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The Wine Development Release 1.7.16 Is Now Available

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Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.16 brining many new features and as many as 50 bugfixes.

A new issue of World Wine News is also available: #366

The few most interesting features introduced in this release:
  • More regression test fixes.
  • String arrays better supported in the IDL compiler.
  • Initial stubs for DirectX Video Acceleration.
  • Various bug fixes.

  • To learn more about this release pleas visit this announcement.

    The source code for this release is available here:
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.16.tar.bz2
    http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.16.tar.bz2

    To get the most recent changes, a git repository is a good starting point.

    Binary packages should be available for a download as soon as the build process is finished.

    Check out Page 2 for the list of fixed bugs! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
    Tags: Open Source, Wine
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    4 comments

    mrdeathjr Apr 4, 2014
    Reporting from wine 1.7.16


    I test Assassins Creed Brotherhood Multiplayer with command: WINEDEBUG=-all wine steamfor both versiones of wine 1.7.15 and 1.7.16


    This is with Wine 1.7.15 + Nvidia 334.21

    View video on youtube.com


    And now with Wine 1.7.16 + Nvidia 334.21

    View video on youtube.com


    On this wine 1.7.16 + Nvidia 334.21 runs much better than wine 1.7.15 + Nvidia 334.21


    back to DXVA its only stubs, and now must be work on support, this take time


    ^_^
    Joe Apr 4, 2014
    Yay, #11114 is 6 years old and finally fixed :) World in Conflict is a great game. Let's hope GOG ports it to Linux sometime.
    mrdeathjr Apr 5, 2014
    And this results with farcry 3


    This is with Wine 1.7.15 + Nvidia 334.21

    View video on youtube.com


    And now with Wine 1.7.16 + Nvidia 334.21

    View video on youtube.com


    On this wine 1.7.16 + Nvidia 334.21 runs much better than wine 1.7.15 + Nvidia 334.21

    ^_^
    mrdeathjr Apr 5, 2014
    for last this results with shadow warrior



    This is with Wine 1.7.15 + Nvidia 334.21


    View video on youtube.com



    And now with Wine 1.7.16 + Nvidia 334.21


    View video on youtube.com



    On this wine 1.7.16 + Nvidia 334.21 runs much better than wine 1.7.15 + Nvidia 334.21

    ^_^
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