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Monday, April 13, 2020

WineTricks 20200412 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, April 10, 2020

Wine development release 5.6 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 5.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Still more Media Foundation work.
  • Improvements to Active Directory LDAP support.
  • A few more modules converted to PE.
  • Improvements to gdb proxy mode.
  • 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 5.6 (total 38):

  19420  Passmark 7.0 2d benchmark tests fails without native gdiplus
  21466  Multiple applications need NtQueryVolumeInformationFile 'FileFsVolumeInformation' class support (AVG Free 8.x/9.x Antivirus Edition, MSYS2)
  24784  Explorer++ displays disabled toolbar icons incorrectly
  27324  Cossacks II (DotEmu version) refuses to start from its install directory (path too long?)
  30810  Keygener Assistant 2.x: main window has incorrect size and contents are all black
  31207  Monogram GraphStudio v0.3.x crashes when using Graph->Insert Filter
  33290  Fullscreen games cause panning configurations to be generated on some NVidia proprietary drivers
  34014  Star Wars KOTOR II: The Sith Lords: Movies/cutscenes do not play with opengl on
  37029  Evernote 5.5.x - unable to capture webcam note
  37043  Keyboard input broken in Roblox Player
  37051  Roblox Studio embedded webpage does not load consistently or properly using built-in winhttp
  38856  LEGO Lord of the Rings crashes randomly
  41610  ChurchBoard: Trying to create a window(about 3 minutes). And the error takes off.
  41740  Diablo 3's mouse sprite stops moving, but the mouse is still working.
  42072  Dead Space (Steam) crashes on save with "divide by zero" error
  42479  MYOB Accounting v18.5.x crashes on startup
  43704  Contacam crashes
  47083  MySQL 8.0.x community installer (.NET 4.5.x app) fails to configure mysql, needs support for WS_AF_INET6 in 'iphlpapi.GetExtendedTcpTable'
  47109  WineVulkan ICD isn't registered in wineprefixes
  47362  Media Feature Pack for W10N requires rtworkq.dll
  47794  Rockstar Games Launcher installer button images do not display
  47825  Webex Meetings crashes
  48611  Cairo Shell v0.3.x (.NET 4.7 app) crashes due to missing 'HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\WinLogon\\Shell' registry sub-key
  48623  Error authenticating to LDAP controller
  48729  Binary Domain has misplaced text in configuration tool with builtin d3dx9_43
  48766  Late Shift doesn't work properly
  48778  Star Wars: The Old Republic crashes shortly after intro screen
  48788  null pointer in wined3d_palette_set_entries with Diablo GOG
  48798  RegCloseKey: Uninitialized read from get_language_sort
  48806  Panzer Corps 2 needs msvcp140.dll.?_XLgamma@std@@YANN@Z
  48816  The explorer doesn't support '/cd' option
  48832  Magic The Gathering Online: client does not start due to long file names since 2020-03-25 update
  48838  Wine fails to build wldap32 if LDAP is not installed
  48844  Magical Scramble Demo 1.20P shows white boxes instead of pictures.
  48846  msvcr90/tests/msvcr90.c: error: variadic functions must use the base AAPCS variant
  48888  error: redefinition of typedef ‘_onexit_t’ [/dlls/d3dcompiler_33]
  48897  Building fails with '/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl'
  48902  Warframe launcher fails to replace updated Launcher.exe the first time (works when Retry option pressed, as Launcher.exe deleted first time)

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Monday, March 30, 2020

Lutris 0.5.5 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 :

  • Initial support for Humble Bundle
  • Add resolution switching support for Wayland (Mutter only)
  • Add option to enable ACO shader compiler on Mesa >= 19.3
  • DXVK is enabled by default
  • Add initial support for VKD3D
  • Migrate D9VK configs to use DXVK
  • Remove d3d10 and d3d10_1 from dlls handled by DXVK
  • Fix an API breakage occuring with a Gtk update
  • Add a System info tab in Preferences
  • Better handle authentication failure for GOG
  • Fix case issue with key lookup in Steam VDF files
  • Add Yuzu runner
  • Add bsnes-hd beta and smsplus libretro cores
  • Add sound device option for Mednafen
  • Remove bundled winetricks
  • Remove xboxdrv integration

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V1.8.4: Wineskin-Winery-1.8.4 .2

Wineskin.Winery.txz was updated and is required for Wineskin-2.9.0.7-rc2 due to internal changes that were required for Rosetta2 compatibility.

