WineTricks 20220411 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.

 

Putty for Mac

$15.00

Wine development release 7.6 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Mono engine updated to version 7.2.0.
• More progress on the PE conversion of graphics drivers.
• Locale support using the new CLDR-based database.
• 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 7.6 (total 17):

  42309  The Crew (Uplay) crashes at start
  50158  Oculus Runtime won't start: "Could not load file or assembly 'Daybreak'"
  51437  If Windows version changes from 7 to 10, Microsoft Edge calls unimplemented function uiautomationcore.dll.UiaRaiseAutomationPropertyChangedEvent
  52340  wine-mono + RMS Express: COM Port errors connecting to radios
  52401  Improper synchronization in sock_recv/sock_send leads to arbitrary reordering of completion of I/O requests
  52616  SteelSeries GG installer crashes on unimplemented function setupapi.dll.SetupQueryInfVersionInformationW
  52628  game frozen after opening due to infinite loop in winmm.mmioDescend()
  52638  The 64-bit winmm:mci fails and crashes in test_openCloseWAVE() in Wine
  52652  Adobe Photoshop 7.0 crashes on startup
  52658  Swisslog freezes on startup
  52660  chunk allocator for GL uniform buffers kills performance in World of Warships
  52668  Sparx Enterprise architect v15.2 1560 crashing on wine 7.4
  52698  JW Scheduler installer fails to start: "Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2"
  52713  Nota Bene installer has black background
  52721  d3dx9_36:effect, d3dx11_42:d3dx11 and d3dx11_43:d3dx11 broken by use of vkd3d_shader_compile() for D3DCompile2()
  52722  Winetricks dotnet installation hangs at wineserver -w
  52728  wine-7.5 build fails in Ubuntu 18.04

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Lutris 0.5.10 has been released with Steam Deck support

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.

Steam Deck support

We're pleased to announce the release of Lutris 0.5.10! This is the first release since the Steam Deck has started shipping and yes, Lutris runs quite nicely on the device. Many thanks to Valve for providing a dev kit!

Please note that the Flatpak version still needs some work and will be the next point of focus now that 0.5.10 is out. Currently, Lutris has been tested with the installation from the Arch and AUR repositories. This requires disabling the read only flag of your Deck's system drive and should only be done if you're comfortable with Linux to some extent. Consider re-enabling the read-only flag after installing Lutris.

Also note that major SteamOS upgrades might reset the system partition and require you to reinstall Lutris. This hasn't happened yet, and minor Steam Deck updates won't affect your Lutris installation. We hope having the Flatpak version ready before any major upgrade happens.

It's recommended to use the "Create Steam shortcut" when installing games, this will make the game available in the Deck UI and allow you to benefit from Steam Input. If you want to play games in desktop mode and use the Deck controls as a joypad, make sure you configure Steam accordingly, as it is set by default to emulate a keyboard and mouse.

Adding games

Make sure to click the "+" button to see its new functionality. It used to be for adding a game manually but now offers a lot of other options as shown below

"Search the Lutris website" replaces the "Community installers" tab in the Lutris service. The Lutris service now acts like the others and simply show your library from lutris.net.

"Scan a folder for games" is useful if you have a folder of games you previously installed with lutris but are no longer indexed in the client. This feature matches folder names with lutris game identifiers and uses the install script to find the correct executable

"Install a Windows game from media" is useful when you want to install a game from a setup.exe in an optical media or a download.

"Install from a local install script" is a GUI version of the previously available -i / --install command line flag and allows you to install local YAML installers

"Add locally installed game" open the dialog to add a game manually, this was the default behavior of the "+" button.

Integrations

Lutris receives 2 new integration with support for Origin and Ubisoft Connect. As with the Epic Games Store integration, you will need to install the Origin and Ubisoft Connect clients to use this integration. This is especially important for Ubisoft Connect, since their API doesn't return all your games and most will be available once you have logged in the Windows client.
Ubisoft Connect also has a tendency to be slow and getting stuck on an "Initializing" dialog. If this happens, close the dialog and retry installing or launching the game you which to play.

The Origin client can sometimes fail to update itself. When this happens click the "cancel" button but when Origin asks you for confirmation to cancel the update, say no and Origin will restart the update process, completing it successfully.

Humble Bundle has made changes to their API and it is currently not possible to log in or install games until we provide a patch.

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 option to add a Lutris game to Steam
• 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
• Default to Retroarch cores in ~/.config/retroarch/cores if available
• Add support for downloading patches and DLC for GOG games
• Add --export and --import command line flags to export a game a lutris
  game and re-import it (requires --dest for the destination path, feature still experimental)
• Add command line flags to manage runners: --install-runner, --uninstall-runners,
  --list-runners, --list-wine-versions
• Change behavior of the "Stop" button, remove "Kill all Wine processes" action
• Gamescope option is now disabled on Nvidia GPUs
• Enable F-Sync by default

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World Wine News issue 415

This is the 415th 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. 

The full article is here

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