Lutris 0.5.11-beta1 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.

Changelog :

• Fix for some installers commands exiting with return code 256
• Change shortcut for show/hide installed games to Ctrl + i
• Show/hide hidden games is assigned to Ctrl + h
• Install game launcher before login for services that use one.
• Added SheepShaver, BasiliskII and Mini vMac runners
• Don't perform runtime updates when a game is launched via a shortcut
• Fix crash when Lutris is unable to read the screen resolution
• Enable Gamescope on Nvidia >= 515
• Fixes for Steam shortcuts
• Add Gnome Console and Deepin Terminal to supported terminal emulators
• Fix crash when Mangohud is used alongside Gamescope
• Translation updates

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World Wine News issue 423

 

This is the 423rd 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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Wine development release 7.14 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.14 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More progress on syscall interface for USER32.
• Improved font fallbacks in DirectWrite.
• Some fixes for socket shutdowns.
• 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 7.14 (total 19):

  36711  Sid Meier's Civilization IV crashes while loading saved game (GOG.com complete, Colonization, Warlords, Beyond the Sword)('winetricks -q msxml3' is a workaround)
  39987  Multiple applications need 'shell32.SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems' implementation to open explorer window with specified items in particular folder selected (Firefox 42.0, Windows 95 Electron app)
  50624  Waves Central 12.0.5 fails to start: __call__ pywintypes.error: (1336, 'AddAccesAllowedAce', 'Invalid ACL.')
  51616  Unravel Two crashes on intro
  52594  Rust applications using the tokio library abort with "failed to park" error
  52673  Missing IShellItemImageFactory implementation for ShellItem.
  52773  wine prefix is not to ready to use after running wineboot
  52815  Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1 hangs during install
  53058  Incorrect socket reconnect behavior for DGRAM sockets
  53105  Certain specific dialogue boxes are permanently fullscreen
  53106  Icons not rendering properly in the window titlebar
  53189  Cheat Engine crashes when opening a drop-down menu
  53289  Unimplemented richedit ITextDocument::Undo and ITextDocument::Redo causes extraneous undo entries
  53307  World of Tanks broken with wined3d's Vulkan renderer
  53310  Roblox Fails With HttpSendRequest
  53348  Can't input anything with CJK input method (fcitx).
  53349  Sigma Data Center fails to sync with Sigma Cloud
  53372  Total War Shogun 2 spews RtlLeaveCriticalSection() section is not acquired errors in 3D scenes.
  53411  Wrong font is used in NtUserDrawCaptionTemp()

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World Wine News issue 422

This is the 422nd 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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