41021  Zombie Army trilogy needs msvcr100.dll._fpieee_flt
  41087  UE4 games (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux, The Solus Project) crash while loading with "D3D11Query.cpp:139 # with error E_INVALIDARG"
  41090  Multiple games (Starcraft 2, UE4 games) require vcruntime140.dll.__intrinsic_setjmp
  41290  DirectShow applications: MP3 playback is broken if winegstreamer is disabled
  41308  iconfig.exe needs msvcr120.??0_Condition_variable@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ
  41451  Motocross madness: missing names of players
  41602  Videos do not play in Age of Empires
  41640  add rx 480 into directx.c
  41671  GOG Galaxy requires unimplemented function vcruntime140.dll.__std_terminate
  41683  Gauntlet start background is corrupted.
  41695  LeagueClient.exe Call to unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll.nearbyint
  41705  Build fails in dpnet: redefinition of typedef 'SOCKADDR'
  41719  crypt32:store test regression in testRegStoreSavedCerts()
  41721  hidtest.exe crashes on unimplemented function hid.dll.HidP_GetSpecificButtonCaps
  41736  build error: configure detects udev only partly

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Saturday, November 12, 2016

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.23 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.23 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • HID bus support for macOS.
  • Color font support in Direct2D.
  • More color formats in Direct3D.
  • Uninstallation fixes in MSI.
  • Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.



Bugs fixed in 1.9.23 (total 32):

  11963  Myst V: End of Ages does not run
  17323  Superbase Dialogs are too small
  23255  Temper setup dialog button is inappropriately sized
  23838  iMule Crashes Upon Indexing Shared Files (dogfood)
  24995  Gpstrack Segfaults while copying text from right-click popup menu
  28132  MDDClone starts without audio unless 'Sound' tab is activated in the launcher
  28226  Sonic heroes 1.0 Crash after running.
  30187  Cisco IP Communicator 7.0.4.0 installation fails (Cisco 'certmgr.exe' tool fails to install certificate to the system-wide trusted certificate store)
  30673  Smart Cutter 1.9.4 crashes when the button OPEN is pressed
  32752  Xanadu NEXT 3D does not show properly
  33524  Cannot select/copy text in PDF files created in Microsoft Office 2007 & 2010
  35397  Endless Steam Client Update even after fresh install (BSD 'read_directory_getdirentries' implementation broken)
  35733  Startopia: Models render with weird and completely unexpected offsets
  36101  Wow Hangs at login screen when coming from battle.net launcher (only with gxapi Opengl)
  36898  Unturned crashes
  38198  Colin McRae Rally 2005 crashes at start
  38489  debug_d3dusage Unrecognized usage flag(s) 0x10000000
  38972  Titan Souls Demo (Steam) crashes on unimplemented function OpenAL32.dll.alGenFilters
  39396  "Legend of Grimrock 2" editor flickers
  40110  d3d10core:device and d3d11:d3d11 regression
  40314  www.cryptopro.ru installer needs unimplemented function CRYPT32.dll.CertRegisterSystemStore
  40448  Final Fantasy XI: Missing character models, potential black screen and crashes
  40925  UE4 games (Flame in the Flood, Into the Stars, Ethan Carter Redux) crash when attempting to render to a 3D texture
  41071  Multiple applications needs api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll._wsopen_dispatch (PCSX2 1.4.0, StarCraft II 3.6.0)
  41428  The Forest: Terminal gets spammed with errors if Steam is running
  41589  Codename Panzers: Phase Two (GOG.com) needs api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll._sopen_dispatch
  41596  Insane 2 crashes in the menu
  41638  Wordpad, errors when compiling its resources on Windows
  41642  S3CC921 programmer app needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeSetTimerEx
  41651  WScript object name on wine is case sensitive which should not be the case (vbscript)
  41655  Error on exiting package created with pyinstaller, needs msvcr100.dll._wfindnext32
  41688  Sonic Utopia crashes at launch

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Friday, May 27, 2016

CodeWeavers CrossOver 15.1.0 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04

A Quick overview of getting CodeWeavers CrossOver 15.1.0 installed on Ubuntu Linux 16.04

Ubuntu's latest release, Xenial Xerus, has been out since April 21.

The latest long term stable release has been working for our testing purposes since the day it dropped but we had to get CrossOver 15.1.0 installed first. In this release, the Ubuntu Software Center is gone. It has been replaced by GNOME Software.

While this will be a positive change for the distribution, it seems Ubuntu Software has a few hiccups. While the Ubuntu Desktop Team works to resolve these problems, we would like to make sure our customers can install CrossOver.


