Software Update: Wine 1.7.9

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.7.9. 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 20,849 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:

• Improved window moving/resizing in the Mac driver.
• Some DirectDraw palette fixes.
• Reduced code duplication between C++ runtime versions.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.9 (total 47):

• 8320 DirectInput joystick timestamps are wrong
• 10844 Need for Speed ​​2 demo fails on startup, claiming “insufficient memory”
• 11919 foobar2000 with foo_facets.dll: clicking popup menu item to display facets pane/view does nothing
• 12503 Firefox with Oracle/Sun JRE 6/7 Java plugin fails the verification website of Java
• 14740 Combat Arms 3.7 installer html-based UI layout is distorted
• 14783 Cannot closed WMP 9 after minimizing.
• 17715 Incorrect translation of D3D asm instruction “expp”
• 17784 Runscape (web-based Java game) fails to terminate upon user request
• 19959 Rome Total War loading screen has incorrect colors, rendered twice
• 20354 Sony Vegas has encountered an Error: ‘WIA-Manager could not be initialized’
• 21054 Platform SDK 2003 web installer download unreliable
• 21755 Heroes of Might and Magic V demo doesn’t run
• 23472 PokerStars crashes/UI remains unresponsive on startup
• 23748 Need for Speed ​​Shift demo: movies repeat until you press Enter
• 23502 Need for Speed ​​Shift demo: slow frame rate on showroom floor
• 24167 Boxes are not drawn in Double Dragon Forever
• 24328 Filter Forge 2 demo fails to launch with error: ::GetScrollInfo failed. (ExeCryptor Protection)
• 24600 Saira: some fonts are messed up
• 24819 Grand Ages: Rome installer: “Couldn’t get the string value for the game tasks folder”
• 25248 Brothers in Arms Road to Hill Demo needs msvcr71.__security_error_handler
• 26541 Dragon Saga crashes randomly on startup (needs ntdll.DbgUiConvertStateChangeStructure, ntdll.KiRaiseUserExceptionDispatcher, ntdll.NtSetDebugFilterState stub exports)
• 26668 Language macros are not defined during an .rc file compilation
• 27850 Severe graphic issues in Need for Speed ​​Hot Pursuit II
• 28001 ExeCryptor protected apps/games complain with ‘Clock manipulation detected!’ (World War One Gold demo, Universal Mechanic)
• 28440 Deus Ex Invisible War installer sometimes asks for non-existent disk 0
• 28487 [Halo CE Trial] X Error bad value: XF86VidModeGetGammaRamp
• 29290 Ubisoft – The Settlers: Rise of Cultures – disc authentication
• 29550 PaintTool SAI installer complains about missing administrator rights (Wine defaults to NTFS for unknown fs type, FSCTL_GET_NTFS_VOLUME_DATA support needed)
• 30717 Janetter crashes on startup (ISWbemLocator interface/stub missing)
• 31039 Visual C++ 2005 Express SP1 install fails
• 32762 Worms Forts Under Siege crashes on startup (Safedisc v4.0000)
• 33342 Blur: rear view upside down with backbuffer ORM
• 33301 World of Warplanes Downloader crashed
• 33895 Tomb Raider 2013 mouse does not work with the changes made to the winemac.drv in the version 1.5.30
• 33963 WINE Wordpad crashes when selecting text from line end to line start
• 34294 64-bit SMPlayer 0.8.6 installer claims “64-bit Windows Operating system is required to install this software”
• 34327 Adobe Acrobat X Pro/Standard installer fails to extract files (insufficient directory permissions)
• 34713 Treasure Adventure Game: dialogue text unreadable
• 34902 Ableton Live 9 Suite v9.0.x (64-bit) crashes on startup, needs msvcr90.dll._vsprintf_l
• 35058 Lattice Diamond 2.2 Active-HDL crashes due to unimplemented function atl90.dll.AtlComModuleRevokeClassObjects
• 35067 Populous: The Beginning crashes on start in D3D mode
• 35109 LA Noire 1.3 (Steam version) crashes on startup
• 35122 NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit v5.5 installer fails, claiming “An unknown error has occurred.” (failure to return ‘url’ property from DOMDocument)
• 35144 NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit v5.5 installer fails (SetupDiGetINFClassW whitelists only ‘Chicago’, ignoring WINEPREFIX WinVer setting)
• 35149 RSA SecurID token v411 installer hangs during processing of EULA (large RTF passed twice: window text and richedit streamin callback)
• 35166 NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit v5.5 installer fails (NtQueryKey with KeyNameInformation info class unsupported on server side)
• 35178 FL Studio 11.x ‘DirectWave’ plugin doesn’t work (unsupported FSCTL_IS_VOLUME_MOUNTED ioctl)