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Friday, March 29, 2019

Wine development release 4.5 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

Wine development release 4.5 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:
  • Support for Vulkan 1.1.
  • Better support for kernel objects in device drivers.
  • Still more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
  • Support for SVG elements in MSHTML.
  • Fixes for case conversion troubles in Turkish locale.
  • 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 4.5 (total 30):

  19098  Regedit randomly crashes when deleting registry keys
  23455  FileAlyzer 1.6.0.4, Affinity-installer-1.6.5.123 can't load PE images (needs imagehlp.ImageLoad and imagehlp.ImageUnload implementation)
  26445  URLDownloadToFileW does not support FTP URLs
  38087  Settlers III: mouse not working on start screen and menu (after fixing raw input bug 33479)
  38801  Settlers Heritage of Kings crashes when loading a map
  41591  Solidworks 2016 installer needs ADVAPI32.dll.RegLoadAppKeyW
  45322  League Of Legends installer on tr_TR.UTF-8: unknown color "systemhighlight"
  45429  Inno Setup v5.x based game-installers using 'wintb' plugin fail with: 'Runtime error 229 at
' (Win7+ ITaskbarList3 ThumbBar/Thumbnail semi-stubs needed)
  45497  Biamp Systems Nexia v3.3: Button labels missing in DSP controls
  45998  64-bit FACEIT Anti-cheat client claims "Your system is out of date, you are missing important Windows updates!" (needs 'wintrust.CryptCATAdminAcquireContext2' stub)
  46115  Cursor in unity games moving down and to the right one pixel on any mouse interaction
  46222  Star Citizen hang on splash screen
  46643  Belarc Advisor Computer Inventory 9.0 crashes on unimplemented function advapi32.dll.AuditQuerySystemPolicy with WinVer >= Windows Vista
  46807  The Sims hangs when opening menus
  46812  PS4 Remote Play installer 2.8.x fails, claims 'You need the Media Feature Pack' (MsiGetDatabaseState is called from a custom action)
  46830  Gaea 1.0.x installer stops: err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"WixSchedInternetShortcuts" returned 1603 (MsiViewGetErrorA/W() needs to be RPC-compatible)
  46833  Multiple application installers fail with err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"" returned 1603 (iTunes 12.9.3.3, Dameware Mini Remote Control 10.x)
  46845  Freelancer: character glitches in cutscenes after loading a saved game
  46846  msi x64 installer does not display splash and other texts like a license agreement
  46848  PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 Web installer crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll.wctrans
  46851  Can't input Japanese text after updating to 4.4.
  46881  Power World Simulator installer needs unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiSourceListForceResolutionW
  46885  Multiple applications fail to install with wine-4.4-114-g15f852015a+, reporting err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"BindImage" returned 1615  (MS Office 2007, AstroToaster 2.x. MS .NET Framework 4.x)
  46892  redefinition of typedef ‘UUID’
  46894  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer (.NET 4.0) fails in CoreLib::GetPhysicalMemoryAmountWmi() (missing 'DeviceLocator' property of 'Win32_PhysicalMemory' WMI class)
  46895  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer (.NET 4.0) fails due to missing 'OperatingSystemSKU' property of 'Win32_OperatingSystem' WMI class
  46906  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: SeCon tool 'SeCon_Win32.exe' crashes due to hnetcfg 'INetFwRules::get__NewEnum' not initializing out parameter
  46907  msi crashes in RemoveFiles action for a broken msi
  46908  Support msvcp mtx_init 'mtx_try' flag (0x2) to create a mutex object that supports test and return
  46909  Missing (black) textures in Black & White

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Lutris 0.5.1.2 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.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

 Fix issue with custom Proton detection preventing Wine games from running

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Monday, March 25, 2019

Lutris 0.5.1.1 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.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Fixed a crash when trying to open webpages on system without GVFS
    installed
  • Fixed GOG login dialog being displayed multiple times during the install
  • Add mesa-utils as dependency for glxinfo
  • Add gvfs-backends as dependency to fix the open_uri issue
  • Add detection of custom proton builds in compatibilitytools.d folder, as
    documented here: https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton#install-proton-locally
    (by @GloriousEggroll)

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Saturday, March 23, 2019

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.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

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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Friday, March 15, 2019

Wine development release 4.4 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

Wine development release 4.4 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:
  • New MSIDB tool for manipulating MSI databases.
  • Support for custom draw buttons in common controls.
  • Many more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
  • 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 4.4 (total 50):