Please download the trial version of CrossOver before starting these steps. Or, if you already have an account, please login and download CrossOver.

The easiest way to get CrossOver installed with Ubuntu 16.04 is a little terminal dancing. If you're new to Linux or Ubuntu, that is as easy as holding down the CTRL, ALT, and T keys at once to call a terminal window.

Terminal Window Ubuntu 16.04

First, bring your system up to date:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Next, we like to use GDebi Package Installer to install CrossOver. Get it by typing in terminal:

sudo apt-get install gdebi

Ubuntu 16.04 is now ready to install CrossOver. In terminal, give the command:

sudo gdebi ~/Downloads/crossover_15.1.0-1.deb

Now, run CrossOver for the first time:

/opt/cxoffice/bin/crossover

On first run, CrossOver will check to see if every library it needed was installed. If not, it will again attempt to install the libraries it needs. To do this, it will open a new terminal window and prompt for administrative credentials. Please provide these credentials so CrossOver can complete the set-up process.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Microsoft Office 2013 and World of Tanks Support to Arrive in Wine and CrossOver

CodeWeavers, the company behind projects like CrossOver and Wine, has announced that it's making great progress with Microsoft Office 2013 and World of Tanks, among other things.

Wine is a powerful tool, but developers need to constantly work on it, as Windows apps and environment are always changing and evolving. Something that runs today in Wine or CrossOver might now work tomorrow. Another difficult task is to make certain apps run in the first place, like Microsoft Office 2013, for instance. If you ever install Microsoft Office 2013 in Windows, you'll notice that it comes with a myriad of DLL and various other important dependencies, so you can always imagine what a difficult task it is to make it work in Linux.

Another point of interest is World of Tanks, which happens to be one of the most played MMO titles right now. The fact that Linux users have a hard time playing it is not a good thing, and CodeWeavers knows this all too well. They are working right now to correct that problem, and they've already made some progress in this regard, especially for the latest World of Tanks 9.9 update, which seems to create some issues.

CodeWeavers is not sitting idle


The developers from CodeWeavers are planning to make some improvements in the upcoming CrossOver and Wine versions, and that includes all the fixes mentioned above.

"With World of Tanks we began by triaging a crash that started with the 9.9 update. We fixed the issue quickly and sent a new build to Wargaming. We followed this with a fix for a severe drop in frame-rates with the 9.9 update. A fix for the frame rate issue and a mouse offset issue is on its way to Wargaming now. For CrossOver 14, we tested fixes with Microsoft Office 2010's behavior on dual screen systems. This includes full-screen maximize/minimize the behavior of primary and secondary screens on Gnome Classic and Gnome Shell with Metacity and Debian 7," wrote Caron Wills from CodeWeavers.

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Friday, November 13, 2015

Microsoft Office 2013 on Linux with CodeWeavers CrossOver

Microsoft Office 2013 (code named Office 15) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016. It includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or a later version of either. A version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices. Mainstream support ends on April 10, 2018. Extended support ends on April 11, 2023.

Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11, 2012, when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing. Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on January 29, 2013. This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including OneDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, Yammer and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.

Microsoft Office 2013 comes in twelve different editions, including three editions for retail outlets, two editions for volume licensing channel, five subscription-based editions available through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.

In the upcoming release of CodeWeavers CrossOver Linux 15 we will see many new and exciting changes over the current CrossOver 14 edition that's available now. Don't get me wrong CrossOver 14 is a nice release and runs many productivity applications and games that we care about today.

CrossOver Linux 15 is a whole new ball game, it will come with Microsoft Office 2013 functionality, the beginnings of DirectX 10 and 11 support, a newly refreshed and modern Graphical User Interface (GUI) and incorporate just over a full years worth of Wine from WineHQ changes into the release. And most likely will ship with the upcoming Wine 1.8 stable release or a variant of that release.

Not only will we get a newly updated Graphical User Interface (GUI) we will also get a totally new version of Wine with many DirectX 10 and 11 enhancements. So the day of playing DirectX 10 and 11 games on Linux is soon approaching. I can only imagine the effects on work productivity as we will be like children in a candy store once again.

So on to the main article, this isn't a how-to or user guide but simply a news post. CrossOver 15 is still under extremely heavy development and testing. This news post is to inform everyone of a small sample of whats soon coming our way.

