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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Lutris 0.5.8.4 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 :

This is a bugfix release only and doesn't contain any new features. The release of lutris 0.5.9 is due soon.

Fixes:

  • Fix Steam icon showing too big on some systems
  • Fix DXVK not updating
  • Fix Python 3.9 compatibility
  • Update sidebar on service login
  • Remember position of window except on Wayland maybe
  • GST plugin path is now only set if it exists
  • Default to 7zip when not given an archive extractor
  • Switch IRC to Libera chat
  • Fix libretro info file loading
  • Let pipewire users toggle "Reduce PulseAudio latency"

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Friday, July 2, 2021

Wine development release 6.12 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Builtin "Blue" and "Classic Blue" themes.
  • More work towards WinSock PE conversion.
  • Beginnings of the NSI (Network Store Interface) implementation.
  • Support for 32/64-bit registry views in reg.exe.
  • 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 6.12 (total 42):

   8606  No network-support in the game Joint Operations Typhoon Rising
  21259  Visual C++ 2005 Trial build hangs on first run after a reboot
  24501  wine-mono does not support WPF
  27133  WiX 3.5 with Mono 2.10 generates broken MSI packages when 2 files of identical size are added to the same installer
  28393  WiX Toolset v3.x: light.exe can't find files in deeply-nested directories
  33421  Cypress PSoC Creator 3.0 installer fails with Wine-Mono ('System.SystemException: Error running C:\windows\mono\mono\mini\mono.exe: File not found.')
  34045  Provide Managed DirectX replacement assemblies for Mono (Gray Matter demo)
  34643  The Bureau XCOM Declassified (.NET 4.0 managed C++/CLI game) crashes with Wine-Mono
  42191  Multiple games require d3d11 deferred contexts (Diablo 3, Dark Souls 3, The Evil Within, Elex, Alien: Isolation, Assassin's Creed III)
  46592  Heroes III Horn of the Abyss 1.5.4 TCP/IP issue
  46595  Rainbow Six Siege hangs on Uplay splash screen
  46960  Mono's interactive C# shell crashes when typing a character
  47791  Inconsistent %ERRORLEVEL% after setting env var value in cmd.exe
  48000  Multiple installers call 'reg.exe' with unhandled 'copy' command (CDBurnerXP 4.1.x - 4.4.x, Windows PowerShell 2.0)
  48530  DWScript Http.sys 2.0 Web Application Server demo crashes on startup (needs support for httpapi.HttpSetUrlGroupProperty 'HttpServerLoggingProperty' property)
  49315  Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI remains stuck on a grey screen after the introduction video.
  49395  Multiple Direct2D applications stopped working after upgrade to Wine 5.10 which removed advertising of ID3D10Device interface on d3d11 devices (Altium Designer 20, T-Force Alpha Plus VST2 64bit plugin, MSDN-Direct2D-Demo)
  49935  mismatch behavior in API function GetOpenFileName
  50113  Total Commander 9.51: when using a third-party theme with Windows XP, the drive buttons and function buttons at the bottom of the window (F5 Copy) are not displayed
  50209  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat needs D3DX10CreateTextureFromMemory implementation
  50506  WM_INPUT messages are not received for HID devices registered with RegisterRawInputDevices
  50603  WiX Toolset v3.11 installer crashes when loading update feed XML
  50735  MSBuild fails to launch FileTracker
  50793  Regression: Far Cry crashes on launch
  51052  6.4 regression: 32-bit Cheat Engine attaching its debugger leads to the target process crashing
  51214  rundll.exe and winoldap.mod crash
  51223  Wine 6.10 regression, dinput broken in certain situations?
  51225  regression - Warframe colors messed up - wine staging
  51244  Frostpunk doesn't launch with builtin msvcr120
  51257  Wine 6.10 regression, crash after "_Locinfo__Locinfo_ctor_cat_cstr" message in CLI
  51258  Timespinner controller input stopped working in wine 6.10
  51264  GUI exe receives invalid StdOutput HANDLE if launched via ShellExecuteEx
  51266  S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly 1.5.1: AI Targeting Is Broken
  51278  wine packages for ubuntu have dependency glitch
  51291  Youkoso! Sukebe Elf no Mori e (demo) doesn't show thumbnail image in monitor settings.
  51303  Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes needs d3d11_swapchain_GetLastPresentCount implementation
  51322  Clang-cl 12 fails on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetProcessGroupAffinity
  51324  Imperium Great Battles of Rome can't play videos
  51328  DWScript Http.sys 2.0 Web Application Server demo crashes on startup (needs httpapi.HttpSetServerSessionProperty)
  51335  Multiple applications require tbs.dll (Windows PC Health Check, TrouSerS, readpcr)
  51347  QQ 2021 installer: have no permission for the installation path.
  51375  SCM erroneously tries to start 64-bit kernel drivers as 32-bit service due to incorrect handling of 'IMAGE_FILE_DLL' image characteristics in 'kernel32.dll.G
 

