Wine 2.6 Fixes Bugs for The Solus Project, Aliens vs. Predator, and No Man's Sky

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Wine 2.6 released

 

The Wine 2.6 development release was announced today, April 13, 2017, bringing another set of bug fixes for various Windows games and applications, along with some much-needed optimizations and features.

 

It's been two weeks since the launch of Wine 2.5, and among the prominent features brought by Wine 2.6, we can mention the implementation of multi-threaded command stream in Direct3D, improved font transformations in DirectWrite, additional support for 3D textures, and extra Shader Model 5 instructions.

 

As expected, various apps and games designed for Microsoft Windows operating systems received fixes. These include TNR MoonLight 2.31.122 (works incorrectly), StudioTax 2011 (crashes), Regedit, DevExpress .NET Installer, Neverwinter Online (crash with DirectX 11, broken graphics, etc.), World of Tanks 0.9.15, Bethesda.net Launcher, and Train Fever.

 

Wine 2.6 is here to fix a total of 25 bugs across various Windows games and apps. The list continues with the 32-bit version of The Witness game (black screen on start), Legacy of Kain: Defiance (crashes), Ri-li 2.0.1 (no window content), Rogue Operatives (white screen in game with HUD), The Solus Project, 0 A.D., BeamNG.drive, and Aliens vs. Predator (2010).

 

The World of Warships, No Man's Sky (GOG), Gal*Gun: Double Peace, and Witcher 3 games also work better with Wine 2.6, whose source tarball you can download right now from our website if you fancy compiling it on your GNU/Linux distribution. However, please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, not suitable for use in production environments. The full changelog is attached below for more details on the bug fixes.

 

Wine 2.6 Changelog

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2624  In dialogs, an incorrect extra WM_ERASEBKGND is sent after WM_PAINT
  22220  TNR MoonLight 2.31.122 works incorrectly
  27638  combined hindi text like nna kra causes the keyboard cursor to go far off
  29997  StudioTax 2011 crashes during installation
  30684  Mono: GroupBox draws border line after text
  38213  Japanese vertical text incorrected
  39856  Regedit: Default registry key is not the same as on Windows
  40508  The Witness: black screen on start (32-bit version)
  40628  Multiple games need msvcr110.dll.?_Id@_CurrentScheduler@details@Concurrency@@SAIXZ (World of Tanks v0.9.15, Bethesda.net Launcher, Train Fever)
  40786  Legacy of kain Defiance to crashes when called by script
  41403  Ri-li 2.0.1: No window content shown (just title bar)
  41774  Rogue operatives - only white screen in game with HUD
  41995  Neverwinter Online broken graphics and game crash with DX11
  42352  The Solus Project: Backend can't handle opcode gather4
  42449  Multiple apps need function msvcr120.dll.fesetround (0 A.D., BeamNG.drive)
  42655  Aliens vs. Predator (2010) needs d3dx11_42.dll.D3DX11FilterTexture
  42707  World of Warships: Cannot display inventory and clan screens
  42736  scanf doesn't work as expected when using format string contains non-ascii chars
  42747  DevExpress .NET Installer needs function uiautomationcore.dll.UiaReturnRawElementProvider
  42748  Flickering, disappearing text in Steam client user interface (DirectWrite enabled)
  42762  Multiple 64-bit games no longer start with a seh unwind error (No Man's Sky (GOG), Witcher 3, Gal*Gun Double Peace)
  42774  WinHttpQueryAuthSchemes fails to return the correct supported value for multiple WWW-Authenticate
  42782  Wine iexplore crashes loading http://news.theraoffice.com
  42799  Neverwinter Online needs SM4 retc instruction
  42803  Large data received on a 401 error causes authentication to fail

 

 

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