New Version Of The Open Source Implementation Of The Windows API Wine

July 4, 2009 by Hawq

Do you use Linux but want to try out Windows stuff from time to time without dual booting? if the answer is yes then give this a try, personally I use Windows so can’t say much about it so I’ll let the news do the talking:

A ton of translation updates.

Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad.

Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL.

Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically.

Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementation.

Various bug fixes.

5720 addr_to_linear Failed to linearize address, etc.

7229 Using sound in WoW causes a lockup

7949 Quicktest Pro 8.2 fails to start up

8690 Display Error with CyclingPeaks WKO

9256 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Major slowdown near anomalies or in high RAD areas

9944 Cannot active Microsoft Office 2003 Over the telephone

10277 Uninstalling software does not remove them from Programs menu

10688 PSP 7.0 installation blows up

11223 uTorrent 1.8 alpha not working - GetBestInterfaceEx problem

11492 Perfect world entering world wait infinite

12492 Farcry on steam does not start

12615 EVE Online: Space textures are replaced with some other things from video-memory

13130 Sound in Nightlong only working every couple of starts

13204 winealsa.drv makes incorrect assumptions about hardware

13335 Wine virtual memory exhaustion causing OpenGL crashes / slowdowns

13706 Mankind encounters a page fault on startup

14000 Everquest2 - unable to find a suitable iPixel Format with ATI

14012 CodeWright crashes

14182 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne installer crashes

14239 Sonos Desktop Controller: Crashes clicking in the Music Library list

14555 Tool-tip glitch in The Curse of Monkey Island

14794 Crash when starting Yahoo Messenger 8

15484 Respondus Lockdown browser fails to launch

15534 Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 crashes occasionally with seh error

15742 eMule: Missing text in the information box

16386 FAR crashes with Unimplemented KERNEL32.dll.GetConsoleAliasW

16827 Secret Maryo Chronicles: Won’t install.

16864 Rendering of main character is wrong

17253 Luka: exits soon after start

17318 winemenubuilder fails to create proper menu structure

17618 winecfg does not set drive type correctly for Local Hard Disk choice

17706 EVE Premium and Geforce 6200: FPS drops to 0 during Warp

18006 Mp3tag: Crash when using Tag Sources feature

18192 Notepad can only save in current locale encoding, should be able to save in unicode

18208 crypt32.dll.CryptRegisterOIDInfo needed for Microsoft Font Validator (installer)

18412 Lord of the Rings Online, image upside down and more

18583 Free Realms crashes with unimplemented D3DXGetDeclVertexSize

18688 Ventrilo crashes on startup

18806 3Dmark 2006

18831 Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria post-processing misplaces objects

18893 Oblivion installation crashed with an uncought exception

18953 UFO Aftermath installer exits with error

18956 Intel Xorg: no more 3D since default OffscreenRenderingMode is fbo

18980 Canon’s CONSOLE Image Control & Storage Software fails on administrator privs check

18984 Free&Easy Font Viewer crashes on startup

19002 Postal 2 - graphics problems

19009 Crosstests don’t compile with CROSSCC=”ccache i586-mingw32msvc-gcc”

19014 Casino Club crashes when typing in login-box

19022 BibleStudyPro: text does not display on screen

19024 No WM_MEASUREITEM received on LV creation (LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED)

19045 winecfg: drive list is not refreshed in winecfg, no more disk label

19050 PE explorer shows access violations when started

19055 Various apps quit with “bad file descriptor” error

19065 3dmark06: shader doesn’t compile with arb shader backend

19069 Nestopia crashes

19071 Reg.exe doesn’t error out on invalid input (appinstall)

19079 Add multiple files dialog does not work.

19094 Regression on OS X, may not be able to load dll

19096 iexplore’s gecko installer broken

19119 Quice.exe program no longer starts

19126 VS 2005 SP1 installation failure