Specs :

Distro : Ubuntu Linux 14.04.3 LTS
CrossOver Release : 15.0 pre release build
Microsoft Office : Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013

You can go to MSDN and download Microsoft Office Professional Plus and get a free 60 day trial here. After you have registered and got the download it's time to run the install with CrossOver Linux 15 on your Linux Computer. Keep in mind this will install and run on any of the popular modern Linux distributions, Ubuntu is in no way a requirement.

CodeWeavers CrossOver 15 Software Installer


CodeWeavers CrossOver 15 Software Installer Office 2013


Starting the Office 2013 install on Linux


Microsoft Office Professional Plus License Agreement

Choose your Office 2013 installation


Office 2013 install has finished


Now the real fun begins, time to run Microsoft word 2013 for the first time on Linux.


Microsoft Word 2013 is now running on Linux, Thank You CodeWeavers!


PowerPoint 2013 running on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Hello from PowerPoint 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Microsoft Excel 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Microsoft Outlook 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Microsoft Publisher 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Wow, was that fun or what? and this is just a small sample of what's to come in the upcoming CrossOver Linux 15 release. If you want to help support future Wine development and CodeWeavers just go over to CodeWeavers online store and pick up your copy of CrossOver for Mac or Linux. When you use promo code ( TOM23 ) you will receive a instant 20% discount and help support future development. I know you want to play some DirectX 10 and 11 games on your Linux or Mac computer.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

CodeWeavers is now on VOAT

I just setup a voat subverse for CodeWeavers if you want to come join the conversation and see how a proper Reddit should be managed VOAT is the place to be.

CodeWeavers sells a proprietary version of Wine called CrossOver for running Windows applications and games on Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

CODEWEAVERS LAUNCHES CROSSOVER 12.5 FOR LINUX AND MAC

Update includes Wine 1.6, new Linux UI, better MS Outlook support, and full support for Chinese
 
SAINT PAUL, Minn (August 13, 2013) — CodeWeavers, Inc., developer of CrossOver software which enables Mac and Linux users to run Windows software on their computers without the need of a Microsoft license, announced today the release of its new software, CrossOver 12.5.

Although a point release, CrossOver 12.5.0 is a major step forward from previous versions of CrossOver. The new version incorporates the latest version of Wine - the Windows compatibility technology which underlies CrossOver. Wine 1.6 brings thousands of improvements to application compatibility.
On Linux, CrossOver has a new user interface. A list of launchers for all installed Windows applications is present in CrossOver's main application window, which improves usability with modern Linux desktop environments.

We have spent substantial time improving our support for Microsoft Outlook. Outlook users who run on laptops may notice that their Outlook connections remain active when their laptops change networks or awake from sleep. CrossOver 12.5.0 also includes improved support for Quicken, Internet Explorer 7, and improved compatibility with the Microsoft Office suite.\

Finally, CrossOver 12.5.0 has improved Chinese language support, and runs more popular Chinese applications than ever before. We have fixed crashes in the Chinese versions of Microsoft Office 2010; we have added Chinese language titles to our application database, and CrossOver is fully translated into Chinese. CodeWeavers has now begun selling CrossOver directly in China.
CrossOver is immediately available at www.CodeWeavers.com

