Software Update: Wine 1.7.16

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.7.16. 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 exactly 21,168 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:

• More regression test fixes.
• String arrays better supported in the IDL compiler.
• Initial stubs for DirectX Video Acceleration.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.16 (total 50):

• 11114 World in Conflict complains with “No appropriate 3D graphics card detected” (b3DAccelerationExists and b3DAccelerationEnabled dxdiagn properties missing)
• 12388 Commands 3: read_from_framebuffer_texture error (glCopyTexSubImage2D)
• 15133 Application blocks waiting for a critical section during startup. This problem does not occur in Windows.
• 17440 Anarchy Online: Fog bug introduced between v. 1.1.11 and 1.1.13
• 19269 Distant impostors does not work in Lord of the Rings Online
• 20466 Multiple broken apps and games with incorrect TLS usage crash on startup (TLS slot index allocation must start at non-zero indexes (Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, ProShow Gold 5/6)
• 21576 Touch screen loses calibration when in full screen mode – specifically AtomixMP3.exe
• 21956 Empire Earth 1.00 and 1.04 crash with unhanded page fault
• 22016 RUSE Public Beta in-game rendering is washed out
• 23601 Windows Movie Maker 2.6 reports ‘A new collections file cannot be created’ (needs ‘Microsoft’ folder in CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA)
• 24702 Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 DEMO: shows black screen with stars and never load
• 25727 Dead Space resolution issues
• 25780 MS Works 9.0 can’t find license terms
• 25914 Dead Space 2 exits with error
• 27625 Panzer General 3D Demo: second scenario fails to load
• 27797 No sound in FMOD games (Gratuitous Space Battles demo, Armored Brigade)
• 27900 Miranda IM v0.9.25 group chats are broken
• 28571 Saving file in Rockwell Arena Simulator causes crash.
• 29003 T4C: Crashes during or after patching phase
• 29875 MS Works 9.0 can’t install (infinite waiting for estimating time)
• 29968 Final Fantasy XI crashes when unfocused in windowed mode
• 30079 Broken Sword – The Sleeping Dragon: Graphics corruption
• 31079 Fatal error during Stronghold Crusader Demo installation
• 31433 Foxit Reader 5.3.1.0606 crashes on startup
• 32245 Multiple applications crash on startup due to unimplemented function shell32.dll.SHExtractIconsW
• 32835 Batman: Arkham Asylum (non-Steam) Demo fails on startup (IWbemClassObject::GetNames with qualifier unsupported)
• 33603 Metro: Last Light crash after several minutes
• 33732 Broken non-PCM audio playback in Microsoft Sound Recorder
• 34352 Multiple applications need ‘Network Configuration Component Object’, CLSID ‘{5b035261-40f9-11d1-aaec-00805fc1270e}’ (CommView, iNodeSetup 3.60)
• 34668 Age of Empires Trial version only gives a black screen
• 35064 Daemon Tools Lite crashes after opening
• 35112 LA Noire 1.3 (Steam version) fails to start, claiming “DX94: Graphics card capabilities are below the minimum specifications.” (wined3d clamps device caps MaxVertexIndex to 0xFFFFF)
• 35359 Compass-3D v14 installer fails
• 35474 ‘Das Fussball Studio’ (VB6 based german soccer league db app) reports Run-time error ‘445’ (needs IFile::OpenAsTextStream)
• 35550 Horizon (Steam) needs msvcp100.dll.?_Random_device@tr1@std@@YAIXZ
• 35555 Drakan Demo doesn’t show the name of the display driver (the problem is in GetDeviceIdentifier when it is _not_ passed the DDGDI_GETHOSTIDENTIFIER flag)
• 35678 Defiance patcher crashes on start (gdiplus/GdipDrawImagePointsRect)
• 35786 Incorrect behavior in printf with 0 value on “%#x”
• 35802 OneNote 2013 installer needs KERNEL32.dll.SetWaitableTimerEx
• 35809 Avoid deletion of precious (empty) folders such as ‘%USERPROFILE%\\Application Data’ during MSI product upgrades/uninstalls
• 35818 mscms/profile tests fail on Fedora
• 35825 Mortal Online (MMORPG) client 1.75.00.07 displays garbled buttons/images with builtin gdiplus
• 35827 Corel PaintShop Pro X6 v16.2 installer crashes on startup (‘text/jscript’ type not recognized when converting to script GUID)
• 35833 iTunes 7 installer aborts early (automation methods HRESULT incorrectly translated to VBScript runtime Err.number)
• 35838 MS Works 9.0 word processor crashes on startup (process heaps need to be 64K aligned)
• 35840 ‘Das Fussball Studio’ (VB6 based german soccer league db app) reports Run-time error ‘445’ (needs ITextStream ReadAll method implementation)
• 35867 Multiple applications need support for INetCfgLock, CLSID ‘{c0e8ae93-306e-11d1-aacf-00805fc1270e}’ (CommView, iNodeSetup 3.60)
• 35888 Stahlschlüssel 2007 no CD in drive warning
• 35891 sdb2xml and native setupapi override crash on unimplemented function apphelp.dll.SdbInitDatabase
• 35908 Regedit has wrong letter view in title bar with a desktop mode