World Wine News issue 408

This is the 408th 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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Wine development release 6.23 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.23 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Mount manager and CoreAudio driver converted to PE.
• Support for exception handling in Wow64 mode.
• Optional support for using the distribution's PE libraries.
• A number of UI improvements in WineDbg.
• 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 6.23 (total 48):

  25193  ICC Dasher 1.5.4 doesn't render main UI correctly and appears to be non responsive
  32991  win32-arm applications need ntdll.dll.RtlUnwindEx implementation for exception handling/unwinding
  43456  Serif WebPlus X8 fails to install
  44427  Internet Chess Club (ICC) Dasher 1.5.8 crashes after online login
  46017  Layers of Fear areas are almost entirely black rendered
  47287  Accessible Event Watcher Tool 'accevent.exe' from Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17763.x) crashes on unimplemented function oleacc.dll.AccessibleObjectFromEvent
  47843  Rockstar Game Launcher is unable to download a game completely
  48119  The tests sometimes trigger "critical section is not acquired" errors
  48950  NVDA needs oleacc.AccessibleObjectFromPoint implementation for mouse tracking
  49181  msvcrt_test.exe: missing entry point _point_get_sbh_threshold on Windows RT 8.x devices
  49426  Sookasa calls unimplemented functions and ntoskrnl.exe.RtlGetElementGenericTable ntoskrnl.exe.RtlLookupElementGenericTable
  50540  Windows PowerShell Core 6.2 Preview 2 for ARM32 crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.RtlVirtualUnwind
  50985  ns_name_skip is glibc specific, causes failure to build on musl
  51183  Navicat V15.0.25 crashes when attempting to open database: "Unhandled exception: page fault...."
  51307  msvcp140:msvcp140 fails on msvcp140 >= 14.25
  51415  Windows PC Health Check requires msvcp_win.dll
  51490  dinput:device has a random failure in overlapped_format_tests() on Windows 8.1
  51557  GetSystemFirmwareTable fails to return SMBIOS on Apple Silicon Macs
  51624  TETRIS (16bit) shows wrong background for scoreboard
  51647  Gimp deadlocks when opening image or createing image from screenshot
  51716  gameux:gamestatistics fails on Windows 10 1809+
  51733  CreateProcess does not properly set the current directory of the new process.
  51832  Fork: "The selection contains a non-folder object" when selecting a folder
  51834  EMF DC emits invalid EMF when calling StretchDiBits with info->bmiHeader.biSizeImage = 0
  51873  Joy.cpl crashes on the FFB tab when the FFB device is selected in the drop down list
  51895  ucrtbase:misc fma(inf, 0, 0) 'succeeds' unexpectedly on some machines
  51959  Missing procedure GetDayLightFlag
  51971  postgresql-9.3 installer needs scrrun:folder_CreateTextFile implementation
  51986  Extremely small fonts when using a theme
  51989  pen-related tests (gdiplus:graphics and gdiplus:graphicspath) fail on latest Windows 10
  51993  Ashlar Vellum/DrawingBoard 1.00 redraws incorrectly tooltip bar
  51996  aarch64: NtGetContextThread/NtSetContextThread on another thread ignores FPU state due to buggy SIGUSR1 handler
  52023  VirtualFree returning error when it should not
  52025  Regression: Custom color configuration resets if custom theme is applied
  52028  Regression: Themed contents doesn't displays correctly in some themes
  52036  Match the pairs card game crashes on start
  52058  GTA 1997 autorun.exe does not work
  52061  dinput HID joystick sends unnecessary effect update reports.
  52067  ntdll MEM_DECOMMIT change breaks d3d10_1:d3d10_1, d3d8:device, d3d8:visual, d3d9:device, d3d9:visual, ddraw:ddraw1, ddraw:dsurface and dxgi:dxgi
  52068  hid:device times out randomly in test_get_input_report()
  52069  ntdll:virtual fails in test_NtAllocateVirtualMemory() on Windows 10 1709 and older
  52072  winmm:mci fails in wow64 Wine
  52075  dinput8:device, dinput8:dinput and dinput8:hid cannot run on Windows 7 anymore
  52077  Windows PC Health Check crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-featurestaging-l1-1-0.dll.SubscribeFeatureStateChangeNotification
  52093  Installing Insta360 pro stitcher breaks  wine completely ( e.g. winecfg gives:  malloc(): invalid size (unsorted) Aborted)
  52102  outSPOKEN 3.0 demo crashes on unimplemented function krnl386.exe16.GetLPErrMode
  52103  Crazy Stone crashes after splash screen
  52133  winhttp/wininet should not query mDNS for proxy auto-detection

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Proton 6.3-8 has been released

