Software Update: Wine 3.3

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 3.3. 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 25,294 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Beginnings of Vulkan support.
• Direct3D multi-threaded command stream enabled by default.
• Multisample textures enabled by default.
• Support for game controllers through SDL.
• Support for loading CIL-only .Net binaries.

Bugs fixed in 3.3 (total 35):

• 7284: Max Payne 2 light reflections on people are too bright and blocky
• 9914: Implement a Kerberos provider for SSPI
• 10347: Action Replay Code Manager crashes on start up
• 14336: BCG tooltips don’t display correctly (Foxit PDF Reader)
• 19508: Multiple games fail to start after CreateDCW(DIB or DIRDIB) error (Cosmology of Kyoto, Secret of the Luxor, Pingu, Pettson and Findus, many Click & Play games)
• 32186: Multiple kernel drivers crash on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.KeWaitForMultipleObjects (Franson VSerial service ‘bizvserialnt.sys’, VSphere 6.0 ‘hcmon.sys’)
• 32802: Janetter 4.1.1.0 fails to start properly and gives an error saying: “Backend server cannot init”
• 36143: Symantec Norton 360 installer reports ‘This product is not compatible with this computer’s current operating system’ (RtlVerifyVersionInfo doesn’t handle major/minor/service pack condition mask properly)
• 37025: Photo Renamer 3.x/4.x crashes on startup
• 37852: Sentinel HASP ‘hardlock.sys’ kernel driver custom imports resolver can’t cope with many ‘ntoskrnl.exe’ functions being fowarded to ‘ntdll.dll’ (Minitab 16 fails to start)
• 38661: 64-bit .NET CLR/managed executables can’t be run by Wine loader (entry point not set to mscoree.dll _CorExeMain/_CorDllMain)(Demoscene ‘Coronoid’, Rust, SIGMA Photo Pro 6)
• 39500: DRM kernel drivers used by some game demos crash on unimplemented function hal.dll.KeQueryPerformanceCounter (Secret Files: Tunguska, Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper)
• 39970: Bank perfect 8.0.0.373 defective
• 40002: Edit control is not repainted on focus change
• 42468: Broken msxml text nodes escaping
• 42592: The Witcher 3 has poor performance (buffer access flags are ignored)
• 42820: Multiple games (The Witness, Just Cause 2) require D3D11 multisample textures
• 42851: The BaiduMusic cannot be launched
• 43041: Multiple application installers crash due to missing message string for 0x800b0100 (TRUST_E_NOSIGNATURE) (CodeXL 2.3, RT Se7en Lite)
• 43351: x64dbg needs kernel32.dll CreateRemoteThreadEx in Win7+ mode
• 43520: Magic The Gathering Online – corrupted rendering of CMYK jpegs
• 43740: GenerateMips not implemented for d3d10 (Just Cause 2)
• 44255: Wolf RPG Editor: Game.exe zombifies upon quit
• 44265: Options dialog triggers exception upon close in Windows Media Player 6.4
• 44279: Wine can’t enumerate HID device that is based on Bluetooth (a Wiimote)
• 44460: Wine’s loader should prevent multiple executable mappings of images (dlls) backed by the same physical file (long path vs. short path)
• 44462: Stuttering/Low fps in Unigine Valley
• 44473: glyph overlap in Delphi editor
• 44486: Stack overflow in The Witness, The Witcher 3 (multisample texture location loading)
• 44542: Multiple Vista+ UAC-aware applications need support for execution level information in manifest data/activation context
• 44556: SYN_DROPPED undeclared on Linux < 2.6.39
• 44578: ShellDispatch::BrowseForFolder is not implemented
• 44593: Improve Wine loader diagnostic output for .NET (IL) applications in case of ‘mscoree.dll’ load failures
• 44628: BaiduMusic needs dwmapi.DwmSetIconicThumbnail (stub)
• 44636: Sentinel HASP ‘hardlock.sys’ kernel driver access to CR4 via %ESI register operand not handled in ntoskrnl emulate_instruction