Proton 6.3-4 has been released

 Proton 6.3-4 has been released

• Fix recent 2K Games launcher update
• Fix error on startup for some Direct3D 12 games
• Fix Divinity Original Sin 2 and Rise of Venice launcher display issues
• Fix Star Wars Squadrons VR incorrectly launching to desktop
• Fix Sacred Gold visual artifacts

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Wine development release 6.8 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Libraries installed into architecture-specific subdirectories.
• Secur32 library converted to PE.
• Support for Map object in JavaScript.
• 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 6.8 (total 35):

  11833  GroupMail 5.x crashes when creating new message
  19756  Date/time picker doesn't notify app about checkbox changes (TaskCoach: Cannot add new task with a due date)
  22327  Cannot install PGV demo for Windows using a clean wineprefix.
  24893  File/folder context menus have missing options (Explorer++, Double Commander)
  26189  Crysis Wars Dedicated Server no longer shows console on start under X
  28372  Ubuntu Skin Pack 5.0-XP installer crashes
  35102  Qvodplayer 3.5 Crashes on start
  35539  Proteus 8 demo fails to install
  37375  Visual C++ 2005 Express SP1 install fails
  39841  IShellFolder.CreateViewObject() doesn't support IID_IContextMenu (Double Commander "Error: invalid parameter" when right-clicking on an empty space)
  40227  LibreOffice 5.1.0 crashes when trying to run any Office program
  40382  CUEcards 2000 (v2.37) takes a lot of time to return with search results
  40823  Stone Giant demo crashes after launch
  41318  Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion requires binormal vectors support in D3DXComputeTangentFrameEx
  46948  Characters in The Sims Complete Collection render completely white
  49697  Age of Empires II (SafeDisc 1.x) fails to start since 3.0-rc
  49763  ALOTInstaller crashes
  49977  FIFA 11 Demo fifaconfig crashes when pressing Exit button
  49989  Samsung Dex installer crashes
  50006  The intro in The Sims Complete Collection gets played too fast
  50026  Powershell Core needs ntdll.RtlQueryProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode when run in win10 mode
  50117  winedbg --gdb doesn't work
  50396  Sacred Gold: wrong z-order or something else
  50503  Diablo 1: Game crashes after intro videos
  50961  Swtor game crash on splash screen 6.6
  50963  NtCreateUserProcess occasionally fails with STATUS_IMAGE_NOT_AT_BASE
  50980  Royal Quest: "out of memory" and other errors
  50992  Star Citizen crashes on unimplemented function advapi32.dll.QueryTraceA
  51028  Solid Edge 2021 Academic Edition: crash on startup
  51041  Scalable fonts with fsCsb[0] == 0 are not enumerated correctly
  51057  `winetricks -q mfc42` fails
  51067  ToolTaskTest:Execute_2 test fails on x86_64
  51070  Wine fails to create or update prefix
  51076  demangle_datatype in ucrtbase crash in vc2019 x86 mode
  51082  Regression: Powershell Core installs in wrong directory

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Proton 6.3-3 has been released

  Proton 6.3-3 has been released

• Previously in Experimental: Update vkd3d-proton to v2.3.1.
• Previously in Experimental: The Origin Overlay is functional, which allows It Takes Two to be played with friends.
• Previously in Experimental: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is playable.
• Previously in Experimental: Fix Red Dead Redemption 2 "Not Purchased" error.
• Previously in Experimental: Fix Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition hang on startup.
• Fixed launchers for Evil Genius 2, Zombie Army 4, Strange Brigade, Sniper Elite 4, Beam.NG, and Eve Online.
• The Bus and Army General are now playable.
• Support adjusting brightness/gamma in older games like Deus Ex.
• Fix Xbox controller detection in Far Cry Primal.

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vkd3d-proton version 2.3.1 has been released

VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan. The project serves as the development effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

 

 This is a minor bugfix release to address some issues solved shortly after the last release.

Fixes

• Improved support for older Wine and Vulkan Loader versions.
• Fix blocky shadows in Horizon Zero Dawn.
• Fix the install script failing on Wine installs not built with upstream vkd3d.
• Fix minor dxil translation issues.

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