DXVK Support!!!!;

  • Only tested on a mid 2014 13in Macbook Pro and base mode M1 Mac Mini
  • 64Bit Engine (WS10 or later Engines will suffice)
  • macOS 10.13 or greater (might work below but I haven't tested)
  • winetricks menu only shows compatible DXVK verbs

Apple Silicon Support;

This will now function under Rosetta2 use WineCX19 or greater, direct draw & Direct3D won't function so things like cnc-ddraw & DxWnd can be used to workaround this limitation.

Please Note;

The previous master wrapper Wineskin-2.9.0.7-rc1 won't be able to update to this master wrapper version as the structure has changed, while it's technically possible to update a current wrapper to the rc2 I won't provide any support for this so please create the wrapper over and manually move over the wineprefix files currently located with the wrappers /Contents/Resources directory into the newly created wrapper.
The Wineprefix location will also be moved in for rc3

Link to source code

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Wine development release 5.5 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 5.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Builtin libraries use the new UCRTBase C runtime.
  • Compatibility mode used when reporting Windows version.
  • Better support for debug information in PE files.
  • Support for linguistic case mappings.
  • More attributes supported in WebServices.
  • 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 5.5 (total 32):

   8439  Multiple Microsoft product installers fail due missing shell app path expansion (Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, Visual Foxpro 9.0)
  23523  Call of Juarez DX10 Benchmark does not start
  31890  Multiple applications need IAudioEndpointVolume::GetMasterVolumeLevelScalar method implementation (Cisco IP Communicator, Cairo Shell v0.3.x)
  32114  LTSpice: Dialog resizing glitches, slow panning when zooming, minor traces
  32222  LTspice: text fields issues
  32723  Death to Spies: Moment of Truth (Steam/non-Steam) crashes on startup (intro video needs WMV3 decoder support in an AVI container)
  35671  ERD Concepts 6 crashes with division by zero when editing relations
  39428  Failing owner SID test in advapi32:security
  39429  Failing ACE flag tests in advapi32:security
  40854  Adobe Flash Player 22-25 installer crashes (wtsapi32.WTSQuerySessionInformation needs to support WTSUserName info class)
  41208  Gridcoin Research Client crashes
  41305  Might and Magic VI: Game hangs before intro video (making it unplayable) [regression]
  41929  Multiple games need WINED3D_TEXF_ANISOTROPIC filter mode
  45967  Beat hazard 2 - bad network/float behavior
  47056  Solid Edge v15: Program freeze on File->Open
  48276  VSDC Video Editor needs VT_VECTOR|VT_I4 support in PropertyStorage_ReadProperty
  48473  kernelbase WaitNamedPipeW contains non-null terminated string, causing garbage output in trace logs
  48495  XCP-ng Center v8.x (.NET 4.6 app) can't connect to server with self-signed certificate
  48593  Multiple games play only one frame of video (Fable: The Lost Chapters, Audiosurf, Dark Souls 2, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee)
  48642  kernel32:process contains a race condition in test_WaitForJobObject()
  48683  iTunes v12.10.4.2 crashes on unimplemented function wmvcore.dll.WMIsContentProtected when adding folders to directory scan
  48698  Multiple installers fail with "Unknown method" (Flash 29, Rexygen)
  48700  Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem - there's a blob around the character's head.
  48732  How to Survive crashes on start (fullscreen mode)
  48734  How to Survive crashes when starting a new game
  48739  ConEmu (Windows console emulator) v19.10.12 fails to set Wininet's INTERNET_OPTION_IGNORE_OFFLINE and shows error dialog at startup
  48743  Multiple games have broken rendering (Sniper Elite V2, Sniper Elite 3, F1 2012)
  48750  Few missing DirectSound3D Algorithms GUID Defs
  48762  IExplore immediately crashes on www.msnbc.com with a failed assertion
  48765  Firefox 74.0 crashes instantly:  Call  to unimplemented function WS2_32.dll.WSCGetProviderInfo, aborting
  48801  Multiple games crash on unimplemented function d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11GetImageInfoFromFile (Assetto Corsa 1.14.x, Project Cars)
  48814  Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows installer crashes after wine-4.8-247-g0d7d0427d0

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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Proton 5.0-5 has been released

  Proton 5.0-5 has been released

  • Fix crash in some games introduced in Proton 5.0-4.
  • Fix networking error in Granblue Fantasy: Versus.
  • Support for latest OpenVR SDKs.
  • Add support for new Vulkan extensions used by some recent titles.

