World Wine News issue 421

This is the 421st 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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Vkd3d 1.4 Released

The Wine team is proud to announce that release 1.4 of vkd3d, the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, is now available.

This release contains improvements that are listed in the release notes. The main highlights are:

• Many improvements to the HLSL compiler.
• A new descriptor heap implementation using the VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing extension.
• A new fence implementation using the VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore extension.

The source is available here.

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Wine development release 7.11 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Android driver converted to PE.
• Zero-copy support with GStreamer.
• High Unicode planes support in case mappings.
• 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 7.11 (total 34):

  33381  Mayhem Triple renders too small
  33383  Foobar2000 crashes on Alt-H
  34176  Kernel32:CompareStringW strange behavior ?
  35027  Euphoria needs CreateProcessInternalW function
  36720  LCMapString with the parameter NORM_IGNORENONSPACE does not remove diacritics
  39144  SpinTires tech demo wrong rendering after changing screen resolution
  39298  kernel32 does not support custom nls installation.
  45634  enabling CSMT ruins performance for rFactor 1.255
  46281  Multiple Windows 7+ apiset-aware applications fail due to Wine loader lacking support for resolving virtual dlls via 'kernel32.GetModuleHandle' (Archicad 22)
  46782  CompareStringEx does not support SORT_DIGITSASNUMBERS flag
  49210  Mafia and Mafia II: Definitive Edition Launcher crashes with Wine-Mono
  49232  Saints Row The Third Remastered shows floating black rectangles
  50941  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function WS2_32.dll.WSAConnectByName (TIP-Integral, EasyMiniGW)
  50948  taskmgr.exe: wrong memory usage unit (GB => MB)
  51243  In Wine dinput:keyboard fails if the keyboard layout does not match the display language
  52663  Civilization 4: no text in main menu
  52752  Rich Edit Control does not support drawing OLE objects
  52795  Multiple applications crash in Mesa due to syscall stack overflow (Cyberpunk 2077, Stranger of Paradise, Doom Eternal with ray tracing)
  52831  Kernel32::GetSystemPowerStatus returns invalid data if /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 is missing
  52841  Leverless arcade controller SOCD cleaning does not work
  52885  Adobe Lightroom Classic 11.1 crash in user32
  52893  GreedFall crashes on launch
  52993  msi:action - test_publish() fails on date change
  52995  shell32:shelllink crashes in Wine cause shell32:shellpath's test_PathResolve()  to fail (test.bat file)
  52998  xaudio2_7:xaudio2 fails on Windows 1909+
  53029  Clipboard cut/paste partially broken in wine 7.8.1.2
  53035  Displaying Out-GridView in Powershell Core crashes with WinVer > Win7
  53038  Epic Games Launcher crashes on start
  53076  Kvaser CanKing needs ntoskrnl.exe.KfRaiseIrql and ntoskrnl.exe.KeLowerIrql
  53082  "explorer: Create clipboard manager thread when creating a desktop." causes hangs on wine startup
  53102  Ubisoft Connect fails to connect to server
  53112  winegstreamer build error
  53136  crypt32:cert - testVerifyRevocation() fails in Wine
  53138  crypt32:chain - testGetCertChain() fails in Wine

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Proton 7.0-3 has been released

• The following games are now playable:
  • Age of Chivalry
  • Beneath a Steel Sky
  • Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition
  • Cities XXL
  • Cladun X2
  • Cursed Armor
  • Flanarion Tactics
  • Gary Grigsby's War in the East
  • Gary Grigsby's War in the West
  • Iragon: Prologue
  • MechWarrior Online
  • Small Radios Big Televisions
  • Split/Second
  • Star Wars Episode I Racer
  • Stranger of Sword City Revisited
  • Succubus x Saint
  • V Rising
  • Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
  • We Were Here Forever

• Add support for Windows.Gaming.Input.
• Improve FPS in Street Fighter V during online matches.
• Improve Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice performance in certain areas.
• Fix Elden Ring crashing during prolonged gameplay.
• Fix the new Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher.
• Fix DEATHLOOP crashing after long system suspend.
• Fix The Turing Test crashing when starting Chapter 4.
• Fix controller support in Mini Ninja.
• Fix Resident Evil Revelations 2 not starting on the Steam Deck.
• Fix video playback in: Disintegration, Dread X Collection: The Hunt, EZ2ON REBOOT : R, El Hijo - A Wild West Tale, Ember Knights, Outward: Definitive Edition, POSTAL4: No Regerts, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, Street Fighter V, The Room 4: Old Sins. Fix video playback in Ghostwire: Tokyo and other games using VP8 and VP9 codecs.
• Fix non-steering-wheel controller support in WRC10.
• Fix S&box not finding any games to join.
• Fix The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Kai failing to start for the first time.
• Fix Mortal Kombat Komplete crashing when audio devices with long names are present.
• Fix handling of external links in Castle Morihisa.
• Improve text rendering in Rockstar Launcher.
• Improve steering wheel detection.
• Support xinput controller reordering on the Steam Deck.
• Update Wine Mono to 7.3.0.
• Update dxvk-nvapi to v0.5.4.
• Update dxvk to v1.10.1-57-g279b4b7e.

 Link to source code

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