  10407  StarForce v3 kernel driver service 'sfhlp02' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoCreateSynchronizationEvent
  10531  Windows Calculator: Color in buttons missing
  13087  Hard Truck Apocalypse fails to load keyboard layout
  17005  Chicken Tournament: Rendering issues
  23175  Zak McKracken - Between Time and Space fails to play back intro video (ICM_DECOMPRESS_GET_FORMAT problems with Xvid)
  25180  Clonk Endeavour's intro video is not rendered correctly (iccvid does not support non-multiple of 4 video width)
  28240  Mipony 1.5.x (.NET 2.0 app): Embedded web browser shown in too small window
  28847  LabChart Reader 7.x crashes due to missing wmvcore 'IWMProfileManager2', CLSID '{7a924e51-73c1-494d-8019-23d37ed9b89a}'
  30548  MediaOne Plus 2.0 PhotoImpact (Ulead PhotoImpact X3) installer runs "regedit" with unsupported "/c" switch
  33506  Microsoft Expression Design 4 (Free Version) crashes when quickly populating main menu items (dropdown sub-menu drawing)
  35251  Skype 4 MSI installer fails to start Skype.exe when finishing installation in Vista mode (TaskService_Connect is a stub)
  35841  R.U.S.E. Demo need wmvcore.dll.WMCreateSyncReader implementation
  35986  Multiple DRM-enabled apps and games crash when being relay traced (game overlay renderer enabled Steam games)
  37325  Rhapsody 4.0 auto setup for DRM crashes on unimplemented function wmvcore.dll.WMCreateBackupRestorerPrivate
  37327  Rhapsody 4.0 crashes on unimplemented function 'wmvcore.dll.WMCreateSyncReaderPriv' when playing a track
  37585  64-bit Chromium browser engine with native API sandboxing/hooking scheme fails if 64-bit ntdll.dll.so is not mapped at desired fixed address (Google Chrome 38+ crashes with WinVer <= Vista)
  37871  GOG.com downloader (.NET 3.5 app) wants wininet.GetUrlCacheConfigInfoA/W implementation
  37972  Multiple application installers fail due to VBScript parser failure in 'Get' method calls (UC Receptionist Console 14 SP6, PostgreSQL 9.3, Symantec VIP Access)
  38791  In server/queue.c, clipping cursor to empty rectangle is off by one pixel (affects "The Long Dark")
  38943  Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War GOTY (Steam) crashes while loading to the menu with Wine-Mono 4.7.5 or earlier
  39606  Infinite loop in StackWalk64
  41226  Sound effects play at incorrect volume in Halo PC and Halo Custom Edition
  42939  NOX App Player v3.8.x (Android Emulator) fails in post-installation step (VirtualBox COM Server raises assert: failed to set self TLS. lasterr=87 thread 'CGMgr')
  42982  Bayonetta can't save settings
  43071  Bayonetta can't read its "system_data" config file
  43851  Monkey Island Special Edition Collection: Installer crashes on the first run
  44423  Office 2007/2010 32bit - links not working
  44793  Epic Games Launcher 7.x crashes on startup (relies on native Windows behaviour: 'shcore.dll' loaded by 'shlwapi.dll')
  44800  FL Studio: Attempting to minimize FL Studio shows a small label instead
  45577  Skyrim tries to install MS VC Redist Package each launch
  45925  WPF application (.NET 4.5) printing fail: crash in unimplemented function prntvpt.dll.PTOpenProviderEx
  45927  Tom Clancy's TheDivision.exe terminates itself a few seconds after launch
  46305  Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas all crash upon clicking 'Play'
  46371  FFXI + Ashita random crash ingame
  46571  FPS Monitor doesn't work (needs gdi32.D3DKMTCloseAdapter stub)
  46579  F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin screen is completely light grey while playing intro movie
  46680  redefinition of typedef ‘fnprintf’
  46706  Eventide H9 Control crashes on unimplemented function bthprops.cpl.BluetoothFindDeviceClose
  46712  Atelier Firis config tool crashes with "Unhandled page fault on execute access"
  46721  Two quotes together (in outer quotes) not parsed correctly in argv
  46731  64-bit dotnet20 installer freezes in 4.2
  46754  Multiple application installers fail in VBscripts due to IWshEnvironment::Item property returning BSTR with embedded null terminator (PostgreSQL 9.3)
  46761  BigNox VM VirtualBox Support Driver 'YSDrv.sys' (part of NoxPlayer 6.x) crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.MmBuildMdlForNonPagedPool
  46762  BigNox VM VirtualBox Support Driver 'YSDrv.sys' (part of NoxPlayer 6.x) crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ExSetTimerResolution
  46772  Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 6.0 installer fails with VBScript parser error: parser_lex '_' not followed by newline
  46783  Metro Exodus crash on start [DXGI]
  46792  Europa Universalis III crashes after start
  46798  Multiple Microsoft applications need support for Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) 'AMSI.dll'
  46811  Inquisitor: black screen after start in fullscreen mode
  46835  Wine fails to compile with vkd3d 1.0

