Software Update: Wine 1.7.49

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.7.49. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. 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 22,494 titles at the time of writing. Below you will find everything that has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• DirectWrite is now good enough for rendering text in Steam.
• A number of Direct2D improvements.
• Some more OpenMP functions.
• Support for namespaces in the IDL compiler.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.49 (total 31):

• 8277: Windows Sysinternals Process Explorer and other tools show zero thread start address (NtQueryInformationThread with ThreadQuerySetWin32StartAddress info class)
• 17044: Microsoft OneNote 2007 “Insert Audio Recording” doesn’t work
• 20521: Nocturnal Illusion crashes
• 22206: Mig Alley Flight Simulator (1999) crashes due to unimplemented msvcirt.dll.??0ios@@IAE@XZ
• 23407: Death to Spies Moment of Truth: character bodies (player and NPCs) are invisible
• 26379: Multiple games crash on unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXComputeNormals (Gamestudio Venice, Nvidia hdr demo, Fritz 11, XCOM, Cities XL)
• 27145: Weapons Translucent Like Glass in FEAR 1 and 2.
• 28916: Spellforce 2 Gold – wrong drawing order of surfaces
• 31051: HttpQueryInfo() erroneously ignores lpdwIndex argument for some info levels
• 31374: Steam text invisible with dwrite.dll enabled
• 31640: hugin’s enfuse.exe crashes without native vcomp100.dll (purist)
• 32637: Some VST plugins that used to work with dssi-vst now fail
• 33165: Star Conflict crash at startup
• 33724: Aliwangwang needs unimplemented function atl100.dll.AtlAxCreateControlLicEx
• 36087: SpinTires crashes when applying settings in windowed mode
• 36915: Among the Sleep crashes when starting a new game (Oculusplugin.dll needs to be disabled)
• 37583: Trion’s Glyph MMO manager crashes on unimplemented function msvcr110.dll.?_GetConcurrency@details@Concurrency@@YAIXZ
• 38004: Multiple games crashes with unimplemented function x3daudio1_7.dll.X3DAudioInitialize
• 38197: Singles 2 crash at start
• 38262: Warframe Update Fails!
• 38508: Multiple applications need ‘HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\MachineGuid’ registry key present (Wizard 101 UK downloader)
• 38613: Multiple games (Witcher3 Wild Hunt, Schein, The Emptiness) need vcomp110.dll
• 38828: Cerbero PE Insider 1.0.2 crashes on unimplemented function dbghelp.dll.UnDecorateSymbolNameW when viewing export directory
• 38861: Carbon Poker crashes at startup
• 38935: CocosStudio1.6 (.NET 4.0 app) crashes when starting (needs ‘Win32_DesktopMonitor’ WMI class with ‘PixelsPerXLogicalInch’ property)
• 38947: Cities XL Platinum crashes while loading to the menu, needs vcomp.dll._vcomp_for_dynamic_init
• 38949: Free Falcon 5.x/6.x configuration editor segfaults on start (loader must take invalid IMAGE_LOAD_CONFIG_DIRECTORY values ​​into account)
• 38989: ShowShifter (obsoleted A/V application) fails to start with built-in msvcp60
• 39008: Trion Worlds ‘Trove’ (Voxel MMO) crashes on startup (missing UTC timezone information)
• 39015: Steam crashes shortly after login when DirectWrite is enabled
• 39017: 64-bit Lexmark X2670 All-in-One printer driver installation fails (missing pragma pack directive in ‘digitalv.h’ causes structure layout mismatch between ‘MCI_DGV_OPEN_PARMSW’ and ‘MCI_OPEN_PARMSW’)