Software Update: Wine 3.4

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 3.4. 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 25,329 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• More Vulkan support, including integration with the X11 driver.
• Better handling of privileged instructions on x86-64.
• Hex edit dialog improvements in RegEdit.
• Assortment of patches merged from wine staging.

Bugs fixed in 3.4 (total 45):

• 10744: Robot Arena main menu is extremely slow
• 24436: the ping command with a wine cmd does nothing
• 25138: Black and White 2 demo crashes on startup (ID3DXEffect interface changes between d3dx9_xx versions)
• 29774: Texture filtering doesn’t work in nGlide
• 32104: KwMusic: crashes during installing
• 32699: Add StartupWMClass to .desktop files.
• 35910: TuneUp Utilities 2014 installer crashes (API signature mismatch for NtAllocateUuids)
• 37809: C runtime dlls can’t link with uclibc (bessel functions missing)
• 38352: Multiple games need d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXComputeNormalMap (Foresight, Gamestudio Venice, GOG King Arthur Collection)
• 38626: Word 2010 image text mode wrapping menu hides after a few seconds
• 38919: HyperStudio 5 (.NET 4.0 app) hangs at splash screen (‘PngDecoder_Frame_GetMetadataQueryReader’ is a stub)
• 39209: Smart Diary Suite 4 crashes when updating options (‘CLSID_AudioCompressorCategory’, ‘{33D9A761-90C8-11d0-BD43-00A0C911CE86}’ must be treated as special category)
• 40539: Fail to start HPDiagnosticCoreUI.exe
• 40943: System Shock demo (DX 11): loads to a white screen then switches to a black screen
• 41096: ResEdit Resources treeview has rendered wrongly positioned first branch
• 41911: Multiple Microsoft applications need kernel32.FindNLSSringEx (Studio One 3, Microsoft Office 2016, PowerShell 6)
• 42768: Ys: The Ark of Napishtim (Ys 6) silently crashes playing in-game videos
• 43357: Stars in Shadow crashes on startup
• 43656: 64-bit World of Warcraft client reports ‘Game Initialization Failed!’ or crashes on startup with stack overflow due to improper mapping of exception code
• 43828: The Witcher 3: some monsters have distorted surfaces sticking out
• 44053: MobilePASS application quits with an error, needs unimplemented function bcrypt.dll.BCryptImportKey
• 44071: SPFLite Editor crashes on nullpointer
• 44482: x64dbg crashes during exit on unimplemented function msvcp120.dll.??0_Runtime_object@details@Concurrency@@QEAA@XZ
• 44499: BattlEye ‘BEDaisy’ kernel service crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.PsSetCreateProcessNotifyRoutineEx
• 44515: assert from wxpython
• 44550: ReactOS ftp.exe: enters endless loop on CTRL-Z
• 44565: Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone has rendering issue
• 44570: explorer.exe crashes when opening relative paths
• 44616: Multiple Blizzard games need ‘ntdll.NtCreateThreadEx’ implementation (Diablo III v2.6.1.49286+, World of Warcraft, Overwatch)
• 44617: Multiple Blizzard games need Win7+ ‘user32.GetWindowDisplayAffinity’ and ‘user32.SetWindowDisplayAffinity’ stubs (Diablo III v2.6. 1.49286+)
• 44619: Multiple 64-bit applications need various Win7+ user-mode scheduling (UMS) API stubs (x64dbg, ACDSee Pro 9.0)
• 44626: AvP Classic 2000 (Steam) launcher crashes when attempting to start the game
• 44641: Sentinel HASP ‘hardlock.sys’ kernel driver crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlCreateRegistryKey
• 44643: akai midimix editor application crashes on start
• 44647: Smart Diary Suite 4 just segfaults
• 44654: EDIdEv Framework EDI Runtime installer fails due to ‘sfc.SfcGetNextProtectedFile’ not setting last-error code
• 44657: Wine-3.3 no longer compiles when configured without kerberos (–without-krb5)
• 44659: TeamViewer crashes on start
• 44668: Intel Asteroids DirectX 12 Sample requires NInput.dll
• 44676: Two Worlds crashes (hangs) when saving the game (anti-aliasing enabled)
• 44701: xinput console spam with steam
• 44707: Sigcheck v2.60 crashes on unimplemented function CRYPT32.dll.CryptSIPRetrieveSubjectGuidForCatalogFile
• 44717: Bermuda (Steam, Indie game) crashes due to ‘msscript.ocx’ ‘ScriptControl_put_AllowUI’ being a stub
• 44736: incorrect module loading order
• 44749: Sentinel HASP ‘hardlock.sys’ kernel driver expects ntdll.RtlCheckRegistryKey to return STATUS_SUCCESS on empty path