World Wine News issue 417

This is the 417th 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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Proton 7.0-2 has been released

• Now playable:
  • Atelier Ayesha
  • Devil May Cry HD Collection
  • Dragon Quest Builders 2
  • A Way Out
  • Fall in Labyrinth
  • King of Fighters XIII
  • Montaro
  • ATRI -My Dear Moments-
  • Guilty Gear Isuka
  • INVERSUS Deluxe
  • Metal Slug 2 and 3 and X
  • One Shot and One Shot: Fading Memory
  • Call of Duty Black Ops 3
  • Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul
  • Medieval Dynasty
  • Bright Memory: Infinite
  • Double Dragon Trilogy
  • Baseball Stars 2
  • Elden Ring

 

• Fix The Last Campfire not starting on the Steam Deck.
• Fix STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy not displaying anything on the Steam Deck.
• Fix Unity games crashing on launch with certain peripherals connected (e.g. Logitech's Unifying Receiver).
• Fix Microsoft Flight Simulator crashing after a recent game update.
• Fix Quake Champions crashing after a recent game update.
• Fix multiplayer in UNO.
• Fix some older games including Deus Ex GOTY, Prey 2006, Quake 4 and Chaser having visible banding especially in shadows compared to older Protons.
• Fix Swords of Legends Online performance regression.
• Fix video playback in Atelier Meruru, Cook-out, DJMAX RESPECT V, Gloomhaven, Haven, Rust, Rustler, The Complex, TOHU, Monster Train, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Car Mechanic Simulator 2021, Nine Sols Demo.
• Fix DiRT Rally 2 and DiRT 4 not being able to connect to the game server.
• Fix Cyberpunk 2077 crashing with 4.0 audio setups.
• Fix random hang on exit in Little Nightmares 2.
• Fix Civilization VI and Chicken Invaders Universe crashing a few minutes into the game.
• Fix Assassin's Creed Odyssey displaying unsupported driver warning in the overlay.
• Fix Persona 4 Golden lacking audio in the cutscenes.
• Fix low Forza Horizon 5 performance with fsync enabled.
• Fix Uplay / Ubisoft Connect reliably failing to update with fsync enabled.
• Fix STAR WARS: Squadrons displaying warning about outdated drivers.
• Fix Devil May Cry 5 and Capcom Arcade Stadium crashing when scrolling through videos too quickly.
• Fix GTA V randomly crashing on certain window managers.
• Fix Teardown randomly crashing.
• Fix Melty Blood: Type Lumina hanging on the intro video.
• Fix Arma 3 launcher.
• Fix VR Chat not handling suspend / resume well.
• Fix Vampyr and The Beast Inside displaying menus a few pixels wide on Steam Decks.
• Fix Apex Legends sometimes starting minimized on Steam Decks.
• Fix Quake Live being unable to connect to multiplayer matches.
• Fix Killing Floor 2 not connecting to the item server.
• Fix Xbox login window lagging with updating window's content.
• Fix Horizon Zero Dawn running in slowmotion.
• Fix Age of Chivalry crashing when starting a match.
• Fix Ride 3 having horizontally squished main menu on the Steam Deck.
• Fix Chrono Trigger intro video stutter.
• Fix Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition crash on resolution or vsync change.
• Update dxvk to v1.10.1.
• Update vkd3d-proton to v2.6.
• Update dxvk-nvapi to v0.5.3

 Link to source code

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Wine development release 7.7 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More progress on the PE conversion of the X11 and OSS drivers.
• Support for UTF-8 as default Ansi codepage.
• Theming support for control panel applets.
• 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 7.7 (total 11):

   6682  IrfanView's 4.44 Help -> About window is missing a picture on the left
  24574  RAR Password Recovery Magic initial (registration) window is empty and doesn't allow any interaction
  45916  x64dbg fails to load debuggee, needs ThreadScheduler_ScheduleTask
  52223  activeCodePage utf-8 in application manifest not respected
  52640  Steam does not display anything when using the Vulkan renderer (stack overflow from official Vulkan loader calling into dxgi)
  52679  Anno 1602 / 1602 A.D. graphics too dark / black
  52703  64-bit Irfanview crashes on startup
  52763  ConEmu doesn't work with winver > Win8.1
  52787  Invalid function prototype for "RegisterUserApiHook" when compiling for C++
  52809  steamwebhelper.exe crashes repeatedly since 2aa4673f32
  52825  Capella help crashes with Error "qtwebengingeprocess has serious errors"

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Lutris 0.5.10.1 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.

This is a small update for the client released a few weeks ago. The goal is mainly to provide some fixes to improve Flatpak compatibility and provide a good experience on the Steam Deck.

A few fixes unrelated to Flatpak have been added as well and the MangoHUD option is now a simple switch (this requires the latest version of MangoHUD to have support for both 32bit and OpenGL games.)

CHANGELOG

• Check for Steam executable in home folder for Flatpak
• Adjust the Steam, application and desktop shortcuts to launch with
  Flatpak when necessary
• Disable local (XDG) service in Flatpak
• Simplify MangoHUD option (now an On/Off toggle)
• Remove ability for Lutris to quit Steam
• Don't default to fsync on older kernels
• Default to a base resolution when Lutris is unable to read the current
  configuration
• Fix issue with .NET 4.8 installation which affects the FF XIV launcher

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