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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Proton 6.3-5 has been released

  • Many improvements to video rendering. Games known to be improved include:
    • Bloodstained
    • Deep Rock Galactic
    • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
    • Resident Evil 2 (2019)
    • Resident Evil 3 (2020)
    • Team Sonic Racing


  • Update DXVK to v1.9.
  • Improve GPU device selection.
  • Update vkd3d-proton to include the latest development work.
  • The following games are now playable:
    • Sid Meier's Civilization VI
    • Crypt Stalker
    • Dark Devotion
    • Dorfromantic
    • Far Cry
    • Hard Reset
    • Hogs of War
    • Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
    • Pro Cycling Manager 2020
    • Sang Froid - Tales of Werewolves
    • Secret of Mana
    • Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019
  • Improve controller support in Hades and many Unity titles.
  • Fix CyberPunk 2077, Darksburg, and other launchers hanging when external links are clicked.
  • Fix Conan Exiles and other Funcom launchers crashing.
  • Fix missing audio in Project Cars 3.
  • Better support for container-based builds outside of the build VM.

Link to source code

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Friday, June 18, 2021

Wine development release 6.11 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Theming support in all builtin programs.
  • All remaining CRT math functions imported from Musl.
  • MP3 support requires libmpg123 also on macOS.
  • Support for codepage 720 (Arabic).
  • 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 6.11 (total 33):

  24172  Microsoft SyncToy 2.1 doesn't start with Wine-Mono
  29184  Hogs of War: ground is missing somewhere
  30244  Might & Magic Clash of Heroes: fails to start
  36165  msvcrt/string tests fail under valgrind
  37149  python 3.1.1:  test_cmath failed
  37858  WHO Anthro (.NET app) installer fails, reporting 'FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: The specified table does not exist.'
  39142  Roblox Client/Server connection is dropped with error "This server has shut down."
  40505  PDF Eraser Shows False File Names in File Open dialog with wine-mono
  41048  Roller Coaster Rampage fails to start: 'Failed to init XACT' - {0aa000aa-f404-11d9-bd7a-0010dc4f8f81} xactengine2_0.dll
  41292  Nexton LC-ScriptEngine freezes, possibly bad dsound notifications
  41403  Ri-li 2.0.1 shows black screen instead of actual game content
  42215  Pendulumania: Black screen (needs to emulate 8bpp mode in winex11)
  42928  EmuMovies Sync 2.x fails login with Wine-Mono
  44511  Winecfg - Only partially shows new theme after clicking apply
  45202  Stories: The Path of Destinies - multicolored textures
  45940  Missing CLSID e018945b-aa86-4008-9bd4-6777a1e40c11 (CLSID_WICPngDecoder2 ?)
  46043  Notepad++ v7.5.9 x86 'MarkdownViewer++' v0.8.2 plugin (.NET 4.0 based) causes abnormal program termination with Wine-Mono 4.7.3
  47812  Cygwin's strace.exe crashes due to custom TLS corruption
  48891  Bash from Cygwin/msys2 terminates after first command
  49459  Memu installer fails: wine: Call from 0x7b00f0b7 to unimplemented function wuaueng.dll.DllRegisterServer, aborting
  49668  Two Worlds Epic Edition needs {cd0d66ec-8057-43f5-acbd-66dfb36fd78c}, xactengine2_7 to play audio
  50041  Amnesia: Rebirth crashes with builtin vcomp140
  50520  Multiple applications need WSAIoctl(SIO_BASE_HANDLE) (Rust applications using the Mio or Smol libraries, Starcraft Remastered)
  50592  ZynAddSubFX 3.0.3 Demo can't load/open/save presets
  50595  Foxit Reader 5.1 crashes on unimplemented function 'msdrm.dll.DRMRegisterContent' when exiting
  50615  Excel 2007 needs ICreateTypeInfo2::DeleteFuncDesc()
  51184  test_font_metrics() fails in gdi32:font for bitmap fonts on Windows 10 >= 1709
  51192  GnuTLS error: Error in the pull function/ Login to Teamspeak, Blizzard... not possible.
  51222  Multiple games have rendering issues caused by import of logf from musl (Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Just Cause 4, Wizard101)
  51224  Otvdm can't start any Win16 application
  51231  WeChat can't display QR code in login dialog.
  51262  Since 308a5e7 no 32bit program starts
  51273  Starcraft 2 64 bit .exe not starting since 25b093f384

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