World Wine News issue 418

This is the 418th 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 7.8 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• X11 and OSS drivers converted to PE.
• WoW64 support in the sound drivers.
• Number formatting using the new locale 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 7.8 (total 37):

  18635  Adobe Lightroom 2.3: Menu bar is hidden
  43208  Assassin's Creed IV - Black Flag Hangs tightly
  43995  Uplay - Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag won't start
  45388  user32:edit fails on Traditional Chinese and Korean locales
  48045  comdlg32:filedlg crashes or times out randomly
  48048  urlmon:protocol - The ftp test fails on Vista to Windows 8
  51181  d3d10core:d3d10core fails systematically on AMD GPUs
  51407  kernel32:time, msvcrt:time and shlwapi:ordinal fail in Wine because Hindi is Unicode-only
  51460  oleaut32:vartest has a todo because Wine uses an outdated currency symbol for Swiss Francs
  51619  advapi32:registry fails in Wine because French & German timezone name translations are too long
  52079  oleacc:main crashes randomly on Windows 10 1709+
  52149  user32:dialog fails in test_DialogBoxParam() on current Windows 10 21H1
  52362  Powershell Core 7 installer hangs forever on Chinese locale (LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8)
  52554  Serbian locale mapping cause crash on multiple installshield wizards
  52559  kernel32:resource times out since 2021-12-29 at two win10 testbot systems.
  52684  Command and Conquer Generals (and C&C Zero Hour) have no ground textures
  52704  FreeHand 9 demo: invalid handle exception (0xc0000008) when attaching uxtheme.dll
  52743  cannot write to _fdopen'ed stdout when running in docker
  52771  Wine console creation breaks comctl32:button, dinput:keyboard, user32:dialog, user32:input, user32:monitor and user32:win
  52828  Incorrect instruments in MIDI playback over ALSA
  52845  Recent versions of chromium have broken sandbox again
  52847  GetACP() returns CP_UTF8 on some debian VM
  52856  kernel32:process fails when Wine has no Unix terminal
  52857  msvcp140:msvcp140 fails in Windows 8.1 on the cw-rx460 machine
  52858  kernel32:file fails in Windows 8.1 on the cw-rx460 machine
  52861  kernel32:locale fails on Windows 10 1709
  52864  windows.media.speech:speech has a refcount failure on all Windows 10 versions
  52865  windows.media.speech:speech has a Windows 10 1507-specific failure
  52866  vbscript:run fails in Wine in Arabic and Hebrew
  52867  Multiple applications crash because of ResolveLocaleName stub (dnSpy, dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-win-x64, Metatogger 7.2)
  52869  kernel32:locale - test_CompareStringA() fails on Windows with a UTF-8 code page
  52871  oleaut32:vartest has failures in Wine in the Arabic and Hebrew locales
  52887  Get-Computerinfo from NoPowershell crashes
  52904  kernel32:locale breaks oleaut32:varformat on Wine in the French locale
  52922  The Evil Within crashes before entering the main menu using Vulkan renderer
  52924  Guilty Gear XX #Reload: black screen since wine 5.0
  52953  GuiPy crashes on unimplemented function xmllite.dll.CreateXmlReaderInputWithEncodingCodePage

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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

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