Wine 2.4 Has Fixes for Aliens vs. Predator, The Next BIG Thing, and Nvidia GPUs

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Wine 2.4 released

 

The Wine 2.4 development release is now available for download continuing the road to the next major update of the free and open source implementation of Windows on Unix.

 

Wine 2.4 comes two weeks after the release of Wine 2.3 and ships with a built-in implementation of cryptographic hashes, an updated Mono engine that ports many upstream fixes, some additional Direct3D command stream work, various XML reader improvements, and simulated italic and bold support in the DirectWrite component. A total of 32 bugs have been fixed in the Wine 2.4 release.

 

More Windows apps and games work out of the box on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution. Among the improved apps, we can mention Kontact 5.6, Lotus Smartsuite 3.1, ACDSee Pro 9 (64-bit), ARC client, Xuzhou network client, Gómez PEER Zone, Polaris Office, Kontact 5.6, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Poedit, QuickBooks 5.0, and Native Instruments Native Access 1.0.25 (R37).

 

Improved Windows games, better Nvidia GeForce GT 525M support

The Secret Files 3 Demo, Aliens vs. Predator (2010, Steam), Rollcage Redux 1.3.8, The Next BIG Thing, Galactic Civ 3, DOOM, and Steep (Ubisoft) games should also work better on your Linux-based operating system, along with the BlueByte Game Channel, which should no longer fail to install. Wine 2.4 also recognizes Nvidia GeForce GT 525M graphics cards.

 

Below we've attached the full changelog if you're curious to know what bugs have been resolved, and you should also take a look at the official release notes. In the meantime, you can download the Wine 2.4 source tarball right now from our website if you want to install it on your GNU/Linux distro, or wait until it lands in the stable software repositories. Please update as soon as possible if you fancy running Windows games and apps on your Linux box.

 

Wine 2.4 Changelog

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10858  BlueByte Game Channel fails to install
  14371  cleanup undefined members in vartest
  29133  Gómez PEER fails to update
  30378  Xuzhou network client crashes at start
  33987  Secret Files 3 demo shows only some parts of background in ConfigTool
  36599  winhttp/tests/winhttp.c: test_secure_connection() fails under valgrind
  36600  valgrind shows a possible leak in winhttp/tests/winhttp.c
  36608  valgrind shows a definite leak in xmllite/tests/writer.c
  37436  Aliens vs. Predator (2010, Steam) crashes when loading save game
  38793  Lotus Smartsuite 3.1 installer reports insufficient disk space
  39685  Multiple applications crash on startup, need unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.??0event@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ (Rollcage Redux v1.3.8, ARC client, Playstation Now)
  40798  ACDSee Pro 9 (64-bit) needs msvcr120.dll.??0event@Concurrency@@QEAA@XZ
  40910  The Next BIG Thing can't save the game (needs native xmllite)
  41340  Unhandled page fault for Polaris Office Installer
  41472  kolotibablo needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeAcquireInStackQueuedSpinLock
  41684  unimplemented function uiautomationcore.dll.UiaClientsAreListening called in 32-bit code
  41832  Galactic Civ 3 - ships are not visible
  41951  Unimplemented function bcrypt.dll.BCryptDuplicateHash prevents DOOM from running
  42209  Native Instruments Native Access 1.0.25 (R37) crashes on unimplemented function concrt140.dll.??1_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ
  42239  Kontact 5.6 needs api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll._Wcsftime
  42450  Unimplemented copy from WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_RGB to WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_SRGB for depth/stencil buffers.
  42510  InternetOpenUrl does not send query parameters for HTTPS urls
  42557  NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M detected as GeForce GTX 470
  42559  Adobe Reader DC: No longer installs (Unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiGetComponentPathExW)
  42575  Multiple applications need msvcp140.dll.?_LogScheduleTask@_TaskEventLogger@details@Concurrency@@QAEX_N@Z
  42576  Poedit crashes on start on unimplemented function msvcp140.dll.?_Reset@_ContextCallback@details@Concurrency@@AAEXXZ
  42578  WSAStringToAddress fails to parse IP v6 addresses with port number
  42586  Adobe Reader DC crashes on startup (needs GetCurrentPackageFullName stub)
  42603  Steep (Ubisoft) needs iphlpapi.dll.NotifyUnicastIpAddressChange
  42625  Flushing file (int 0x21, ah=0x68) fails with access denied error in 16-bit code (affects QuickBooks 5.0)
  42639  Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x7eff5a34)
  42641  winetricks ie8_kb2936068 installer fails with error

 

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