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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Unofficial Wineskin Winery-1.8.3

Winery now correctly handles "-" in Engine names.
This fixes downloading the following engines;

  • WS9Wine64Bit4.3-2
  • WS9Wine4.3-2
  • WS9WineStaging64Bit3.13-2
  • WS9WineStaging3.13-2
  • WS9WineStaging64Bit2.10-3
  • WS9WineStaging2.10-3
  • WS9WineStaging64Bit2.4-3
  • WS9WineStaging2.4-3
  • WS9Wine64Bit2.4-3
  • WS9Wine2.4-3

The above now get downloaded correctly, where as before the "-" would be ignored.

Link to source code

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Sunday, March 10, 2019

WineTricks 20190310 has been released

Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.

It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also allows the installation of missing DLLs and tweaking of various Wine settings.

This version can be downloaded here.

 



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Friday, March 1, 2019

Wine development release 4.3 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

Wine development release 4.3 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:
  • Re-implementation of XAudio2 using the FAudio library.
  • Mono engine updated to the latest upstream.
  • More modern handling of iconic windows.
  • Improved handling of kernel objects.
  • 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 4.3 (total 45):

   1719  MDI child window minimize problem in Delphi VCL applications
   7287  Redundant "tabs" appear with tabbed MDI (test with LTSpice)
   8226  DlgDirListComboBox does not fail properly on bad path spec argument
  15703  LEGO Star Wars controller options
  18496  BREW simulator always shows a black display
  19777  Ad Astra game runs very slow
  21023  SetupDiOpenDevRegKey() returns wrong HKEY
  26653  Multiple VB6 applications need oleaut32 VarRound to support VT_DECIMAL
  31954  Second Sight hangs with a black screen after the intro videos
  32374  List box with LBS_NODATA set, has very low performance, depending on items count.
  35516  Microworlds EX hangs when clicking toolbar button
  37705  Heroes of Might and Magic VI Shades of Darkness Textures Fail to Display in Most Campaign Maps
  38488  Wrong traces in functions *_invalidate_location
  39932  bat-script with quotes cann't be called using CreateProcess
  41670  BattlEye launcher stuck at 'Starting BattlEye Service...' (PUBG, Planetside2, H1Z1: King of the Kill, Tibia 11)
  43395  Wine intermittently crashes after any program terminates
  43659  Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis crashes inside winegstreamer (disabling winegstreamer is a workaround)
  44300  Windows Media Player 7.1 fails to play media due to unimplemented function wmvcore.dll.WMCheckURLExtension
  45149  Provide mscoree.dll.CorIsLatestSvc stub with diagnostic message to tell native MS .NET CLR bootstrapper must be used (dll override)
  45631  League of Legends client crashes when joining a lobby with other players
  45632  Garena client v2.0.x crashes on startup ('ntdll.NtQueryVirtualMemory' needs to validate 'MemoryInformationLength' before writing to buffer)
  45841  Battleye's BEDaisy.sys requires that PsThreadType and PsProcessType are defined
  46105  TopoEdit crashes with unimplemented function mf.dll.MFCreateSequencerSource
  46245  V-sync setting does not work (Direct3D 12)
  46318  vbscript doesn't parse if identifier is also keyword token
  46319  32-bit IL-only executable launched as 32-bit subprocess on Wine and 64-bit subprocess on Windows
  46442  FormatCurrency(9) returns .9.00 (period in front)
  46481  strftime has a buffer overflow
  46493  Functions ilogb* are not implemented
  46583  LINE latest version doesn't work
  46623  Game controller behaves incorrectly
  46638  dotnet40 no longer installs using winetricks
  46639  LoadLibraryShim fails in wow64
  46654  dotnet35sp1 fails to install with winetricks
  46678  Width of latin characters is wrong with some fonts.
  46681  TopoEdit crashes with unimplemented function mf.dll.MFCreateTopologyNode
  46691  comctl32/tests/propsheet.c shows uninitalized memory use
  46708  Photoline crashed right after start, no problem with wine 3.0.4
  46717  TopoEdit crashes with unimplemented function mf.dll.MFCreateTopoLoader
  46719  iTunes crashes during the installation
  46724  Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood crashes on startup when using FAudio
  46727  Alekhine's Gun crashes on startup when using FAudio
  46728  dotnet35sp1 fails to complete with install via winetricks
  46729  Wine directx not detecting Intel HD Graphics 620 (Rev 02) chipset
  46732  BleachBit-2.0 crashes at startup

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