Monday, November 16, 2015
Wine 1.7.31 released with Gecko Engine & Visual Studio 2013 Support
Alexandre Julliard officially announces the release of Wine 1.7.31 with new changes and fixes. As you know that Wine is software which allows you to run Windows applications on Linux and Mac systems. Like as usual, this release also includes fixes for Windows Games to run properly on Linux and Mac system along with fixing of Windows app for Linux system.
According to official announcement, Wine 1.7.31 comes with new version of Gecko engine which is based on Mozilla Firefox 34 and also provides support for the Visual Studio 2013 version of the C/C++ runtimes. It also includes more font metrics support in DirectWrite along with some more Direct2D work along with seveark other bugfixes. You can also download the source tarball of Wine 1.7.31 to compile it on your Linux machines.
Among other fixes, Wine 1.7.31 includes fixed GRE Powerprep software crashes, fixed Microsoft Jet which was failed to install, fixed startup issue of Skype 6.6, fixed warhammer which faces issue of dark omen doesn't launch. The issue of Adobe Bridge CS2 compalins that it can't start due to licensing restrictions is now corrected. We have also enlisted some of the fixed below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
List of Bugfixes Made in Wine 1.7.31
- Microsoft Crimson Skies crashes after startup.
- ShipSimulator 2008 freezes after start playing (needs d3dx9_36.D3DXCreatePolygon).
- chaostheory music lack of drums.
- OpenGL anti-aliasing capabilities of graphics driver not exposed to Google Sketchup 7/8 (needs WGL_SWAP_COPY_ARB support).
- Hinterland fails to run, wine reports Unhandled page fault to NULL.
- wine gets some wrong charcodes on some keyboard mappings.
- Wine serial-handling consumes 100% CPU when using USB->Serial-converter.
- WoW 4.x D3D: Player shadow broken with orm=backbuffer.
- Alien Swarm: Can't join or create game, game hangs.
- Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Dark foreground graphics.
- Unable to start qm.exe from state-machine.com website on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
- EasyCash & Tax crashes when executing "Select New Datadirectory" menu entry.
- Virtual Sailor 7 settings screen: boats and scenery options are unavailable.
- FUEL: Abandoned Vehicles Do Not Appear where they should.
- MiPony crashes after startup with null pointer access in fire_event.
These are some of the fixes which are made in Wine 1.7.31 release. If you wish to check out complete list of fixes made in Wine 1.7.31 then you must visit their official changelog page.
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According to official announcement, Wine 1.7.31 comes with new version of Gecko engine which is based on Mozilla Firefox 34 and also provides support for the Visual Studio 2013 version of the C/C++ runtimes. It also includes more font metrics support in DirectWrite along with some more Direct2D work along with seveark other bugfixes. You can also download the source tarball of Wine 1.7.31 to compile it on your Linux machines.
Among other fixes, Wine 1.7.31 includes fixed GRE Powerprep software crashes, fixed Microsoft Jet which was failed to install, fixed startup issue of Skype 6.6, fixed warhammer which faces issue of dark omen doesn't launch. The issue of Adobe Bridge CS2 compalins that it can't start due to licensing restrictions is now corrected. We have also enlisted some of the fixed below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
List of Bugfixes Made in Wine 1.7.31
- Microsoft Crimson Skies crashes after startup.
- ShipSimulator 2008 freezes after start playing (needs d3dx9_36.D3DXCreatePolygon).
- chaostheory music lack of drums.
- OpenGL anti-aliasing capabilities of graphics driver not exposed to Google Sketchup 7/8 (needs WGL_SWAP_COPY_ARB support).
- Hinterland fails to run, wine reports Unhandled page fault to NULL.
- wine gets some wrong charcodes on some keyboard mappings.
- Wine serial-handling consumes 100% CPU when using USB->Serial-converter.
- WoW 4.x D3D: Player shadow broken with orm=backbuffer.
- Alien Swarm: Can't join or create game, game hangs.
- Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Dark foreground graphics.
- Unable to start qm.exe from state-machine.com website on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
- EasyCash & Tax crashes when executing "Select New Datadirectory" menu entry.
- Virtual Sailor 7 settings screen: boats and scenery options are unavailable.
- FUEL: Abandoned Vehicles Do Not Appear where they should.
- MiPony crashes after startup with null pointer access in fire_event.
These are some of the fixes which are made in Wine 1.7.31 release. If you wish to check out complete list of fixes made in Wine 1.7.31 then you must visit their official changelog page.
Keep reading and stay tuned with us to get latest software updates. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.
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