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Monday, May 14, 2018

WineTricks 20180513 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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Sunday, May 13, 2018

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.8 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.8 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Infrastructure for writing kernel driver tests.
  • Support for showing file properties in the Shell browser.
  • MP3 decoder as a DirectX Media Object.
  • More support for the Task Scheduler.
  • Support for COM aggregation in UrlMon.
  • 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 3.8 (total 32):

  10365  Multiple applications fail to install due to custom action dll instance data not reset (dll pinned during execution of multiple custom actions)(Nero 7, ABBYY FineReader 9, Lingvo X5/X6, TradeStation 10.0)
  16144  Acrobat Reader X, XI and Photoshop CS any version crash on complex documents due to missing atmlib.dll (Adobe Type Manager, Windows NT OpenType/Type 1 API Library)
  21404  winedbg does not support fixed host:port parameter
  21530  Wrong notification format used by tooltip attached to Toolbar
  22048  Installation of '.NET documentation' from Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installer fails (VS90-KB953196-x86.exe hotfix fails with incorrect TARGETDIR)
  23757  Free Pascal 2.4.0 segfaults (Cygwin 1.5.18 TLS implementation overwrites Wine/glibc/pthread data near Tib->StackBase)
  30449  GDIPaint does not paint (works with native gdiplus)
  30713  Microsoft Visual C++ 64-bit redistributables get incorrectly installed into SysWOW64 (system directory for 32-bit files) when run under 64-bit Wine
  31741  python.org 64-bit Python 2.7.3 installer: selecting preferred installation folder does nothing (32-bit bootstrapper process needs custom action script/dll executed in 64-bit server process)
  37856  Multiple installers fail due to 32-bit custom actions erroneously executed in 64-bit MSI process (packages needs to be processed as 32-bit by default, with relegation to 32-bit server)
  38073  GdipDrawPath graphics object has no HDC (graphical glitches in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3)
  43607  Akiba's Trip Undead & Undressed requires MFStartup to return S_OK.
  44118  Steam Big Picture requires d3d11 Multiple Viewports
  44119  Steam Big Picture requires d3d11 Multiple scissor rects
  44334  'start /W "" notepad' does not wait as on native.
  44399  WickrMe 4.19.7: Crashes due to stub combase.RoGetActivationFactory
  44553  Kerberos support added in Wine 3.1 is breaking build on some old Linux distributions
  44866  Autodesk Fusion 360 fails to run: propertystore_SetValue and propertystore_Commit need fake success
  44895  League Of Legends: Unable to log in if behind OpenWRT based router
  44914  Wrong cursor for IDC_SIZEWE
  44953  Adobe Premiere Elements 14 (trial) crashes inside winmm.dll
  44959  Adobe Premiere Elements 14 fails to install: ERROR: DF039: Cannot set folder icon. Error 2 File not found.(Seq 4)
  44976  ConEmu-Maximus5 Windows console emulator causes crash of builtin 'wineconsole.exe' (division by zero)
  45033  Dragon Naturally Speaking 15 installer fails with 'CheckWMIService' returning error 1602 (needs dummy Windows Management Instrumentation service 'winmgmt')
  45073  MSI custom action server process crashes in remote_GetActionInfo while unmarshalling data (affects many MSI installers)
  45078  UFOHD2 crashes inside devenum
  45081  DsEnumerateDomainTrusts stubbed without A/W suffix
  45118  Microsoft Windows PowerShell 6.x reports 'PowerShell Gallery is currently unavailable.' (WinHttpSetOption returns incorrect lasterror on unsupported options)
  45134  Multiple MSI-based installers crash in custom actions with unhandled RPC exception 0x6b5 'Unknown Interface' (World Racing 2 demo, ABBYY Lingvo x6)
  45136  Wine does not behave as Windows when using TBM_SETPAGESIZE call before TBM_SETRANGE
  45143  Neoncron 2 Launcher crashes embedding IE browser process when clicking bottom menu items
  45157  Toolbar code crashes on certain button tooltips

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Saturday, May 12, 2018

Lutris 0.4.16 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 crash preventing running or configuring wine games
  • Fix Steam being shut down regardless of the associated option's setting
  • Fix some external library folders not being detected
  • Fix crash on InstallerWindow for GTK < 3.22
  • Remove Ctrl+Q shortcut

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Friday, May 11, 2018

Lutris 0.4.15 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 RPCS3 runner
  • Prevent Lutris from killing Steam if it's downloading a game
  • Add option to run DRM free Steam games without opening Steam
  • Add custom-name directive for install scripts
  • Set default Wine architecture to 64bit
  • Add support for DXVK in Wine games
  • Prioritize libraries in /usr/lib over the Lutris runtime
  • Disable Lutris runtime on Wine games if Wine is installed globally
  • Download recent wine version if the system installed one is too old
  • Record installation date of games
  • Add option for menu mode key in MESS
  • Support hard disk images for FS-UAE
  • Various UI fixes

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