Download Wine 1.9.6

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.9.6. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. A large group of developers contribute to Wine and it has been decided to release a new so-called development version every two weeks instead of waiting for a number of new functions to be ready. A stable edition is published a few times a year. The database with applications that work under Wine, with or without the help of minor adjustments, contains 23,198 titles at the time of writing. Below you will find everything that has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Better video card detection when using Mesa.
• Support for Shader Model 5 shaders.
• C++ exception handling improvements.

Bugs fixed in 1.9.6 (total 32):

• 17540: Zondervan Pradis 6.0 hangs due to ole32.dll.CoGetCurrentLogicalThreadId stub
• 21475: TI Interactive application fails when attempting to display the TI math palette
• 22533: Half-Life: Logo video rendering is wrong (msrle32 does not handle frames with 0 biClrUsed)
• 25086: Multiple games and applications need kernel32.GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx implementation (CPU-Z 1.72, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Adobe CC 2015, Kontakt 5)
• 28177: Adventure games from Kheops Studio hang after the logo screen (Safecracker, Destination: Treasure Island, Nostradamus: Lost Prophecy, Dracula 3, Return to Mysterious Island 2)
• 29458: Explorer sometimes crashes on drag-and-drop in folders accessed from “/”
• 32237: A slower speed of light: Summer 2012 version crashes after Intro
• 32314: Pikachu Volleyball (English version) crashes on restart
• 32827: Legrand XlPro 3 (MFC app) crashes on startup (failure to load registry-free COM servers via app hook, ‘OleCreate’ must ignore HRESULT or ‘IOleObject::GetMiscStatus’)
• 33787: IE8 crashes on new tab
• 34303: underlined 8 point Times New Roman text doesn’t display as underlined
• 35471: Telepone (MTSP FIM) needs msvcr100.dll._CreateFrameInfo
• 37949: eLicenser Control Center needs msvcr80.dll.__CxxRegisterExceptionObject
• 39239: ole32:compobj fails if privileges not high enough
• 39278: Multiple DirectX 10 games crash on unimplemented function d3d10_1.dll.D3D10CreateDeviceAndSwapChain1 (Assassin’s Creed)
• 39461: Garmin Homeport 2.2.9 crashes on unimplemented function msvcr90.dll.__CxxRegisterExceptionObject
• 39510: EZCastPro 1.4/1.5 crashes on unimplemented function USER32.dll.QueryDisplayConfig
• 39577: Fallout 4 needs WINED3DFMT_R11G11B10_FLOAT render target
• 39674: 3Dmark03, 05, 06 not started “System Info Error”
• 39797: The suffering does not start, needs wmasf.dll
• 39878: Diablo II does not start on 64bit system with more than 2GB VRAM cards
• 39918: Mail.Ru GameCenter installer does not work
• 40115: ole32:compobj regression (privilege issue)
• 40147: Assertion ‘m->state == STATE_PASSIVE’ failed at pulse/mainloop.c:827 on starting Skype 7.18.0.112
• 40190: 7z fails at enumerating network places
• 40201: EccoPro only works on Wine 1.6.2
• 40221: Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 needs user32.GetGestureConfig
• 40222: IMalloc(Spy)::Free nullptr
• 40246: Please document WINEBUILD in the winegcc manpage
• 40253: Build regression: Can’t remove fonts: is a directory (–with-wine64, shared wow64)
• 40287: steamwebhelper crashes in Windows 7 mode
• 40312: Please look for builtin *.fon fonts in fontdir