Software Update: Wine 1.7.12

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.7.12. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. The software makes it possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, among others. A large group of developers contribute to Wine and it has been decided to release a new so-called development version every two weeks, instead of waiting for a number of new functions to be ready. A stable edition is published a few times a year. The database with applications that work under Wine, with or without the help of minor adjustments, contains 20,969 titles at the time of writing. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Initial support for Window Media Player interfaces.
• Some more Task Scheduler support.
• Various C++ runtime fixes.
• More dlls with ugly names for Windows 8 API set support.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.12 (total 89):

• 3467 Capitalism II [DirectDraw – Missing Surface_Lock]
• 8783 USB serial ports don’t work
• 11448 Ugly skins in FIFA08
• 11603 Cannot install Football Manager 2008 (FM08)
• 12592 Photoshop CS2: complains “Please log in using an account with administrator privileges and try again”
• 13437 Eudora 7.1.0.9 can’t open attachments
• 13484 Last Half of Darkness Shadows of The Servants runs slow
• 13486 Having CPU switch frequency dynamically (powersave daemon), Prince of Persia (potentially more apps?) runs way too fast
• 16571 Add support for more than one back buffer
• 17138 FlightGear does not display 3d models
• 18272 S103 main window does not redraw after activity is finished
• 18579 Photoshop CS4 error in automate/merge HDR and photomerge
• 20493 Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper DEMO (CZ): Crash when closing the game
• 20716 Dragon Age: DLC tabs are all empty
• 20838 Morrowind Graphics Extender’s d3d8.dll replacement fails to load
• 20847 Touhou Hisoutenskou crashes in deck construction/end of battle
• 21177 EVE-Online Voice don’t work
• 22577 PdfEdit995 doesn’t work
• 22747 µTorrent: The update message from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 does not show properly some characters
• 23346 Pioneer Avic Feeds v2.1.0 crashes after language selection
• 23393 Text rendered with background color same as foreground (so invisible) in Moon Tycoon
• 24799 Easyworship 2009 crashes on exit
• 26246 Impulse doesn’t work with mono
• 26370 Visual C++ 2005 Trial install shows spurious dialog box
• 26765 x86_64 OS should not be selectable on a 32-bit system
• 26944 taskkill needs to handle both / and – switches
• 27242 Wiggles: Error at starting the game.
• 27644 MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World v1.23 demo hangs indefinitely after nation selection
• 27683 4nec2x: error message and crash when opening 3d window for second time
• 27725 Visio 2007 : Getting started is missing icons
• 27777 Office 2003 apps fail to print graphics with builtin gdiplus
• 27837 E-Bundle Transcript Viewer: crashes when opening a supported file
• 27914 Simple Screenshot Code doesn’t work
• 28007 Microsoft Visio 2003 fails to save files and gives a Disk Full Error
• 28127 Ubisoft Game Laucher Installation fails within dlls/oleaut32/variant.c:659
• 28154 AutoIt v3.x ‘Inputbox’ function fails to display dialog with edit field (MonitorFromRect called with rect {Left=0,Top=0,Right=-1,Bottom=-1})
• 28869 Neverwinter Nights fails to load
• 28939 Notepad2: page fault when saving or opening files
• 29034 Blackberry Device Manager 6.1 fails to install
• 29098 LabVIEW 2010 demo downloader: switching virtual desktop causes the window to disappear
• 29195 Microsoft Word Viewer crashes on opening files in Word 201x formats which require download of format converters
• 29230 Steam client crash on select “news” tab
• 29311 FirstClassClient 12205 settings problem
• 29757 Burraconline Client 4.53 reports error “BurracoClient has encountered a user-defined breakpoint”
• 29781 Password Gorilla 1.5.3.6 fails on startup with error: “couldn’t find Itcl_Init”
• 30114 native msvcp100 crashes during Eve Online Startup (Testserver – Build 348561)
• 30306 Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn launcher is badly drawn
• 30577 Spartan demo: badly displayed main menu screen, mostly black
• 31068 Gómez Pear Fish C++ error
• 31371 Counter Strike: Source won’t run on wine 1.5.9
• 31820 GomezPEER Bug 26944 causes a Wineserver crash
• 32049 Pirate101 launcher fails while downloading game on initial run
• 32099 Adventure Game Studio 3.2 Crashes on start with C++ Runtime Error
• 32139 MetaTrader 5 unable to remember account details
• 32140 MetaTrader 5 never receives chart data
• 32167 RebelBetting remains in memory when closed
• 32714 EVE Online client crashes / fails to load when play is selected from Launcher
• 33163 Luncher.exe failure of MMORPG game EVE Online_466518
• 33514 Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 wants setupapi.SetupDiDestroyDriverInfoList
• 33637 Eve Online launcher hangs
• 33892 IRecordInfo::RecordCopy() is broken
• 34050 World of Warplanes moo::rc().drawindexedprimitive, failed
• 34063 Adobe CS4 installer is painfully slow
• 34193 Palm Desktop 4.1.4 and HotSync Manager installer crashes
• 34335 MetaTester 5 agents do not always start
• 34366 Photoshop CS2 fails at the “initializing tools” windows
• 34407 Multi Theft Auto 1.3 loader fails to initialize core infrastructure in GTA:SA process (msvcrt string collation check fails)
• 34409 WinZip 7: crashes when extracting a zip archive
• 34474 Slow mouse cursor in Age of Empires 1 & 2 with winemac compared to X11
• 34630 Some games don’t detect the correct number of display drivers (graphic cards) and their names
• 34878 Games requiring DirectDrawRenderer set to GDI (winetricks ddr=gdi) are black screen after 1.7.2
• 35014 Microsoft Server Express 2005, installing gets ‘err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection’
• 35181 Path of Exile crashes at startup
• 35202 A Strange Dream (Knytt Stories expansion) fails to install without native msvcp60
• 35280 Dracula 4 (The Shadow of the Dragon) freezes when starting a new game (using built-in msvcr100)
• 35284 Polar WebSync client 2.8.x fails to communicate with ‘polard’ service (WS2_AcceptEx with zero ‘local_addr_len’ parameter)
• 35313 ‘NAN’ undeclared [dlls/d3dx9_36/tests]
• 35347 VST plugins crash on LMMS
• 35388 League of legends graphical issues
• 35405 NoLimits Coaster 2, Direct3D not supported
• 35408 demoscene fr-038: theta crashes (affect multiple games: Anarchy Online, Tomb Raider, GTA)
• 35410 Gómez Peer: Java runtime crashes and loops in WinXP mode
• 35414 EVE Online crashes on window resize
• 35447 Divinity II – DKS demo: fails to start with an exception.
• 35464 Prefix creation occasionally reports user32 driver loading failure
• 35482 ProPresenter 4.x (.NET 3.5 WPF app) installer needs WshShortcut_put_Arguments
• 35483 cannot install game imvu
• 35494 Mala Ksiegowosc crashes starting
• 35520 UltraMon 3.2.2 installer fails due to unimplemented function ole32.dll.CoGetInstanceFromFile