Wine 1.9.18 Improves Support for No Man's Sky, Fallout 4 & Microsoft Office 2010

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It also supports multiple kernel drivers in a single process

A new development release of the popular Wine open-source and cross-platform software for running Windows applications and games on any GNU/Linux or Mac OS X operating system has been announced.

While not a stable build, Wine 1.9.18 is the most advanced version, bringing numerous changes and new features like support for multiple kernel drivers in a single process, better WebServices reader support, enhanced joystick support, as well as improved Graphics Device Interface (GDI) performance.

Moreover, Wine 1.9.18 comes with additional work for the upcoming Direct3D command stream, various improvements to IME (Input Method Editors) window handling, and compatibility fixes for the built-in clipboard support. Of course, numerous Windows games and apps received bugfixes as well in the new Wine development release.

Fallout 4, Necropolis, and Tropico 5 were improved

Among the Windows games that received improvements in Wine 1.9.18, we can mention Fallout 4, Tropico 5, Necropolis, Fable: The Lost Chapters, SAS: Secure Tomorrow, Mob Ties Tokyo, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA, Star Wars Republic Commando, Spartan Demo, Wings of Vi, Need For Speed: The Run, We Happy Few, Magic Duels, and No Man's Sky.

On the other hand, Wine 1.9.18 brings better support for the Microsoft Office 2000 Server Extensions Configuration Wizard, Microsoft Office 2010, Nabeta Jisho for Japanese, YY and Netease POPO for Chinese, SmartMusic 2012/2014, Shim Database to XML, and MiTeC System Information X applications designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Of course, many other bugs reported by users since Wine 1.9.17 have been addressed in the new development release, which you can download right now, so check out the changelog below for details. When testing Wine 1.9.18, please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version towards Wine 2.0, the next stable branch of the software, which means that some issues are still present.

Wine 1.9.18 Changelog

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22461  Microsoft Office 2000 Server Extensions Configuration Wizard 'CFGWIZ.EXE' needs msvcirt.dll?cout@@3Vostream_withassign@@A
  25105  Loading a 3d model with a test program fails
  25352  Videos play upside down in multiple games (Fable: The Lost Chapters, Mob Ties Tokyo, Star Wars Republic Commando, SAS: Secure Tomorrow, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA)
  32936  SmartMusic 2012/2014 crashes on startup (Core Audio adapter 'PKEY_DeviceInterface_FriendlyName' property not supported)
  34056  Multiple applications have a problem with typing Chinese/Japanese with IME (Nabeta Jisho for Japanese, YY and Netease POPO for Chinese)
  35404  Spartan demo: no label on main menu icons
  35892  sdb2xml (.NET 2.0 app) crashes on unimplemented function apphelp.dll.SdbGetAppPatchDir
  39672  Folder names not clickable
  40106  ntdll:info regression
  40580  TASCAM US-16x08 soundcard controller crashes
  40686  win7's ehshell.exe needs KERNEL32.dll.EncodeSystemPointer
  40716  osu! - slightly low-pitched sound when using the ALSA sound driver
  40741  Wings of Vi - black screen on launch
  40953  Necropolis crashes at start (needs native xinput1_3.dll)
  40968  Multiple Games require dxgi_output_FindClosestMatchingMode implementation(Need For Speed: The Run, Magic Duels)
  40997  Fallout 4 needs DXGI_FORMAT_BC7_UNORM_SRGB
  41007  Regression in minimum sound latency / HelBuflen value
  41094  comctl32/treeview: TVS_FULLROWSELECT style does not work
  41105  Tropico 5 (DX11) starts with only a mouse pointer on a black screen
  41117  Insufficient check for sysinfo function breaks build on hurd and kfreebsd
  41118  We Happy Few (UE4) crashes with "D3DRHI->GetFactory()->CreateSwapChain(DXGIDevice,&SwapChainDesc,SwapChain.GetInitReference())"
  41165  MiTeC System Information X needs unimplemented function wlanapi.dll.WlanCloseHandle
  41182  Don't export QT_QPA_PLATFORM
  41189  No Man's Sky fails to start due to a regression in ntdll
  41228  Rendering is messed up on WineD3D8 for Windows
  41246  Office 2010 apps show "Configuring" dialog on first run when installed in new prefix

 

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