Wine 1.9.15 Has Patches for Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne and Kings Quest 8

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It also adds more shader instructions in Direct3D

Wine 1.9.15 has been made available for download for GNU/Linux users who want to run various Windows games and applications on their favorite distributions, along with Wine-Staging 1.9.15.

With 22 fixes on board for various Windows apps and games (see below for details), Wine 1.9.15 introduces more shader instructions in Direct3D, adds performance improvements to GDI, improves the Active Scripting support, injects extra stream support in the C++ runtime, and offers better multi-joystick support on macOS.

Among the Windows games that received improvements in the Wine 1.9.15 release, which is the latest development snapshot of the free implementation of Windows on Unix, we can mention Kings Quest 8, Metacell Demo, Tesla Effect, Bloodrayne 1 and 2, Aliens vs. Triangles Demo, Gauntlet, Max Payne Demo, and Alone in the Dark.

Slow screen update issues were fixed for Kirikiri-based games

Additionally, if you encounter slow screen update issues with various Kirikiri-based games, you should know that Wine 1.9.15 adds a workaround for that. As for the Windows apps that received fixes in the new Wine development release, we can mention Info-ZIP 3.0, Scottrade Elite 2013, GOG Galaxy, Kingsoft Office 2012, Nook eReader 2.5.3.4630, and mIRC.

Last but not least, Wine 1.9.15 adds the scripting host 'WScript.Quit' implementation to various Windows applications that use VBScript or JScript. Other than that, there are a few other small changes, so if you're curious to know what exactly has been fixed, we recommend that you study the full changelog below.

In the meantime, please make sure that you apply the Wine 1.9.15 update on your GNU/Linux operating system if you want to run any of the Windows applications and games mentioned above. Download Wine right now if you want to compile them yourself.

Wine 1.9.15 Changelog

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2905 Kings Quest 8 crashes while loading a saved game
14821 Kirikiri based games update screen slowly 21891 info zip 3.0 won't append to existing archive
33225 Metacell demo can't play music in mp3 format
36653 Tesla Effect (game): Video sequences display green screen.
37361 Scottrade Elite 2013 fails data streaming after about 90% of logins
37429 Post provider setup of WMI core 1.5 installer needs advapi32.dll.WmiQueryGuidInformation stub
37977 Multiple applications using VBScript/JScript need scripting host 'WScript.Quit' implementation 38475 Unused variable in glsl_shader.c
38997 Non-deterministic device id assignment when using more than one joystick/gamepad (multiplayer). Unable to deactivate joystick through registry or wine control applet
39845 Randomly "WinMorse2.exe" doesn't work under Wine.
40760 GOG Galaxy crashes with unimplemented function vcruntime140.dll.set_unexpected
40764 Bloodrayne 1-2 hang when playing videos
40822 Aliens vs. Triangles demo needs WINED3DFMT_R32_SINT format
40861 Kingsoft Office 2012 needs ntoskrnl.exe.IoAttachDevice 40872 Gauntlet requires dcl_immediateConstantBuffer support
40887 Nook eReader 2.5.3.4630 needs ncrypt.dll.NCryptOpenStorageProvider
40915 Max Payne demo installer displays highlighted text
40923 Alone in the Dark (2008) crashes on launch with msvcrt assertion
40932 [GAME] RAN GS crashes when starting (needs msvcp90.dll.?_Random_device@tr1@std@@YAIXZ)
40939 dlls/msvcr100 - error building on NetBSD
40959 mIRC: Crash on running code to see if mIRC is running in Wine.

 

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