Change Log For CrossOver

12.5.0 CrossOver - August 13, 2013
  • Mac OS X:
    • CrossOver's "Mac Driver" is now on by default. Because of this, CrossOver now supports better desktop integration on OS X, including:
      • Drag and Drop.
      • System Tray Icons in the Mac Menu Bar.
      • Shaped windows and transparency.
      • Better mouse handling for many games.
      • Support for command-tab switching in full-screen mode.
      • Better integration with the OS X Dock, and features such as Expose and Spaces.
      • Better international keyboard support.
      • Improved clipboard (cut and paste) support.
      • Support for mice with more than three buttons.
      • Fixes for many window ordering problems.
      • Force-feedback joysticks are supported.
      • Improved input method support for non-Latin characters.
  • Linux:
    • The GUI on Linux has changed substantially. In particular, it now includes a menu of launchers for all installed Windows applications, which can be customized by the user.
  • Application Support:
    • Microsoft Outlook:
      • Microsoft Outlook will now maintain its connection when the computer sleeps or the network configuration changes.
      • Improved auto-discovery for Exchange account setup.
      • Outlook will no longer crash if the Exchange server is unavailable.
      • Fixed a crash when editing contacts.
      • Right-click to format will now work.
      • Improved NTLM authentication - you can now change your password if you have 'smbpasswd' installed.
      • Improved SharePoint list display in profile.
      • Characters can now be inserted from the character palette.
      • Fixed printing of calendar items.
      • Attachment preview will now work.
      • Outlook Today can now be customized.
      • Phone numbers now accept a '+' character for international notation.
    • Microsoft Excel:
      • Fixed a crash when copying a worksheet.
      • Improved macro support.
      • Fixed a problem opening read-only files.
      • Fixed garbage when opening xlsx documents.
    • Quicken:
      • Fixed display of help topics in Quicken 2012.
      • Fixed a bug in the 'Change Assumptions' function of Quicken 2013.
    • Internet Explorer 7:
      • More websites will now work.
      • Fixed a bug which sometimes caused failure during installation.
      • Fixed a crash in the print dialog.
    • World of Tanks:
      • Fixed a crash connecting to the server on certain Macs.
      • Fixed a crash when zooming in on targets.
    • Microsoft Office: Fixed problems in which drop-down menus could not be dismissed.
    • Microsoft Office 2010 Simplified Chinese Edition will now install.
    • Fixed a bug which caused Microsoft Office 2007 to fail to install on some machines.
    • Fixed an installation conflict between .Net 4.0 and DirectX 9.
    • Fixed an installation problem with Microsoft Money 2001.
    • Fixed an issue where Microsoft Visio 2010 would not open .vxd files.
    • Fixed installation problems with .Net 3.5.
    • Fixed graphical glitches in Wizard101.
    • Fixed problems with the patcher in Pirate101.
    • Fixed a crash on login in StarCraft II.
    • Fixed crashes on install of Rift's Storm Legion expansion.
    • Fixed Rift graphics bugs on NVIDIA hardware.
    • Fixed various errors in ChemSketch 12.
    • Fixed a crash in Baseball Mogul 2013 and 2014.
  • Other Improvements:
    • CrossOver 12.5.0 is based on the new stable Wine 1.6 release. This includes innumerable fixes for various Windows applications.
    • CrossOver can be configured for compatibility with Windows 7.
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

WineBottler 1.5.30 for Mac OSX was released today

WineBottler 1.5.30 for Mac OSX users was released today, this release comes with Wine 1.5.30 and the updated custom WineBottler starter application. WineBottler has been under constant development for the past year and with this release Mac users can finally benefit from the many feature enhancements and bug fixes that's included in this most recent release.

About WineBottler :

Turn Windows-based programs into OS X apps – NOT. ;)

WineBottler packages Windows-based programs snugly into OS X app-bundles. Then it uses the great OpenSource tool Wine to run the binaries on your Mac – no need to install emulators or other operating systems.

WineBottler comes with preconfigured installations

Select from a wide range of software like browsers, mediaplayers, IDEs or business software. They are all preconfigured to be installed by a single click: Hit "Install" and WineBottler will leave you with a neat app on your desktop. It will take care of downloading and configuering everything for you.

WineBottler can install your exe into an OS X .app

Double-Click your exe or msi and convert it into an app with WineBottler. You can run the generated app like every other program on you Mac. For advanced users, WineBottler gives you a selection of options: install special dependencies and even turn your exe into a selfcontained app - that is an app, that contains everything to run it... even on other Macs. Porting to OS X never was easyer ;).

... or just run that exe

You don't care about generating an app and just want to run it? Double-click the exe and choose "Run directly" and Wine will run it in a generic environment.



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Sunday, December 16, 2012

CodeWeavers Launches CrossOver 12 For Linux And MAC

CODEWEAVERS LAUNCHES CROSSOVER 12
Update includes experimental Mac graphics driver
Internal feud leads to what Marketing Department calls the most boring name ever for a software feature. Marketing weeping tears of bitterness.

 
SAINT PAUL, Minn (December 12, 2012) — CodeWeavers, Inc., developer of CrossOver software which enables Mac and Linux users to run Windows software on their computers without the need of a Microsoft license, announced today the release of its new software, CrossOver 12.
CodeWeavers, ever aggressive on the software development front, has also included an experimental Mac graphics driver in CrossOver 12. Prosaically named The Mac Driver by the product’s development team after triumphing over Marketing in closely-watched contest of wills, the new driver will lead to smoother, faster, more native Mac performance as it’s perfected.
“Like our previous versions, CrossOver 12 gives everyone the most-affordable solution for accessing to thousands of Windows applications on Mac and Linux, because with our product, you don’t need a Windows license,” said CEO Jeremy White. “Version 12 continues our steady progress in terms of more Windows applications just working under CrossOver. If you haven’t tried CrossOver recently with your favorite Windows application, it’s worth taking the 5 minutes to give it another look.”
“But what’s even cooler,” White continued “is what our new “The Mac Driver” is going to do for our Mac porting customers. Now that we have The Mac Driver, we’ll be able to move Windows applications over to the Mac platform even more rapidly. It will help us deliver a final ported application that looks, smells, and feels more like a native Mac application than ever before.”
“It is actually a really cool feature,” confirmed Jon Parshall, CodeWeavers’ COO and head of Marketing, “But this just goes to show what happens when you let software developers name something. Next thing you know, they’ll want to rename CrossOver ‘That MacWindows Compatibility Program’ for our next release. If you’ll pardon me, I think I need a drink.”

