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The Wine Development Release 1.7.24 Is Now Available.

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Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.24 bringing many new features and as many as 44 bugfixes.

A new issue of World Wine News was not available this time.

The few most interesting features introduced in this release:
  • Beginning of some DirectWrite classes implementation.
  • Initial wrapper dll for the packet capture library.
  • Some crypto improvements.
  • 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-1.7.24.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.24.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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mrdeathjr Aug 8, 2014
In this wine version steam still working, performance seems equal to 1.7.23 with same 343.13 drivers (punkbuster give more problems in this wine version in this test, maybe more later test other games with punkbuster)

View video on youtube.com

However in depencies for build this wine version ask for libpcap-dev

^_^
mrdeathjr Aug 9, 2014
This tests is with other punkbuster games with wine 1.7.24 + nvidia 343.13


Assassins Creed Brotherhood Multiplayer Test 2

View video on youtube.com


Assassins Creed Revelations Multiplayer

View video on youtube.com


FarCry 3 Multiplayer

View video on youtube.com


At simple seek punkbuster problem depend more of game where you can entry



Other titles too tested with Wine 1.7.24 + Nvidia 343.13



Saint Row The Third


View video on youtube.com


In this wine game textures have minor flickering compared with 1.7.23 but character rendering problems still continue


The Saboteur


View video on youtube.com


This title runs better than last time tested


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