World Wine News issue 412

This is the 412th issue of World Wine News. Its main goal is to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open-source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code. 

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Proton 7.0-1 has been released

• The following games are now playable:
  • Anno 1404
  • Call of Juarez
  • DCS World Steam Edition
  • Disgaea 4 Complete+
  • Dungeon Fighter Online
  • Epic Roller Coasters XR
  • Eternal Return
  • Forza Horizon 5
  • Gravity Sketch VR
  • Monster Hunter Rise
  • NecroVisioN
  • Nights of Azure
  • Oceanhorn: Monster of the Uncharted Seas
  • Order of War
  • Persona 4 Golden
  • Resident Evil 0
  • Resident Evil Revelations 2
  • Rocksmith 2014 Edition
  • SCP: Secret Laboratory
  • Wargroove
  • Wartales
  • Yakuza 4 Remastered

• Added support for EasyAntiCheat if the game has enabled a Linux module.
• Added support for local decoding of H264 videos.
• Fix Sea of Thieves' voice chat.
• Fix Sea of Thieves getting stuck on "locating fresh supplies" when joining multiplayer.
• Improve Steam Input controller support for games running via Origin.
• Fix Beacon crashing when getting into daily/weekly challenge.
• Improve audio support in Skyrim and Fallout 4.
• Fix flickering in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord launcher.
• Fix Age of Empires IV and Marvel's Avengers displaying graphics drivers warnings.
• Fix audio in Mass Effect 1 from Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
• Improve Runescape stability.
• Fix quick save in Castlevania Advance Collection.
• Improve Paradox Launcher support.
• Fix Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous hang on exit.
• Fix Far Cry regression - the game is playable again.
• Fix Doom Eternal's multiplayer.
• Various performance improvements around input, windowing, and memory allocation that were previously in Experimental.
• Update Wine to 7.0.
• Update DXVK to 1.9.4.
• Update vkd3d-proton to 2.5-146-g33f17cc7.
• Update wine-mono to 7.1.2.

Link to source code

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Lutris 0.5.10-beta1 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 :

• Add new window to add games to Lutris, with searches from the website,
  scanning a folder for previously installed games, installing a Windows
  game from a setup file, installing from a YAML script or configuring a
  single game manually.
• Move the search for Lutris installers from a tab in the Lutris service
  to the window for adding games.
• Add a coverart format
• Add integration with EA Origin
• Add integration with Ubisoft Connect
• Download missing media on startup
• Remove Winesteam runner (install Steam for Windows in Lutris instead)
• PC (Linux and Windows) games have their own dedicated Nvidia shader cache
• Add dgvoodoo2 option
• Add option to enable BattleEye anti-cheat support

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Wine development release 7.2 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Large scale cleanup to support 'long' type with MSVCRT.
• Mono engine updated to version 7.1.1.
• More theming fixes in common controls.
• Beginnings of a WMA decoder.
• Support for 64-bit time_t.
• 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 7.2 (total 23):

  12732  Nota Bene crashes on install
  33086  QQ 2013 Beta2: text in input box can't display normally
  34326  uplive.exe from TypeEasy crashes
  36566  Half-Life's (CD Version) Menu refuses to work after a while
  37609  Macromedia Freehand 9 demo hangs during startup
  38809  QQ 7.3 Light crashes randomly
  40827  VMWare VSphere 4.x/5.x/6.x clients fail to install
  44202  undname.c fails to parse symbols with rvalue-reference semantics '&&'
  46284  Call of Juarez crashes with unimplemented function d3dx9_29.dll.D3DXSHProjectCubeMap
  47463  QQ 9.1.5 crash on start.
  48815  user32:win "unexpected 0x738 message" Windows 10 failures
  50352  Maximum sockets per process is set very low
  50842  The 64-bit msado15:msado15 test crashes
  51130  user32:win test_SetActiveWindow() has 2 failures on Vista to Windows 8.1
  51392  user32:monitor breaks user32:win
  51513  Multiple applications (PG Offline 4.0.907, lessmsi v1.10.0, MIDIopsy 1.2, Quickroute) crash on start with IndexOutOfRangeException with Wine-Mono
  51754  Iris Down CountDown Crash at start - dotnet4.5
  51798  MAmidiMEmo doesn't start up ("System.resources" is required)
  52433  TASInput (Mupen64-RR-Lua): checkbox is not cleared correctly
  52436  In Light Blue theme, checkable toggle buttons (BS_AUTOCHECKBOX) look unchecked when hovered
  52490  Clipboard.GetText() doesn't work
  52494  shell32 progman_dde tests crash if run immediately after prefix creation
  52510  alt:V mod for Grand Theft Auto V fails due to missing concrt140._Byte_reverse_table@details@Concurrency@@3QBEB

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