About “The Mac Driver”
The Mac Driver supplants CrossOver’s current X11 windows driver technology. This new driver format will be an optional feature in CrossOver 12, allowing users to enable/disable it at need for specific applications. It will also allow CodeWeavers to gather useful feedback from its distributed cadre of testers in order to hone its features for future releases.
CrossOver 12 is immediately available at www.CodeWeavers.com

Wondering if your favorite Windows software title will run under CrossOver?

About CodeWeavers
Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers focuses on the development of Wine –the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company’s goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held. For more information about CodeWeavers, log on to www.codeweavers.com.

Change Log For CrossOver 12

12.0.0 CrossOver - December 12, 2012
  • Mac OS X:
    • CrossOver now incorporates our experimental Mac Driver. With the Mac Driver, Windows programs running under CrossOver no longer have to use the X Window System to interact with the screen and keyboard. This feature is currently experimental but will become the way all CrossOver applications work on OS X in the future.
    • CrossOver has improved font handling for fonts used by certain applications, such as National Mah Jongg League Online.
  • Linux:
    • CrossOver Linux now installs a single desktop menu item rather than a multitude of desktop menus. This approach works better with desktop systems such as GNOME 3 and Unity, which usually don't have a hierarchical desktop menu structure.
    • CrossOver now has much better support for window transparency (layered windows) when a compositing window manager is available. (When the Mac Driver is complete, this feature will be available on OS X as well). Many transparent windows will now work that did not before.
      Improvements in this area include:
      • Microsoft Office applications in the Office 2003 and Office 2007 suites will now behave properly when working with embedded pictures or graphics. Previously, rotating or resizing embedded graphics caused the screen to go temporarily black;
      • Game launchers (such as that for Guild Wars 2, for example) which use color-keying to create transparent window areas will display properly rather than being drawn with black borders;
      • ...and many more.
    • We have resolved some issues which caused printers not to appear.
  • Application Support:
    • CrossOver now supports World of Tanks.
    • CrossOver now supports Quicken 2013.
    • CrossOver now supports installation of .Net 4.0.
    • CrossOver Linux now supports Guild Wars 2. Guild Wars 2 will run for many people on CrossOver Mac, but many users will encounter persistent graphics problems. Previously, CodeWeavers had released a specially-built version of CrossOver dedicated to running Guild Wars 2. That is no longer necessary.
    • Improvements to Microsoft Office:
      • Fixed a crash displaying certain email messages in Outlook 2010.
      • Outlook 2010 will now save passwords.
      • Improved Gmail and other IMAP connections with Outlook 2007.
      • Fixed auto-discovery during account configuration for Outlook 2007.
      • PowerPoint 2010 now displays equations in slide shows.
      • PowerPoint 2010 no longer displays blank slides.
      • Fixed bugs in Word 2010 which caused the equation editor to be missing structures and formulas.
      • Fixed a bug in Word 2010 related to footnote style choices.
      • Project 2007 and 2010 can now edit dates for recurring tasks.
      • Fixed a crash in Project 2010 when filtering by resource name.
      • Visio 2002 can now search for new shapes.
      • Visio 2010 now displays properly when multiple shapes are open.
    • Star Trek Online is now faster during game updates.
    • Quicken 2009 no longer has garbled text on its buttons.
    • An issue with installation of .Net 3.5 SP1 was resolved.
    • World of Warcraft has had fixes related to patching and installation.
  • CrossOver and Wine:
    • CrossOver is now based on Wine 1.5.15.
    • CrossOver's built-in web-browser will offer to download and install ActiveX controls.
    • CrossOver now comes bundled with the Wine-Mono package, an alternative implementation of the .Net API.
    • CrossOver now implements Raw Input, the set of APIs used for mouse input by games like Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks, and others.
    • Support for printing on a variety of paper sizes has been improved.
    • DirectSound has a new resampler, for higher quality audio.
    • CrossOver now has sub-pixel font anti-aliasing.

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