Link to source code

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Friday, March 13, 2020

Wine development release 5.4 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 5.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Unicode data updated to Unicode version 13.
  • Builtin programs use the new UCRTBase C runtime.
  • More correct support for Internationalized Domain Names.
  • Support for painting rounded rectangles in Direct2D.
  • Text drawing in D3DX9.
  • 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 5.4 (total 34):

  14949  ABBYY FineReader Pro 7.0 Scrolling Problem
  18013  Foxit Reader 3.0: Sidebar Search Window not accessible/useable.
  24013  Assassin's Creed (DX10) crashes (ID3D10ShaderReflection::GetConstantBufferByIndex is a stub)
  24754  Multiple games have no text rendered due to ID3DXFont::DrawTextA/W method stubs (Nancy Drew 'Tale of the Twister',  Europa Universalis Rome)
  28141  Delphi Twain examples don't work
  29330  8BallClub can't enter login details
  35077  PSPad 4.5.7 crashes on startup
  39816  BioShock 2 needs d3d10_shader_reflection_GetInputParameterDesc()
  40334  Multiple games and applications crash on unimplemented function ntdll.dll.RtlGetNativeSystemInformation (AION, AVG Free Edition 2012-2014, TuneUp Utilities 2014)
  40606  Unknown application needs dnsapi.dll.DnsGetCacheDataTable
  42585  Final Fantasy V Corrupt Fonts
  43533  Keepass 2.36 crashes on startup with Wine-Mono
  43620  NieR: Automata (Steam) crashes on startup
  43660  Divinity Original Sin 2 preview crash
  43696  SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition hangs on exit
  44253  Far Manager v3.0 crashes when using quick view mode (needs SHCreateAssociationRegistration stub)
  47288  Gaea 1.0.19 (.NET 4.7 WPF app) diagnostic tool 'Watson.exe' crashes due to 'kernel32.SetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx' stub
  47626  Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 web-installer fails due to missing MS root CA 2010 and rstrtmgr stubs
  48315  RPG Tkool (RPG Maker) 2k/2k3/XP/VX/VX Ace: MP3 playback doesn't loop
  48481  Settings for Templates and Downloads locations aren't exposed in winecfg
  48570  Multiple games (Fable: The Lost Chapters, Oddworld - Munch odissey) does not play WMV cutscenes
  48580  Discord connecting to voice needs unimplemented function qwave.dll.QOSAddSocketToFlow
  48635  Asuka 120% Return BURNING Fest: Crashes after character selection.
  48639  Shrew Soft VPN client needs setupapi.dll.SetupDiGetSelectedDriverA()
  48664  kernel32:process - Intermittent test_Toolhelp() failure
  48689  Wine 5.3 on Mac OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra: Segmentation fault
  48694  The Bat! (64bit) crashes right after start
  48697  New msvcrt inlines fail to compile on armv7hl due to non-AAPCS variadic function calls
  48705  Dynacadd 98 crash
  48706  Wineconsole freezes when restoring from minimized to maximized window
  48719  wow bat launcher doesn't work
  48723  Torchlight - Loading times are excessively long
  48735  Wine builtin services.exe process_send_command: OVERLAPPED struct for control pipe has uninitialized Offset and OffsetHigh fields
  48742  ntdll: get_modref: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Proton 5.0-4 has been released

 Proton 5.0-4  has been released

  • EA's Origin launcher is now functional and Jedi Fallen Order is playable.
  • Fix crash on launch in Grand Theft Auto V Online.
  • Fix Denuvo DRM failures in Just Cause 3 and Batman Arkham Knight.
  • Update DXVK to v1.5.5.
  • Improve performance when emulating display resolution changes.
  • Improve performance in Monster Hunter World.
  • Fix mouse cursor issue on focus loss in Ryse: Son of Rome.
  • Improve game launch times.

Link to source code

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Friday, March 6, 2020

Proton 4.11-13 has been released

  Proton 4.11-13 has been released

 Fix missing low color depth modes on certain hardware.


 Link to source code

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Friday, February 28, 2020

Wine development release 5.3 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 5.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More work towards Ucrtbase runtime support.
  • Full support for Unicode normalization.
  • Improvements in Shell Folders handling.
  • 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 5.3 (total 29):