• The following games are now playable:
  • Age of Empires 4
  • Assassin's Creed
  • Breath of Death VI
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops II singleplayer (202970)
  • DEATHLOOP
  • FIA European Truck Racing Championship
  • Fly'N
  • Game Dev Tycoon
  • Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered
  • GreedFall
  • Mafia II (Classic)
  • Magicka
  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (AMD GPUs only)
  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition (ME1 does not have working audio, see #4823)
  • Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
  • Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Video Game
  • Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Video Game 2
  • Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
  • Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slicked Precipice of Darkness 3
  • RiMS Racing
  • The Riftbreaker
  • Sol Survivor
  • TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge
  • TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge 2

 

• Added support for an initial set of BattlEye games.
• Improve compatibility with games using Valve's CEG DRM.
• Support DLSS in DX11 and DX12 games (guarded by PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 and dxgi.nvapiHack = False).
• Support latest Steamworks SDK.
• Fix crashes in Project Wingman, Satisfactory and other Unreal Engine 4 games using the Vulkan renderer.
• Fix a sporadic crash when starting Baldur's Gate 3.
• Fix networked multiplayer in RaceRoom Racing Experience.
• Fix cutscene desync in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.
• Fix audio stuttering in Gahkthun Steam Edition.
• Fix Atomic Shop and random crashes on start in Fallout 76.
• Fix Paradox Launcher (used by Europa Universalis IV) failing to display anything.
• Fix video freezing and causing game to hang in Deep Rock Galactic.
• Fix Industries of Titan not listing any resolutions and monitors.
• Fix Bloons TD6 not being able to access account settings, see docs/ICMP_ECHO.md.
• Fix Project CARS 3 ignoring inputs after Alt+Tab.
• Fix stuck Alt key after Alt+Tabbing out and back for Warhammer: Chaosbane.
• Support Thai characters in Mirror and other Unity games.
• Support Korean and Arabic characters in Cyberpunk 2077 launcher.
• Fix connection issues in Satisfactory on systems with multiple network interfaces.
• Fix Biomutant videos not playing.
• Update dxvk to v1.9.2-13-g714ca482.
• Update vkd3d-proton to v2.5-50-g0251b404.
• Update wine-mono to 6.4.1.

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Wine development release 6.22 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.22 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Mono engine updated to version 7.0.0.
• Exception unwinding on ARM.
• More improvements to HID joystick support.
• WoW64 thunks in a number of Unix libraries.
• Beginnings of moving USER32 to Win32u.
• 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 6.22 (total 29):

  21572  KFSensor 4.x/5.x: 'kfsnserv.exe' service fails to reliably stop/start/restart
  22260  Total Commander 7.x/8.x: editable dropdown is gray when opened and empty
  30498  Shadows broken on many games because of wrong depth formats
  38278  Multiple apps and games need wmvcore.dll.WMReader_Open implementation (Nail'd demo)
  42030  winedbg: Internal crash at 0x9f58fd40
  45130  Builtin xaudio2_7.dll break audio and slow down performance for some games since wine 3.5
  45443  Diablo 3: Starting the game causes a black screen softlock on the X-environment
  46512  Window text has last letter cut off
  47119  winedbg truncates 64-bit address when compiled with mingw
  49409  Monkey Island 2 Special Edition crash / freeze with built-in xactengine3_6
  49803  WIDL cannot import TLBs stored as resources in PE, such as stdole32.tlb and stdole2.tlb (even though both have tlb extension, they are essentially PE)
  50292  Process-local synchronization objects use private interfaces into the Unix library
  50757  (Regression) Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 Crashes/freezes frequently with FAudio
  51027  Fonts blurred for some words in Logos Bible Software
  51587  Force feedback strength is really low in multiple games
  51864  VeraCrypt Installer for 1.24-Update7 (Win8+) fails with HRESULT 0x800288BD
  51916  Empire Earth 2 UP 1.5: ImageButtons don't render right with custom themes
  51938  Safe Exam Browser needs "DNSDomain" from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
  51944  Resident Evil 6 stops to a black screen instead of playing videos
  51953  Joystick not detected for some older games with wine 6.20
  51956  Morrowind: freezes when control keys are changing
  51968  Winaero WEI Tool: Crash due to C:\windows\performance\winsat\datastore missing
  51970  Memento Mori needs output_props_GetType
  51978  Autodesk Fusion 360 crashes on unimplemented function msvcp140.dll.?table@?$ctype@D@std@@QEBAPEBFXZ
  51983  foobar2000 v1.5.1+ crashes on startup with Wine v6.6+ with Windows version set to "Windows 10"
  52022  Multiple games have unresponsive mouse/keyboard (Borderlands GOTY Enhanced, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Resident Evil Revelations)
  52044  Safe exambrowser needs msctfmonitor.dll
  52051  Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas fails to start (uses WINED3DFMT_R8G8_UINT in vertex declaration)
  52052  Wine doesn't show any window while creating/updating 64-bit prefix

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