  13925  IKEA Home Planner 2010 2D and 3D graphical views show only garbage
  18234  Lotus Approach (MDI app): double clicking minimized MDI child windows (icons) results in "About Wine" instead of maximize
  22974  "Shell folders" settings are reset after each wine update
  34622  Multiple games need DMO Wrapper Filter, 'qasf.dll' (Neocron, Age of empires III Steam, .NET XNA 3.x/4.x games using Media classes) (`winetricks qasf` is a workaround)
  37073  Trees not rendered correctly in Far Cry 2 when anti-aliasing enabled
  40649  apps (e.g. sysinternals' ADExplorer) that require ActiveDirectory connections/ADsOpenObject fail
  42038  Cannot scroll documents being compared in winmerge (Followup to bug 20695)
  42764  Proteus direct 3D render problem
  43465  Unit Test: ComboBox Dropdown does not work if Style is set and no scrollbar required
  43814  Multiple games require IMFSourceReader ReadSample Implementation (Danganronpa V3, Resident Evil 2 1-Shot Demo)
  47857  Logos Bible Software (.Net 4.7.2 app) crashes in win8/10 (because IsNormalizedString is just a stub)
  47884  msi:action systematically times out on Windows 2003
  47992  msi:action tests fail when running them twice
  48136  Wine can't be started, log notice: wineboot failed to start wineboot c00000e5
  48229  Regression on Automobilista. A lot of cars and tracks are not shown on Game menu
  48302  Warhammer Online doesn't render without d3dx9_34
  48386  Some CPU features are not reported for Intel CPU (Detroit: Become Human is affected)
  48387  User shared data area should have NumberOfPhysicalPages field filled in (used by Detroit: Become Human)
  48484  winecfg doesn't allow disabling Desktop Integration for Downloads
  48510  Lotus Organizer 97 crashes when selecting a Backup folder using 'Browse' button
  48549  Arma Cold War Assault: Cursor stuck at low fps since Wine 5.0-rc6
  48557  Multiple installers crash (Hot Wired, Croc installer) : Setup is unable to initialize  the language dialogbox: Error 106
  48569  Infinite drag & drop loop crashes WinSCP
  48577  DISPLAYCONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_TECHNOLOGY and other enums are the wrong size
  48594  AnyDesk crashes directly on startup (low WORD of instance handle must be ignored when looking up window classes)
  48646  QQMusicAgent crashes when started after installation
  48648  Gothic II Night of the Raven:unhandled exception in Wine 5.2
  48657  GdipGetNearestColor crash in Subtitle Edit
  48669  iphlpapi.NotifyUnicastIpAddressChange() should call the callback initially if requested (required for Far Cry 5 online mode)

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Saturday, February 22, 2020

Proton 5.0-3 has been released

  Proton 5.0-3 has been released

  • Support for Direct3D 12 mode in Metro Exodus.
  • Fix crash on launch in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and eFootball PES 2020.
  • Fix Automobilista unable to load some assets.
  • Fix high polling rate mouse regression.

Link to source code

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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Wine development release 5.2 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 5.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More compatible codepage mapping tables.
  • Support for using the null display driver as a real driver.
  • Better UTF-8 support in the Resource and Message Compilers.
  • Fixes for using ucrtbase as C runtime.
  • 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 5.2 (total 22):

  14697  OllyDbg 2.x freezes sometimes during processing of debug events (debug events can block completion of queued user APCs)
  18159  Lotus Approach (MDI app) has extra caption buttons and Control box
  18933  Free PDF to Word Doc converter doesn't work, window empty/hangs on launch (appinstall)
  34848  PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5.213 crashes when switching between document tabs
  36059  Multiple Steam games fail to install DirectX runtime prerequisite, resulting in repeated install attempt on startup ('xinput1_3.dll' locked by client)
  36521  Star Wars rebellion update 1.01 crashes on start (quoted process command line only created with special 'My Documents' folder)
  43934  SumatraPDF 3.1.2 has very narrow buttons in its installer
  45462  PDF X-Change Viewer (all versions) cannot click dialog box in menu
  45481  Spintires: MudRunner crashes at launch
  46619  Lineage 2 crashes (godworld.ru private server)
  46735  Multiple applications need Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9() implementation (The Sims 2 demo, Armed Assault)
  47018  Multiple applications show transparent bitmap images on static controls with black background (comctl32 lacking support for painting 32-bit BMPv3 with alpha channel)
  47718  x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip strip dlls make wine failed start
  48122  Arturia MIDI Control Center crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlIsNtDdiVersionAvailable
  48392  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function WS2_32.dll.WSCSetApplicationCategory (Verbum 8, Lineage 2's SmartGuard 3.0)
  48408  mixthread monopolizes buffer_list_lock if WaitForSingleObject returns quickly, causing livelock and game freeze
  48424  xl-r8r: Crashes right after splash screen (apparently because  vga.dll is missing)
  48480  dlls/krnl386.exe16 - thunk.c argument logic incorrect for CallProcEx32W16
  48489  .Net 4.7+ requires GpFontFamily to be referenced counted instead of cloning.
  48541  Affinity Photo trial (1.7.2) crashes:Call from 0x7b00fa3d to unimplemented function mscms.dll.WcsGetDefaultColorProfileSize
  48561  Cadence Allegro Professional 16.6 crashes at startup
  48571  Firefox 72.0.* crashes on every tab (unless dwrite is disabled)

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